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...there a strawberry festival, and the odd hog-calling contest comes into the picture too. And you represent the sponsors of the pageant. This year that would be Gillette, American Greetings Corp., McDonald's and Nestlé. Jacque Mercer (1949) once told an interviewer: "You could take an orangutan, and, with a year's training, it would be a perfectly adequate Miss America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Miss is a Hit | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...exuded an unmistakable animal magnetism. So now TV's trend venders have bestowed their ultimate accolade on Mr. Smith, 12: a show of his own with his name featured in the title, no less. In the NBC comedy series premiering this month, the 4-ft., 165-lb. orangutan plays a superintelligent primate who works for a Government-funded think tank in Washington, D.C. "Although physically still an orangutan, he has the mental capabilities of an Einstein," explains Mr. Smith Co-Creator Ed Weinberger. "Because of that, he becomes a valuable resource to this country, eventually getting involved in everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 12, 1983 | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...with a salacious twist. The word censored in the title was intended to turn viewers into video voyeurs. The host, Dick Clark, slick and eternally adolescent, sniggered as clips were shown of an elephant's trunk probing a zoo warden's crotch and an overly affectionate orangutan tweaking a newswoman's breast.. On a clip from Hollywood Squares, the late Paul Lynde replied to a question about what can make a monkey cry: "Learning that Tarzan swings both ways." This was hardly a blooper, and considering the double-entendres that Lynde regularly got away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: What Was Lucy's Baby's Name? | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...years' examination of the fossil have confirmed that ramapithecus--traditionally thought to be the ancestor of human beings--is really the evolutionary father of the orangutan. The discovery leaves a 14-million-year gap in knowledge about man's lineage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track . . . | 2/20/1982 | See Source »

...squinted through cage corners and down the dark paths toward the Small Mammal House, I saw a man-shaped figure, loping more or less on all fours, turn the corner by the Monkey Complex-followed by another just like him, though not as thick in the chest. The orangutan and the lowland gorilla, in cahoots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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