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...arrived in the U.S. in 1948: "It takes about two years to realize what America is like. Not the things you can buy, but the things you can say. I can say something about President Eisenhower, and nobody will lock me up. Felix, he is just like a monkey put in a box and released somewhere in Alaska...
...boiling, Writers Salomon and Richard Hanser lost or overlooked some of the decade's juicy memories, e.g., the Scopes "monkey" trial, marathon dancing, flagpole sitting, Billy Sunday, the bathing beauty, Florida's real-estate boom, the Sacco-Vanzetti case-even (unaccountably) the advent of radio broadcasting. But the '20s had flavor to spare, and Jazz Age catches the tangy essences that should send oldtimers on a sentimental binge and plunge the younger set into wistful incredulity...
...reasonably enlightened audience can agree on. The argument of playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee is simple: freedom of thought is better than bigotry. Although this point may not appear overly original, the two writers give it considerable dramatic intensity by recreating the celebrated 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial," where a small town school teacher was brought into court for teaching the "subversive" doctrine of evolution...
...Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler. Since last June, when he defeated the Clements-Wetherby machine in a bitter fight over control of the state party, Happy has been as determined as ever to wreck Wetherby's cause. Although Happycrat Chandler now denies that he is ready to sling a monkey wrench at his own party, his monkeyshines prove otherwise; e.g., he has neglected to instruct his 20,000 state employees to 1) contribute the traditional 2% of their salaries to the Democratic campaign fund, 2) help get out the vote. Last week, though he made it a point to greet...
...building's imperceptible vibration. Even more remarkable than the feat of putting it together is Sculptor Lippold's assurance that he can disassemble The Sun, pack it away in handy-sized packing crates. ¶ In Minneapolis the Institute of Arts had on view a 21 in. bronze Monkey and Her Baby, by 74-year-old Pablo Picasso. To make his ,lonkey, Picasso took a child's toy auto for a head, car spring for a tail and a machined iron sphere for a body, shaped in the rest with clay. The end product: a heavy-footed baboon...