Word: tarzans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny Weissmuller, continuing his one-man, one-lifetime, evolutionary ascent from the cinema's ape-man to man (TIME, March 6). gave up his crowning Tarzan glory...
...Carson City and Virginia City. After this he gave prospecting a try, trudging through various parts of Arizona, New Mexico Colorado, California, and Nevada. Finding this life too tame, he turned to studying in Hollywood, where among other things he staged the fights and appeared in all the Tarzan pictures. You might have seen him fighting in the trees of under water in these films. He is also a qualified electrical operator and has thrown his Kleigs on the "This is the Army" and "Thank Your Lucky Stars" sets. He is, according to Chief Clem, an expert in skiing, judo...
Sued for Divorce. Johnny Weissmuller, 39, thrice-married swimmer-turned-cinema-Tarzan; by Beryel Laura Scott Weissmuller, 28, San Francisco rug cleaner's daughter, mother of Weissmuller's three; after four years of marriage, her first; in Los Angeles...
...company Baker is concerned. That quiet reserve and dignity you observed probably can be credited to the Baker wives, most of whom have made their way to Cambridge by now . . . . The boys who got amphib are scaring the wits out of everybody by making blood-thirsty Tarzan calls while running around besmudged with burnt cork . . . That white hat which "Admiral" Colby wore while the plain folk marched in garrisons was not the manifestation of rugged individualism. He had misplaced the other job, and had nothing else to wear, it says here . . . thoughts while strolling, as the immortal McIntyre used...
...movie-handsome six-footer with a Tarzan build, George Putnam believes that the advent of television will be the flowering of his career. Although cinemoguls, he says, have told him that he could be "as big as anything in Hollywood," he insists that radio newscasting is his métier. And, he points out, it is not all voice: "Look at David Ross. Look at Milton Cross. They have beautiful voices, but there must be a driving force." This, and his "underlying note of friendly warmth," are what Putnam points to with pride when listeners write in, as they constantly...