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...Land Act"), was once married to a peer, but has come down to being the wife of the dim, unemployable Jeavons ("He was something left over from the war"). One could meet "absolutely anybody" at Lady Molly's, including her cats, her "four principal dogs," and her monkey called Maisky (after the Soviet ambassador). "Not long ago Lord Amesbury looked in on his way to a Court ball, wearing knee breeches and the Garter. Lady Molly was giving the vet a meal she had cooked herself...
Died. Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 63, Russian satirist, who was at the top of the 1946 Soviet purge list of nonconforming authors; in Leningrad. The work singled out by the purgers was Adventures of a Monkey, the story of a marmoset that escapes from a zoo hit by a fascist bomb, awkwardly adapts to the Soviet society on the outside, at one point decides: "Oh, dear, it was silly to leave the zoo. You could breath more peacefully in the cage...
Between Philip Wylie and Sigmund Freud, there's not much left of masculinity. Women have taken our jobs, our trousers, and our initiative. They've gone to war--from policewomen to WACs. Slide rules, monkey wrenches, automobiles, and the vote belong to them, not to mention high society and the supermarket. This is crisis...
Premier Kishi, with big-business backing, is in no mood to tolerate Socialist monkey business, nor is he apt to be too tolerant of the intriguing that has gone on inside his own Cabinet and party. Standing in front of a row of potted plants, Kishi pointedly remarked to a reporter: "These plants were all selected by a master gardener, but some are not perfect under the surface. Who knows but there may be still two or three like that in my new Cabinet...
Last month the profitable monkey business was monkeyed with. The Indian government ruled that only monkeys weighing more than 6 Ibs. (v. the old 4-to-6-lb. standard) can be shipped, and only at a rate of five a crate, compared to the previous dozen. The government's official view was that smaller monkeys are not necessary for polio vaccine. But unofficially, the reason was increasing religious pressure from India's monkey deifiers. plus a dark fear that other countries really use the monkeys for rocket and radiation research. Whatever the reason, by last week the market...