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Adding to the general fun is the conductor, who swings Tarzan-style from Yale to Yale in an effort to collect his fares. The girls meekly surrender their dime, as a rule, but the male element jumps off and runs for a while (if he hasn't already been swept off by a passing car), regaining the trolley after the conductor has passed or has given the whole thing up as hopeless...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Elis of Two Centuries Shun Ways of Crimson's Radicals | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

According to a widely accepted theory, Man's arboreal ancestors swung from bough to bough until climatic changes shot the trees out from under them. But Dr. von Koenigswald says there were always plenty of trees in southeast Asia. His giants just got too heavy for Tarzan tactics. When snapping branches dumped them too often, they took to solid ground, armed themselves with stone axes. Then, not needing bulk for protection, they shrank to handier size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Giants of Old | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 35, cinemactress, ofttime Tarzan's mate, and John Farrow, 40, cinema director: their fourth child, third son; in Hollywood. Name: John Charles Villiers. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...when they fled the hunter. In fact, he ran at a speed of no less than 50 m.p.h.* for several miles before a jeepload of hunters finally overhauled him and took him into camp. Skeptical Americans, who had been raised on such fare from P. T. Barnum to Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, heard and grinned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Triumph of Civilization | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...slick was the transition that few Barnaby fans suspected what was going on. The comic business has its share of retirements and deaths, but changes in authors and artists are seldom advertised. Thus Tarzan still carries Edgar Rice Burroughs' bold byline, but has been written and drawn for years by a succession of ghosts. King of the Royal Mounted still bears the name of Zane Grey, whom it has survived by seven years. And although Clare Briggs died in 1930, the New York Herald Tribune could not bring itself to put a new by-line (Arthur Folwell and Ellison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Escape Artist | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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