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...story is petite, passionate Mrs. Esther Jack, a stage designer with a grown daughter and a nebulous husband somewhere in the Park Avenue background. Hero is not Eugene Gant but a presumably new character named George ("Monk") Webber. Unlike Eugene, he is of medium height, pug-nosed, simian-shaped. His antecedents are carefully different from Gant's. But no disguise will hide a Thomas Wolfe hero...
...only hope that if I call a friend a "Usamian" he won't think I said, "You simian." HARRY H. PIERSON Washington...
There were no volunteers. But Manhattan sportswriters suggested saloon-keeping, beer-drinking Tony Galento, first-rate heavyweight who is just half Gargantua's size (230 lb.), as a fair match for the simian. At his saloon in Orange, N. J., Tony Galento "deeply regretted" the suggestion. Meanwhile, in the merry ribbing that followed, no one had taken the trouble to look in his Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he would have discovered that a gorilla has 13 pairs of ribs, one pair more than...
...mate from the phone, pulled frantically at the cage's bars. With a sharp cough-like cry, Castang cursed George. George cursed Castang. Castang, with a show of temper, roared a warning that drove both George & Josephine cringing to a corner. The trainer then laughed with giggle-like simian laughter and the conversation closed...
...picketing, was refused by Judge Leander B. Faber. Davega then discontinued its advertising in the Eagle. In another virtually identical case, the Guild lost. One Mile Reif's beauty parlor which advertised in the Eagle was picketed. One of the picketers dressed as a monkey and went through simian antics as he marched back & forth carrying a sign "I was once a beautiful woman." Another picketer shouted: "Don't patronize Mademoiselle