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Gestures in which Darwin displayed greatest interest were: 1) monkey-like "contraction of muscles around the eyes just before crying"; and 2) pouting. "A dear young lady near here," he wrote, "plagued a very young child for my sake, till he cried and I saw the eyebrows for a second or two beautifully oblique, just before the torrent of tears began...
Research gathered by Author Ickes to support his contention is impressive, comes largely from such unimpeachable sources as Editor & Publisher and from newspapermen's own writings. Thereby Mr. Ickes makes himself a monkey. For Ickes quotes so many criticisms of the press by newsmen themselves that he overturns his own argument, shows that, if many publishers diligently suppress unpleasant facts, others with equal diligence uncover them. He offers no panacea to correct the abuses he recites, piously admits that "We cannot control the press without losing our essential liberties...
...Rivera; and his third wife, Frida Kahlo Rivera, 29, svelte German-Mexican modernist painter, classed by Diego among the four or five best in the world, owner of the Coyoacán haven where Leon Trotsky spent two years in exile; in Mexico City. Explained Muralist Rivera, his pet monkey perched on his shoulder: "There is no change in the magnificent relations between us. We are doing it in order to improve Frida's legal position . . . purely a matter of legal convenience in the spirit of modern times...
...Atlas of Hollywood, bear-necked Cinemactor Victor McLaglen, 52, was sued for nonpayment of a doctor's bill for "monkey gland shots" given to him periodically since 1935. "Well," he hemmed, "the doctor said they would improve my complexion...
...amalgam of arithmetic and intuition, last week held: 1) that unless Fair attendance looks up, the amusement area as a whole may lose $5,000,000 before closing; 2) that any profits worth talking about so far had been rung up by three concessionaires: Frank Buck's monkey mountain, Jungleland; Life Saver's Parachute Jump; Billy Rose's Aquacade. Housed in the Marine Amphitheatre in the New York State Building, at the gateway to the amusement section and smack across the Fair from the Trylon & Perisphere Theme Centre, the Aquacade and its huge electric sign last week...