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...flung her over one broad shoulder like a bag of cement and started to dance again. When he had calmed down enough to be coherent, Bragg declared: "I don't want to push the Man Upstairs. All I want is a gold medal in the Olympics, and then Tarzan of the Apes in the movies...
...Steve Clark of Los Angeles qualified in 48.8. Suitably impressed, Farrell hit his tumble turns in the finals like an acrobat, won in the record time of 48.2 (Clark was fifth, with 49.4) So fast were the American sprinters that 19 bettered the 51-sec. world record of Johnny (Tarzan) Weissmuller, which had stood from 1927 to 1943. Australia's Jon Henricks, 24, a student at the University of Southern California, and 100-meter gold medal winner in the 1956 Olympics, did not even qualify for the finals...
Divorced. Gordon Scott, 32, Hollywooden Tarzan No. 11; by Vera Miles (real name: Ralston), 29, sulking screen wife (The FBI Story); after 3½ years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico...
...bids to become Harvard's first 14-ft. pole vaulter, Blodgett will face opposition like Don "Tarzan" Bragg, who has cleared 15 ft., 9 in. indoors; Jerry Welbourn, another 15-footer; and ex-Penn star John Gray, one of the best the Ivy League has produced. Blodgett, coholder of the University indoor mark at 13 ft., 6 in., will be going after Tom Ford's record...
...vows, "I'll never come down again!" And he doesn't-for more than half a century. The area around the little north Italian town of Ombrosa is so heavily forested that he can travel for miles swinging from tree to tree like an 18th century Tarzan. He builds tree houses and shoots game. He climbs down to a low branch to milk a complacent goat, trains a hen to lay in a convenient place. A limb overhanging a swift-running stream makes an excellent toilet...