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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 38, Irish-born cinemactress, sometime cine-mate of Tarzan, and John Villiers Farrow, 43, Australian-born Hollywood writer-director (Wake Island, The Big Clock): their sixth child, third daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Stephanie Margarita. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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 »

...Tarzan and the Mermaids. The producer has the name Tarzan by the tail and he doesn't care how he uses it... Lack of jungle animals didn't help this any. And where were the mermaids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Behind the Popcorn Popper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Johnny Weissmuller, 43, for 17 years the screen's ranking Tarzan, conceded to his middle-aging middle, shed his breechclout for a bush-jacket in a new movie called Jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Moody, young (46) General Hu Tsung-nan was fond of taking lonely walks. Suddenly he would stop, beat his chest in Tarzan fashion, and howl to the heavens. Ex plained Hu : "Thus do I free myself of internal and external pressures." Friends urged him to take a wife. General Hu, short, sturdy watchdog of China's north west, shook his head. "I have a job to do," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chest-Thumper | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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