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Look. Up in the vines. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Sup-. No, wait. It's none other than that good ol' Charlie Brown of the woods, Tarzan, and the hero of the apes (né Lord Greystoke) is coming back in a new book due in March. Forgotten until recently, Tarzan and the Madman is the 25th in the series, was chiseled out by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1940, ten years before his death. It tells how a downed pilot who looks like Tarzan has amnesia and naturally concludes that...
Give Yourself. In search of relief, much of this college generation revels n Tarzan movies, aims to try LSD, and 'shacks up" on weekends as a matter of routine. It talks about sex-"the ultimate in communication"-so frankly hat Berkeley students recently asked he dispensary to please dispense contraceptives. Harvard's current flap over abuse of rules for girls visiting boys' rooms is hardly confined to Cambridge...
Sweat & Showmanship. Behind his dark glasses and glittering arsenal of horns, goateed Kirk sweats aplenty, with instinctive showmanship and passion. When the steam is up, he is likely to blow a shrill Tarzan victory call on a siren-whistle that could be mistaken for a hunting horn. He delights in the unexpected. In the middle of a flute solo, he will pop a child's plastic song flute into his right nostril and trill out a brief duet. For a performer who took up the flute only three years ago, Kirk plays it with astonishing virtuosity. He can begin...
...What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants coming? A. "Here come the elephants...
Back to Quiz. NBC will also begin a drama series about a blackboard-jungle Tarzan, Mr. Novak, with James Franciscus as the muscular teach. Then the viewer can graduate to ABC's Channing, a university with ivy and all-"a world in microcosm," says ABC, "reflecting an alltime interest in the college scene." Thus prepared, the viewer is at last ready for the first big-money quiz show in five years. ABC, figuring TV has outlived the shame of its scandals, has plunged on a new quiz program named for its top take, 100 Grand. The network nostalgically insists...