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...Esther Williams, and Rita told me she thinks Esther is a good swimmer. Later on I asked Esther about Rita, and she said Rita is a good dancer . . . Curt Jurgens had a simple party at Cap Ferrat-twelve guests, the butler, the chauffeur, the cook, the secretary, one monkey, five parrots, and two dogs . . . Elsa Maxwell, looking like a weather-beaten hill, stood in the lobby of the Excelsior under a big straw hat which made it hard to tell what was front and what was back...
Across France last week, doctors were trying to make a monkey of the government-controlled health-insurance system. A patient might have nothing more serious than a cut finger, but the doctor would fill in his form showing "grave lacerations, permanent incapacity probable.'' A Paris arrondissement was thrown into uproar by the report of a case of yaws, which proved to be a physician's whimsical entry for la grippe. In many areas, coroners had to invoke police aid to force doctors to make out death certificates-and quite a few were signed "Paul Bacon...
Empty Franks. The least surprising fact of Tom Parker's life is that it began in a traveling carnival which his parents worked. Orphaned as a child, he worked for his uncle's Great Parker Pony Circus, had his own pony-and-monkey act when he was in his teens. Barker, merry-go-round operator, candied-apple dipper, ice shaver for snow cones and general man-about-the-midway, he once took a job as a dogcatcher in Tampa, Fla., where he gave away hundreds of puppies to kids...
...Monkey Tricks. In San Francisco, five coeds from San Francisco City College were arrested after climbing a fence in the zoo, romping with the monkeys...
...followed by the disastrous Cutter incident (TIME, May 9 1955 et seq.}, is now twice shy about licensing an oral vaccine. Main concern is that the weakened viruses sometimes revert, in the human stomach and intestines, to a form that is more likely to cause paralysis in test monkeys. Baylor University's Dr. Joseph L. Melnick settled a years-long argument with conclusive proof of this. But nobody knows whether the monkey test (involving direct injection into the brain or spinal fluid) is a good indicator of what might happen...