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Travis the Menace: The Family Saga of Travis the Chimp

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He was the most famous ape in America. But to really understand a chimp, you have to know his mother.

Travis holding Sandy’s grandson, Andrew. Photo: Courtesy of Di Mare Pastry Shop Throughout her life, Sandy Herold had long, straight hair so black it almost looked wet. She wore it down below her shoulders, her bangs cut straight across. She applied bright-pink lipstick and copious amounts of bronzer. She wore skintight size-7 jeans. She spoke with a strange accent, a New York–New England hybrid, and spent her entire life in Stamford, Connecticut. She was born in 1938 to a Jewish mother and Italian father who operated a popular bakery downtown and eventually built an unassuming shingled house

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