Word: cheetah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journals as well as the lay press, the botfly has been widely publicized as the fastest thing on earth. It has been credited with speeds over 800 m.p.h.-faster than the fastest airplanes (over 400 m.p.h.), than the fastest birds (over 100 m.p.h.), than the fastest land animal, the cheetah (70 m.p.h.). Most of this publicity seems to have sprung from the reports of Dr. Charles Henry Tyler Townsend, 74, an Ohio-born entomologist who now lives in Brazil. Although the flight of botflies was visible to Dr. Townsend only as a "brownish blur," he estimated their speeds...
Typical shots: Tarzan nuzzling contentedly with his lithely amphibian mate in their rock-bound swimming pool, undulating into an underwater kiss for a fadeout. Best all-round performer: Cheetah, the Chimp...
...been left her. They launch a safari under the guidance of a bring-'em-back-alive hunter named Captain Fry who plots to capture Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller). After the usual adventures, they find Tarzan and Jane, move in with them in their treetop "town house," whose butler is Cheetah, the chimpanzee. Cheetah understands Jane's words far better than does Tarzan. Though they have been living together for four years, Tarzan has been able to learn, only a few phrases of English. As a yodeler he is in better voice than ever. Inevitable develop ments include a fight...
Cinemaddicts with good memories of MGM's two previous Tarzan pictures, though they may feel that they have seen Tarzan Escapes before, will find it richly entertaining. Good shots: Tarzan's elephant-power elevator; Cheetah laughing; the Ganelonis ingeniously tearing a captive limb from limb...
Jesse Owens of the animal world is the cheetah, a species of Asiatic wildcat which can run 70 m.p.h. for distances up to 100 yards. For longer stretches the world's speed champion is the U. S. pronghorn antelope, which can maintain 60 m.p.h. for several miles, 35 m.p.h. almost indefinitely. Rancher Charles J. Belden of Pitchfork, Wyo. once chased a herd of antelope 27 miles in 45 minutes in his automobile. Nearly an eighth of the 40,000 pronghorn antelopes in the U. S. roam over Rancher Belden's 200.000 acres in the Meeteetsee Valley. Few years...