Word: tarzanitis
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...just a ten-year-old in Penns Grove, N.J. when he set his mind on becoming Tarzan-or a movieland version of him. Hanging ropes from the tallest trees around, he spent hours swinging from tree to tree. As he grew up, he even began to look the part-tall, dark and handsome, with awesomely muscled arms and shoulders. At Villanova University, Don Bragg neglected rope swinging for pole vaulting, flew so high, despite his hefty 200 Ibs.. that two months ago he set the world's indoor record of 15 ft. 9½ in. But Bragg remained...
Borrowed by the A.A.U. from the Army, Private Bragg. 23, visited France last month as an athletic ambassador. Excitable French newsmen were dazzled, saw in him the epitome of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle boy. "Bragg, the Tarzan of athletics, knocked the breath out of the Paris public." gasped the Paris France-Soir. "If gentle Jane had kneeled beside him. and Cheetah had jumped to his side," thrilled the Paris-Presse, "nobody would have been surprised...
...Sound, his chief means of detection, travels almost five times faster through water than through air, and it plays more tricks than a Soviet delegate at a peace conference. "The ocean," says Thach, "is a liquid jungle. Survival depends on how well we know this environment and whether, like Tarzan, we can tell the friendly sounds from the unfriendly ones-the monkeys from the tigers...
...first Tarzan who actually spoke whole sentences was Lex Barker, of the New York Social Register, who in 1948 replaced Johnny Weissmuller, the mobil-est Tarzan of them all. An Olympic champion and once the fastest swimmer in the world, Weissmuller also holds the record for longevity as the jungle hero: twelve versions over 16 years. Today's Tarzan is Gordon Scott, 30, with a 50-in. chest. A onetime lifeguard at a Las Vegas hotel, Scott is the first Tarzan in color and CinemaScope...
...Tarzan's Fight for Life, Scott carries on with Jane No. 19 (Eve Brent), demonstrates what has become of Novelist Burroughs' inarticulate hero, the offspring of titled British parents whose deaths left him as a child to the motherhood of the jungle. The pristine Tarzan of the screen who hated all white men-although his name, in Burroughswahili, meant white (tar) man (zan)-is now the champion of modern medical science. Tarzan 1958 knows a simple defense against the slings and arrows of mumbo jumbo. His prescription: "Take pill quick...