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...with his eerie ee-ya-ee call the chewing-gum flavor of her pronounced Brooklyn accent. This new Tarzan is lean, 6-ft. 2-in., Olympic Champion Glenn Morris, summoned to the role to replace Johnny Weissmuller. Actor Morris, who heroically combines the facial qualities of Broadway's Burgess Meredith and Hollywood's Harpo Marx, has the miming ability of neither. What he has is the 1936 Olympic decathlon title. His costume: no leopard skin, but a serviceable breechclout, a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...case of F. William Burgess 1L, there is no apparent reason for the disappearance. An honor student, on the dean's list, Gould had been in good spirits; his college friends say that he has been of a calm, unworried disposition, has been in good health and good scholastic standing, and that he apparently had no reason for going away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Vanishes in New Disappearance Case; Witness Claims He Saw Burgess Drown in Charles | 1/13/1938 | See Source »

...third and lower class hotel, Ball discovered that a Mr. Burgess was registered from Philadelphia as a representative of a firm in Cincinnati, where the law student lives. Ball was unable to find the lodger named Burgess, showed a picture to the clerk, who said it might be the man, since he hadn't seen him with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Believe Burgess Found in West Virginia As Newshawk Sports Him In Lunchroom | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

Ball is almost certain that this man is not the missing Burgess, but intends to check it this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Believe Burgess Found in West Virginia As Newshawk Sports Him In Lunchroom | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

Positive I saw William Burgess having lunch at local restaurant. Upon realization of identity returned to restaurant and he had gone. Showed picture without explanation to two walters. Both identified it instantly. Said this is third day he had eaten there at odd hours. If Burgess is unfound will try further to locate suspect and positively identify. (signed) Harold W. Ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Believe Burgess Found in West Virginia As Newshawk Sports Him In Lunchroom | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

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