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Moliere, Too. What gnawed most at her ego was a reviewer's remark that her stage manner would make an angel swoon, but her words would make a monkey blush. Devoting most of her last four decades to getting on the side of the angels, she scoured libraries and chateaux to add Crusaders' lays and a centuries-old Vie du Christ cycle to her repertory, which she performed on academic platforms ranging from the University of Vienna to Bryn Mawr...
...there a trace of baby fat still lingered. But the 52 young ladies who met in Dallas for a crack at the Miss Teenage America title were long on animal spirits. Miss Teenage Tampa appropriately won the turtle race with her pet "Knight," while dozens of girls danced the monkey and the bird. Miss Teenage Memphis disapproved, saying: "I feel I cannot live for God and participate in the vulgarity of some of the modern dances." When the feathers settled, the winner was a gleeful soprano, Carolyn Mignini, 17. a Baltimore oriole who will use her $10,000 prize...
...Iron Duke himself; Colonel Kelly of the First Foot Guards, a grand dandy so proud of his precious, gleaming boots that he burned to death trying to save them from a fire; and muscular Dan Mackinnon, who "used to amuse his friends by creeping over the furniture like a monkey." In Lisbon with Lord Byron, Mackinnon spied two nude Portuguese beauties at their morning ablutions across from his hotel, but he was horrified to see that they used no toothbrushes. He sent them some, and was even more horrified when the girls used them to brush their hair...
Barbara Jones, a freshman at Wheaton College, discovered that the ring was missing at about 9:30 p.m. She thinks she may have lost it while dancing the "monkey," but, a careful search after the dance failed to produce the ring...
Grasping the Opportunity. Through the week Humphrey carried the burden of infighting and partisanship to which he had been assigned. In Chicago, he accepted an enormous, imitation monkey wrench from the Plumbers Union, promised that he would use it "to put the screws on the Republicans." During a three-city swing through Indiana, he derided Barry Goldwater's view of freedom as "the freedom to remain un educated or ignorant, the freedom to be sick, the freedom to stay unemployed, the freedom to be hungry. Some philosophy! Some freedom!" Reacting to G.O.P. charges that his longtime association with...