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...York Post, sad-eyed Jimmy Cannon has also come closer than any other sportswriter to taking Runyon's place. His favorite columnar character is Two Head Charlie, a thoughtful horse player, who talks like this: "You take a real ugly bum . . . with a face a monkey would be ashamed of. Let him get a shave and a haircut and meet a broad. What's the first thing the broad says to him, she says you look cute tonight . . . I admit I look like a kangaroo . . . But every broad I take out tells me I'm cute. Soon...
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...biggest difficulties facing researchers in search of a polio vaccine has been the fact that polio virus could not be grown in a laboratory without rare and expensive nutrients for the virus to feed on (e.g., monkey testicles). Last week Dr. Herald R. Cox reported that Lederle Laboratories has found a way to grow the Lansing strain of virus in fertile hens' eggs, has already made a vaccine which works on monkeys...
Died. John Washington Butler, 76, onetime Tennessee state representative who authored the state's 1925 anti-evolution bill; near Lafayette, Tenn. The Butler Bill set off the explosive "monkey trial" of Biology Teacher John Scopes and furnished a stage for the rhetorical fireworks of Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan v. Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow...
Ponderously written by Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer and I.A.L. Diamond, and noisily directed by Howard Hawks, Monkey Business has some amusing monkeyshines. But the picture's simple-minded running gag wears thin long before the elixir of youth wears out for Gary and Ginger. Also prominently on hand: Marilyn Monroe as a pneumatic private secretary to whom Boss Coburn hands a sheaf of copy with the instruction: "Find someone to type this...