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Johnny Weissmuller, whose waist measurement outgrew his Tarzan role, was forced to keep in trim for his Jungle Jim role, even with clothes on. The incentive: if he weighs in for a picture at more than 190 pounds, his contract makes him forfeit $5,000 for each overweight pound up to ten. For his second film, after a night in a Turkish bath, he tipped the scales at a safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Coach Butch Jordan added another worry to his growing list yesterday when Dave Coombs quit the team because he is 17 pounds overweight. Joe Kozol will wrestle at 121 Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Select Claflin to Replace Ray in Captaincy | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

Chain-Talker. In grease paint or out, Tallulah is always on stage and the curtain is always up. No longer a great beauty, and overweight for her 5 ft. 3, she is still magnetic. She is almost never silent or still. Says Actor John Emery, her ex-husband: "She is the only woman I ever knew who could carry on a conversation, listen to the radio, read a book and do her hair at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...fine contempt discussing the Metropolitan Opera Company, which he claims has horribly stunted the growth of American opera. His early Tanglewood work amazed the New York critics, who have since learned that an evening of opera need not be four hours of vocalizing by a group of overweight prima-donnas...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Opera Unlimited | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

...overweight and under-conditioned football squad from Leicester Junior College got pushed up and down Soldiers Field last Saturday and left after a 42 to 0 shellacking from the Crimson Jayvees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvees Trample Leicester, 42 to 0 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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