Word: tarzans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Test Tube Frolics. So-called scientific fiction of this sort is not the private property of pulps and comics. As Author Bailey shows in this survey of the literary imagination frolicking among test tubes and cam shafts, Tarzan, Superman and even Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle are novices and newcomers in the field...
Author Cain's introduction is so spirited that readers are likely to start his new novel with respect and sympathy. Unfortunately, they will find that The Butterfly, despite its air of dealing frankly with the delicate and ancient Oedipus theme, is about as incestuous as Tarzan of the Apes...
Adding to the general fun is the conductor, who swings Tarzan-style from Yale to Yale in an effort to collect his fares. The girls meekly surrender their dime, as a rule, but the male element jumps off and runs for a while (if he hasn't already been swept off by a passing car), regaining the trolley after the conductor has passed or has given the whole thing up as hopeless...
According to a widely accepted theory, Man's arboreal ancestors swung from bough to bough until climatic changes shot the trees out from under them. But Dr. von Koenigswald says there were always plenty of trees in southeast Asia. His giants just got too heavy for Tarzan tactics. When snapping branches dumped them too often, they took to solid ground, armed themselves with stone axes. Then, not needing bulk for protection, they shrank to handier size...
Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 35, cinemactress, ofttime Tarzan's mate, and John Farrow, 40, cinema director: their fourth child, third son; in Hollywood. Name: John Charles Villiers. Weight...