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...monkey off my back...
Willard concedes that only a few of the 38,000 quadriplegic Americans may want to live with a monkey, just as only about 5% of all bund people rely on guide dogs. But she believes a sufficient need exists for less costly live-in assistance. By summer, Willard hopes to obtain foundation funding so she can prepare more of the little organ-grinder monkeys as helpers for the handicapped...
...young writer had started a new life. He planned to marry again: Francine Faure, whose father had also died at the Marne. When Francine's sister observed that Albert's ears stuck out of his head in simian fashion, Francine replied defensively, "The monkey is the animal closest to man." Three years later, the monkey was famous. Meursault, the anti-hero of Camus's first novel, The Stranger, characterized the Absurd Man who lives outside of sentiment or tradition: "Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure...
...more than 30 years, through three wars and half a dozen presidencies, Bernstein occupied his corner. But only in the spring and summer. Winters, the Monkey Man would disappear. In 1972 an envious beggar told a newspaper that Bernstein was rich (he was reputed to make up to $150 a day) and had invested his wealth in Florida real estate. Bernstein rushed to the newspaper to complain. "If I had money and property," he protested, "do you think I'd be sitting out in the cold...
...Pensacola, however, the Monkey Man was known as a prosperous businessman who wore sporty clothes and walked about on two artificial legs. He liked to read the Wall Street Journal and talk of his travels to Israel, Greece and Spain. He owned an $80,000 building, containing a disco called the Red Garter, a home worth $30,000, and had $16,000 in cash, $46,000 in Washington checking accounts and $365,000 in a bond account with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Then why did he go on begging? Said his banker: "I think it was a lifelong habit...