Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody paid any mind the morning a throaty Broadway actress gulped down some repairs for the damage of the night before and strode about her villa in the buff with a pet monkey perched on her shoulder. Only an outsider-a Western Union boy-was shocked. When he delivered a telegram, the boy took one look at the apparition bowing low before him, shoved the message into the monkey's paw and fled...
...with Gross's "leukemia virus" got solid tumors, mainly in the parotid (salivary) glands. (Dr. Heller's theory: the Gross material had contained two viruses.) Dr. Stewart teamed with the NIH's Dr. Bernice E. Eddy to grow the solid-tumor virus in tissue cultures of monkey kidney cells (as polio virus is grown to make Salk vaccine...
...pulled at my eyelids to find out what they concealed? I couldn't be certain about this." These titillating opening sentences promise events sinister, portentous or at least symbolic. But "he" turns out to be nothing more alarming than a pet monkey who had wandered into the visitor's hut in a game reserve in Kenya. The reader is soon introduced to the monkey's owner - a precocious ten-year-old girl who can converse familiarly with animals and gets no back talk...
...crossbreed Lolita with Rima, the bird-girl, and to enhance the result with the mystical animal overtones of Romain Gary's The Roots of Heaven. He professes to see Patricia as a study in "the passage from innocence to non-innocence." But the reader who, like the monkey, pulls at Kessel's eyelids is apt to find they conceal nothing except what meets...
...case of 11 oz. Monkey Baker was simpler and happier. She hailed from the jungle near Iquitos, Peru. Her electrodes were successfully removed under local anesthesia by a Navy doctor. The Navy hopes to breed her in a year or so, and examine her offspring for genetic effects of space...