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...addition to legions of capitalists, the school has produced public servants like Henry Stimson and George Bush. Yale, the Los Angeles Times and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are all headed by Andover graduates. Other alumni include the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Tarzan Creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Actor Jack Lemmon. Humphrey Bogart never got his diploma; he was kicked out in 1918 for "incontrollably high spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shedding That Preppy Image | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...Freshman Mixer. There were new elements to it, of course. The Harvard mixer had no Midwesterners cruising in turquoise Firebirds with tailwings and racing stripes. It had no 30-year-old hangers-on. It had no wet t-shirt contests. Elvis Presley could never have made one of his Tarzan-of-our-time movies at Harvard's Memorial Hall. But the requisite Fort Lauderdale scam of being charming to strangers seemed too much like the mixer mentality for Namo and I to feel that we had escaped from much. The main thing everyone there had left behind was restraint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manifest Destiny: | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...looks like Tarzan...And speaks like Jane...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Massacre of Valentine's Day | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

Schwarzenegger knows where the best deals like, his book notwithstanding, and he will soon embark on the first of what he hopes will be a series of films based on the fantasy paperback, Konan, the Barbarian--shades of Johnny Weismuller's Tarzan epics. Despite his typecasting for the role, Schwarzenegger has been taking acting lessons for some time, even though he says he knows how to act. After all, acting is supposed to be natural these days since it has "gotten away from that Shakespearean way, delivering the lines in a weird...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: 'I knew I was a winner. I just had it in me.' | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...Rams' doctor persuaded Joe to stop running and take up swimming, a radical regimen for football. The aim was to expand his cardiovascular endurance without risking his fragile knees. Soon Namath was doing 1,600 yards a day in the pool-and becoming known among his teammates as "Tarzan" or "Spitz." Namath did not seem to mind: "I can't say swimming is better than other exercises, but I know I feel as strong as I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rough Start for Freeway Joe | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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