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...cubed) that quadruplets would be born, last week happened to Mrs. Lawrence R. Wycoff, 30, of Sac City, Iowa. Promptly she named the three girls and a boy Lavern Darlene, Lavonne Darene. Lorraine Delaine and Lester Dean, hoped they would all grow up to rival Mary, Mona, Leota and Roberta Keys. 19. of Hollis. Okla.. famed because they reputedly are the only quadruplets ever to reach maturity. "The Bunch of Keys" graduated from high school last year, have just come home from Baylor University at Waco...
...borne quintuplets (see p. 39). At Yale's 200-acre Anthropoid Experiment Station in Orange Park, Fla. last week was another mother who, with a record unique in biological annals, might well have been jealous of the hullabaloo over the Canadian woman and her offspring. Her name is Mona and she is a 21-year-old chimpanzee. At Orange Park on June 26, 1933, she gave birth to fraternal twins, male & female. The father was an 11-year-old brought from Africa by a sailor. Mona had spent 15 years on Mme Rosalia Abreu's famed ape farm...
Single great ape births in captivity are rare. As far as Robert Mearns Yerkes, Yale professor of psychobiology and director of the Experiment Station, can discover from records, Mona is the first great ape of any kind ever known to produce more than one baby at a time.* He has seen chimpanzee ''twins'' in sideshows but the only proprietor he could question confessed deception when Dr. Yerkes told him he was a scientist. What goes on in the jungle Dr. Yerkes does not claim to know. But when a wild female ape is seen carrying...
...other picture "All Men Are Enemies" introduces to American audiences two new faces. Hugh Williams and Mona Barrie, Certainly their debut with Helen Twelvetrees is not auspicious. The story is just another separation by the World War, of two lovers, with everything coming out happily in the end with a fadeout on the shore of an Italian lake...
...shape hunched through a side door of the Cathedral of St. Bavon. Ghent and its canals slept on. Next morning it woke to find a panel of one of the world's most famed religious paintings wrenched away-the most sensational art robbery since the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Nobody today remembers Jodocus Vijdts, Lord of Pamele, but every art connoisseur knows the polyptich which it is said Hubert van Eyck painted for him in the 15th Century and Jan van Eyck, the painter's brother, finished. The brilliant, realistic twelve-paneled...