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Johnny Weissmuller, 43, for 17 years the screen's ranking Tarzan, conceded to his middle-aging middle, shed his breechclout for a bush-jacket in a new movie called Jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...best advertised native films wonder, seriously, whether he has ever seen a real moving picture before. These Russian classics shine against the cheap, easy sheen of most films (and much of this film) as nobly as a battle flag against the patriotism worn by a chorus girl for a breechclout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 28, 1943 | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Ever since India turned down Britain's offer of post-war independence, the U.S. press has cracked down on India's political leaders. A rash of cartoons has shown Gandhi as a loony bag of bones bent on balking the Japanese by lying flat in his breechclout. Solemn editorials have smeared the Indians. Typical was that of the Washington Post: "The responsibility for the failure must be placed squarely at the doors of the All-India Congress party. Its leaders are men deficient in statesmanship . . . petty, confused in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: After Honduras, What? | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...near Toronto. Food faddist and exercise enthusiast for some 30 years, he said "God has provided the means by which we can always be well," lived chiefly on fruits, nuts and grain. Turning his faddery into a business, he manufactured wide-selling cereal foods, broadcast his picture in a breechclout. Canadians knew best his "Roman Meal"; U.S. citizens knew two other products whose trade names Alexander Woollcott shudderfully disclosed: "Lishus," and "Bekus Puddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 28, 1941 | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...reforms him. In four days, with the help of coconut milk and Koko (her trained chimpanzee), Miss Lamour has Mr. Preston totally abstaining in a brightly flowered breechclout. In addition, Typhoon provides a submarine full of mutineers which dives with open hatches, a yacht load of visiting Polynesian pirates, a raging jungle fire that is quenched by a super-colossal tidal wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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