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Divorced. Author Edgar Rice ("Tarzan") Burroughs, 66; by Florence Gilbert Burroughs, 36, his second wife; in Los Angeles. She testified he told her he wanted to be alone...
Howie Johnson, the Eli captain, who is considered the best all-around swimmer in the country, will be trying for Johnny "Tarzan" Weismuller's world record of 51 seconds in the 100 yard free style and Jack Medica's N.C.A.A. time of 2 minutes, 9.6 seconds in the 220. That he will succeed in his attempt is a good bet for he has already been as low as 51 flat for the 100 in a relay this season and has hit 2 minutes 9.7 seconds...
...sheltered youngsters is Decca's current children's list: Tarzan of the Apes and Superman's Christmas Adventure. Both Decca and Victor offer recordings of Dickens' Christmas Carol; in Decca's, the Scrooge is Ronald Colman. Columbia puts out Prokofieff's musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf. The music is well handled by Leopold Stokowski and his All American Youth Orchestra, but Basil Rathbone's narration lacks the imposing resonance of Richard Hale in the earlier Victor...
...putrescence through a monocle. "To the real artist it was almost necessary to be blasphemous or mad." Indeed, "the 19th Century left the defense of primary values to madmen." Much of Allott's thesis is summed up in that arresting sentence. And pointing to such diverse phenomena as Tarzan and T. S. Eliot, he argues that 19th-Century romanticism persists to this...
Sued for Divorce. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 65, tireless biographer of Tarzan; by Florence Gilbert Dearholt Burroughs, 36, his second wife; in Los Angeles...