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...Tarzan and the Mermaids. The producer has the name Tarzan by the tail and he doesn't care how he uses it... Lack of jungle animals didn't help this any. And where were the mermaids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Behind the Popcorn Popper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Johnny Weissmuller, 43, for 17 years the screen's ranking Tarzan, conceded to his middle-aging middle, shed his breechclout for a bush-jacket in a new movie called Jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Moody, young (46) General Hu Tsung-nan was fond of taking lonely walks. Suddenly he would stop, beat his chest in Tarzan fashion, and howl to the heavens. Ex plained Hu : "Thus do I free myself of internal and external pressures." Friends urged him to take a wife. General Hu, short, sturdy watchdog of China's north west, shook his head. "I have a job to do," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chest-Thumper | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Johnny Weissmuller, 43, was through playing Tarzan after 16 years; he couldn't get together with his studio on contract terms. The new Tarzan: Lex Barker, an old Exeter boy who used to be aide to General Mark Clark in Italy. Weissmuller's new meal ticket: impersonating a screen character called "Jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Edgar Rice Burroughs, biographer of Tarzan, drove his Buick convertible out of the driveway of his home in Tarzana, Calif., was thereupon struck by another Buick convertible which had just been struck by yet another Buick convertible. The autos were injured; 72-year-old Burroughs was not scratched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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