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Died. Walter White, 69, who helped set off the sensational "monkey trial" of John T. Scopes in Dayton, Tenn. in 1925; of a heart attack; in Dayton. Superintendent of Schools White agreed with Scopes, high school biology teacher in Dayton, that the state's law against teaching evolution was absurd. To get it annulled, Scopes stood trial for teaching the doctrine, White swore out the warrant. As Lawyer Clarence Darrow (for evolution) and William Jennings Bryan (against it) argued, the issue of intellectual freedom v. bigotry caught the interest of the world. Scopes lost, was fined $100. The fine...
...Communists also had money: brand-new piasters, off a printing press in one of the towns they had captured. Neither the Thais nor the Muongs are a highly developed people-but they know good money from bad. They called the Red piasters "monkey money." Discontent broke out among the Thais and Muongs, and Ter-Sarkissoff's undercover agents made the most...
Those who traveled less than Casanova embellished their drawing rooms with fragile fancies: a clock mounted on a chariot drawn along the mantelpiece by galloping gilt horses, or a monkey with a lorgnette in one hand and a tiny cigar in the other, smoking with bestial relish, or a dueling pistol which, with a pull of the trigger, released a tiny singing bird...
After playing "Monkey Song," Carmichael started "Stardust," very quietly. He played it through, and got people to sing with him, and then he stopped. They cheered as he walked out; there was no beer left, and the floor was covered with the remains of potato chips and pretzels. Mr. Carmichael smiled again, briefly, as he went through the door and headed for his next show...
Carmichael finally seated himself at the plane and banged out "Hong Kong Blues," "The Monkey Song," "Barbara," and everybody joined in for his "Stardust" finale...