Word: simianity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publicity-making: a suite at the Palmer House, press parties, guest appearances, etc. Soon he was back at NBC's Manhattan studios, mugging for the cameras, playing with toys (including a game of Russian roulette with an empty pistol), and sometimes merely looking like a weary-eyed, simple simian. He need do no more to earn his $250 a week, but Garroway has bigger plans afoot. "As soon as he can take direction properly," says Dave, "we plan to have J. Fred carry copy to the news desk...
...current Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Anatomist W. E. Le Gros Clark of Oxford adds new details to his theory that fossil primates (Proconsuls) found in Kenya show more manlike than apelike characteristics. They have no "simian shelf" (bony reinforcing) in the lower jaws, and their limbs suggest that they did not swing through the trees. Such ape traits were probably developed by specialization later than Proconsul's time...
Katzman promptly ordered a talent search for a new Tamba. Of dozens of simian applicants, he rejected all but six. With their sponsors, the finalists lumbered into the studio for screen tests, like prodigies led in by proud mothers. Two of the animal actors disqualified themselves at once-one by shying at the klieg lights, the other by "freezing," and "refusing to take direction." Then the remaining candidates went into the big test. Chief items: to retrieve bananas from chandeliers, walk through a maze of ash trays, drinking glasses, tables and boxes, hop into a pool (most chimps dread water...