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Kryzanowska, who was born in Detroit the only child of artist parents, has always led an active life. She spent her young years living on an orange plantation in Florida. "I was wild," she says. "I climbed trees and swung on grapevines, hanging upside down and going like Tarzan of the Apes from one vine to another...
...Trespassers will be eaten." SIGN, posted outside the Miami residence of actor Steve Sipek, who played Tarzan in the late '60s. Last week, one of Sipek's two pet tigers escaped and was shot by a wildlife officer...
...backstroke at the 1932 Games, she was favored to win again in 1936 in Berlin. But before the Games, she was thrown off the U.S. team for drinking and throwing dice with sportswriters. Her bad behavior, ahead of its time, propelled her to celebrity. She appeared in the movie Tarzan's Revenge and swam in Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME...
...trans-Atlantic voyage to the 1936 Olympics, Holm spent an afternoon shooting dice with sportswriters and then stayed up late for "a few glasses of champagne." Her expulsion from the team made headlines, and Holm ended up writing about the Games for a wire service. She then acted in Tarzan's Revenge and performed in impresario-husband Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME. Holm retained her freewheeling spirit into old age; she told Bill Clinton during a 1999 White House visit: "Mr. President...
...natural habitat, rather than their cages. But even if you don't get to see the elusive lemur, you may encounter one of over 100 other animals living among the lush vegetation, such as the grey mouse maki, the aye-aye, the tree boa or the girdled lizard. No Tarzan sightings have been reported-yet. Open daily from...