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...back at him in a gentle singsong. Tall Timakanā, "the leg-bone ghost," has big, swollen knees that beat together when he walks and make a noise like "ti-ye-wo, ti-ye-wo." The aé lives in the trees "like a very large spider monkey" and has "red hair, red eyes, a blue penis, and blue bones." Of course all this crew is active only at night, when the stars-"which are attached to the sky by a little stalk" -push out their heads, led by Grandfather Cotton (the Southern Cross) and Grandfather Many Things (the Pleiades...
...Boat and Outdoor Show saw what some say was the biggest collection of new boats on the eastern sea-board and were enlightened in the arts of the misery whip and the six pound double-bitted axe. They watched a guide cook dinner over a light bulb, and a monkey row a boat. They proved, certainly, that private boating is well on the way to becoming the nation's biggest effort, and that the people are numerous who see money with their dreams...
...golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for it, is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows; there is little romance in their jobs and they often become upset. Sometimes they even slug law-abiding citizens...
About 8:40 one morning last week, Warren Deane Thomas, a 26-year-old Ohio State University graduate student and employee of the Columbus Zoo, walked into the monkey house to feed the animals. When he reached the cage of Christina, a nine-year-old, 280-lb. gorilla, he found her squatting listlessly in a far corner, indifferent to the hard-boiled egg he held. Then he saw why: on the floor squirmed a baby gorilla-probably the first ever born in captivity...
...Count Casimir Poliatoffsky" poses as a Polish nobleman and simultaneously claims to be descended from the Maya gods and the lost tribes of Israel, but he is actually half-Mexican. He once flopped as the star of a roller-skating show in Italy. Now he is a skilled grease monkey in a ship's engine room, and this uneven, offbeat first novel begins when one of the count's shipmates takes him home for dinner on a shore leave in New Orleans in the early 1900s. The shipmate's sister Hilda, an ash-blonde icicle, melts visibly...