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Died. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 74, multimillionaire creator of Tarzan; in Encino, Calif. Since 1914, his 23 Tarzan books have sold nearly 30 million copies in 58 languages and dialects. Other sources of income: royalties on 26 movies that netted him over $5,000,000; comic strips once published in 400...
Nevertheless, by last week underdog Argosy was barking on True's trail, as if it were about to bite. Argosy Editor Jerry Mason, 36, claimed that his January issue had topped the 1,000,000 mark in sales (the guarantee: 750,000). Like True, Argosy was once a pulp...
The dialogue is a lot less convincing, though sometimes a lot more fun. Bits of it hew more or less to lines out of the Bible ("If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have answered my riddle"). But most of it is Biblical ersatz with an...
In Detroit, City Treasurer Albert E. Cobo finished handily ahead of ten other candidates in the city's nonpartisan mayoralty primary, seemed a sure bet for election in November. An ex-salesman for the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., Cobo was called in to straighten out the city's...
Granted that the Tarzan movies do not resemble Edgar Rice Burroughs' intriguing books too closely, is It still fair to say that Tarzan and Jane are not married [TIME, July 25]?