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...issued a release claiming that as this flimsy, forgettable, escapist wisp of a movie enters its fifth year it becomes the world's longest running picture in one theater. The Guiness Book of World Records, however, reported in 1969 that a theater in Egypt had been showing Me Tarzan, You Jane since September, 1949. So there...
Charles had endured another grueling trial in Her Majesty's Service, this time a taste of commando assault training, the Tarzan and ropes course. "He doesn't lack for fitness," allowed a Royal Marines' spokesman. Prince Charles must have blanched, however, when commanded to negotiate a 20-ft. high tree-to-tree ropewalk. The whole adventure was clearly one he would just as soon never try again. Said he: "A most horrifying expedition...
Digression: A parallel presents itself. Seven years ago for a period of a month and a half, a certain unknown freshman mounted a certain unknown pinnacle in the Yard each evening at 5:20 p.m. to bellow the finest Tarzan yell this side of the Equator. W.C. Burriss Young '55, then associate dean of freshmen, soon perceived that something had to be done, as each evening multitudes of freshmen abandoned their studies to hark to the mystery wail. Grade-point averages were dipping dangerously. Young pursued the lonely caterwauler with the dogged persistence of an insecure gum-shoe...
...elevated the first prize from $3,000 to $2 million and transformed a board game into a blood sport. But Steiner, a literary critic first and a chess patzer second, is appalled by Fischer's xenophobic rancor, his avarice and below all, his literary taste (Fu Manchu, Tarzan and Playboy...
...Tarzan, who you? For the next two or three weeks Bobby Kennedy Jr., 20, will be swinging through the Kenya bush. As star and narrator of a forthcoming TV series, The Last Frontier, Bobby plays himself, an American city boy learning how to live in the wilds of Africa. His part demands several dangerous encounters, including a puffadder handling exhibition. So far he has demonstrated his cool by dangling at the end of a rope over the face of a sheer, 250-ft. cliff to inspect a vulture's nest. Then, wearing a bracelet of elephant's hair...