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...views himself, he says, as "a cross between a monkey and a vulture, in a way playful like a monkey and purposeful like a vulture. I also look like them: my nose and eyes sharp like the bird, and my biting area protruding and the chin receding like that of a common macaque. In nature I am pretty much like that. That's how I draw myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1963 | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...that, in this instance, its friend has gone wild." As the week wore on and the Advertiser's fears became fact, the paper reached its inevitable conclusion: "It is very hard, be certain, for the Advertiser to say it, but the fact is that Governor Wallace made a monkey of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The South's New Voice | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...Monkey's Man. On and on John babbles in some of the earthiest colloquialisms ever to come out of Goldwater country. On justice: "Jesus Christ in the Jimson weed, damned if they don't expect the law to protect them from themselves-from confidence games, whorehouses, intoxicating liquor after Saturday midnight . . . and their own walking shadows." On sex: "A man ought to have two women, one for bed and one to see the Haviland china don't get chipped." On finance: "It ain't natural for money to breed . . . You get too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Coyote | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...exciting. Goodyear's frustrated commuter, with his summer treads spinning in a snowdrift, just edged out Purolator Oil Filter's Moonlight Ride-the one with the terrific looking girl who gets in under the car in her evening dress, removes a clogged oil filter with a monkey wrench, and smears oil sludge all over her date when she kisses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Clio, Muse of Huckstery | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...Note: The article on page four of today's paper is printed for its scientific value only. For years the Crimson Printing Company has allowed its pet monkey, Frank, to sit at the Linotype keyboard during lunch hour. This was the first readable type he has ever produced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Triumphs | 5/6/1963 | See Source »

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