Word: tarzans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limousine. At his house, he told his wife when they laid him down, "I'm never going to leave this bed again." Johnny Weissmuller was here, but lucidity began to elude him in the darkest hours, and he took to wandering into other rooms, booming that famous Tarzan yell, and they had to take him away. The ape man is now being attended to in a villa in Acapulco, and his bills are seen to by the Motion Picture and Television Fund. The fund also administers the Country House and Hospital, which is not equipped to accommodate any behavioral...
...There, the bad feelings that greeted the agents everywhere across the U.S. took a comic twist when two gun-toting INS men rushed through a door into a holding area only to be charged by a herd of angry hogs. The terrified officers escaped by swinging across the rafters, Tarzan-style. None of the 33 arrested were illegal aliens...
...always wanted to be a saint," McNaught said, "but I also had a crush on Tarzan, and I was very confused...
...dreamers. This was put to a dreamer, Washington Post Columnist Colman McCarthy, who writes better than he runs, but has finished three Boston Marathons. He mulled it over for a long moment before answering: "So many great amateurs have triumphed at Boston-Johnny Keliey, Clarence H. DeMar, Tarzan Brown-that it's hard to run there and not feel almost spiritually uplifted by the money-free aura. I know it's 99% impossible and 1% improbable that sports commercialization can be stopped. But that's why the amateur tradition of Boston needs preserving. We're down...
DIED. Enid Markey, ninetyish, multifaceted actress who played the first Jane in the original Tarzan of the Apes and whose 60-year career included not only silent movies but Broadway plays, radio and television productions and several talkies; in Bay Shore...