Word: tarzans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when they fled the hunter. In fact, he ran at a speed of no less than 50 m.p.h.* for several miles before a jeepload of hunters finally overhauled him and took him into camp. Skeptical Americans, who had been raised on such fare from P. T. Barnum to Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, heard and grinned...
...slick was the transition that few Barnaby fans suspected what was going on. The comic business has its share of retirements and deaths, but changes in authors and artists are seldom advertised. Thus Tarzan still carries Edgar Rice Burroughs' bold byline, but has been written and drawn for years by a succession of ghosts. King of the Royal Mounted still bears the name of Zane Grey, whom it has survived by seven years. And although Clare Briggs died in 1930, the New York Herald Tribune could not bring itself to put a new by-line (Arthur Folwell and Ellison...
Reporting on a Hollywood party she attended, Diana Barrymore, 24, said that Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney pasted her cousin, Sammy Colt, 36, so she, Diana, gave Tierney what-for, as he stood there with his shirt off, "like Tarzan." And furthermore, she said: "You dreary, dreadful actor, if you want to fight, hit me." Then she slapped his face eight times. The party, given by Artist John Decker, climaxed in six simultaneous fist fights, but nobody but Jack LaRue lost enough blood to be worth bothering about...
Johnny Weissmuller, 41, barrel-chesty onetime swimming champ, longtime movie Tarzan, onetime husband of Dancer Bobbe Arnst and of Actress Lupe Velez, was sued for divorce for the third time. Wife III charged extreme cruelty, asked $1,800-a-month support for herself and three children...
...finally in [a cemetery ] named Oakmont or Woodland." And where Sir Walter failed, estate agents of the boom 1920s often succeeded. The town of Mosquito became Troutdale, Zigzag switched to Rhododendron, Screamerville to Chancellor, Bee Pee to the more progressive Chevrolet. Recently named post offices include XRay, Radio, Gasoline, Tarzan, Gene Autry...