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...friendly attitude ("Miss X's class is just like one big happy family; I am not afraid of school any more"); 2) consideration for the individual ("She doesn't make a monkey out of you before everybody"); 3) patience ("She never gives up until you are able to do it"); 4) wide interests ("She brings in outside ideas and helps us to apply what we learn in our everyday lives"); 5) good manners ("There was something about his voice and his smile that made me feel good clear down to my stomach"); 6) fairness ("She gives you exactly...
...industrialist (John Archer), a retired general (Tom Powers) and a dimwit radio operator (Dick Wesson)-float weirdly around the inside of the rocket until they put on magnetized boots. Then they can walk on the walls. When a radar antenna jams, they go out on the hull in pressurized monkey suits to make repairs while traveling at seven miles a second. The scientist slips off into space, and his traveling companions stage a fantastic rescue that dramatizes the strange laws of spatial physics. Later, the explorers bound in seven-league strides along the cracked, cratered moonscape where gravity is only...
Enormous crowds began jamming into the monkey house to stare at the stricken monster. Within a week, almost a quarter of a million people passed by his cage. At first it seemed a morbid and pitiful performance. But gradually it became apparent that Bushman was delighted by the shuffling, elbowing, staring people. He began to regain his appetite, soon was consuming 22 Ibs. of fruit, bread and milk. Last week he was able to get up and count the house. Veterinarians decided that Bushman, though enfeebled, might live on for months, or even years. But even if he died sooner...
John Phillip Sousa must have been born on a Saturday afternoon in the spring time, for his music never sounded better. When the Band played "that song about the monkey," the little boy in the second row squirmed off his mother's lap, picked up an abandoned umbrella and started to march. "I won't be a garbage collector after all," he said. An old man took off his black hat and wiped his forehead with his handkerchief; his newspaper fell off the chair but he didn't notice...
...chagrin . . ." His battles with the censors, one of which caused him to invade Boston and which also caused Felix Caragianes, the Square newsdealer, to be arrested for selling Mencken's "Mercury," are no less admirable today than yesterday. Mr. Kemler's recounting of the Boston incident and the Scopes "Monkey Trial" (he contends that "perhaps" Scopes was influenced by Mencken's writing) makes lively reading...