Word: tarzans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...list of "bourgeois" books banned by Communist Hungary now neared the 700 mark. Among the forbidden authors: Louis Bromfield, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, John P. Marquand, P. G. Wodehouse, Marcel Proust. Specifically mentioned as objectionable: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, James Hilton's Lost Horizon, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People...
...Hollywood's celluloid curtain. After nearly two years of negotiation, the Ministry of Trade in Moscow last week cleared the way for delivery of a million-dollar, 20-picture package. Among the films the Russians were dickering for: Madame Curie, The Yearling, The Wizard of Oz, Captain Kidd, Tarzan's New York Adventure...
Hooked Idea. Before becoming the anonymous idol of her panting fans, Texas-born Jean King was a singer, a movie bit player (Tarzan and the Amazons) and a radio actress. In 1947, marooned in Dayton, Ohio, she went on station WING as a disc jockey. "I was damned lonely in Dayton," she recalls. "So I just hooked onto this idea and talked about my loneliness. And, you know, I found out there are a lot of lonesome people in this world...
Died. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 74, multimillionaire creator of Tarzan; in Encino, Calif. Since 1914, his 23 Tarzan books have sold nearly 30 million copies in 58 languages and dialects. Other sources of income: royalties on 26 movies that netted him over $5,000,000; comic strips once published in 400 newspapers; a score of trademark classifications on apeman articles from G-strings to bread-wrappers...