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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 27

The Ape in Our House This is the book that shocked the three-year-old experiment: The critics. A research psychologist baby ape is given all the loving and his wife adopted a three-day- care of human parents; pretty old baby female chimpanzee dresses, lessons how to talk and are bringing it up a5 one would conduct itself. December Reader' s bring up a child. Here is an Digest brings a condensation from account to date of this incredible an unusual and fascinating booka ALSO IN DECEMBER READER'S DIGEST What" Kind of Person Are You? Most The Power of ACTH: Called by scien- people hope they will grow old tists the boss hormone of the happily. But few realise that as whole human and animal world; we get older any faults of per- ACTH controls the ills & fflicting sonality (selfishness; bad temper, humanity from the cradle to the talking too much) become more grave: Long an experiment; it 1s ingrained. more obvious to others: now giving magical relief to Dr. Smiley Blanton and Rev. rheumatoid arthritics, hopeless Norman Peale analyse these asthmatics~and mercifully speed- defects of personality in middle- ing old people'$ recovery from aged people-_tell how anyone can injuries. Paul de Kruif, well- cultivate traits to win the love known medical writer; reports on and respect of family and friends: how science is learning about the wonderful hormone that The Case of the Third Twin. Mme. promises S0 much to mankind: Joye loved her twin boys though A Doctor as Near as Your Telephone. they were oddly unalike Mme: What if you were in a strange Vatter loved her son who looked city and suddenly taken ill-or if more a Joye than & Vatter. The your child swallowed poison and fantastic but true story of a you couldn't reach your doctor? maternity hospital mix-up dis A report on how the American covered only after the boys had Medical Association S plan of lived with the wrong mothers for listing "emergency" doctors with seven years. A poignant drama 'phone operators is saving lives; of real life and how it worked out: needless suffering in 452 U.S: citieg: READ AND ENJOY DECEMBER Readers Digest 31 stimulating, topical articles of lasting interest only 1/6 all Booksellers and Newsagents