Weissmuller, Johnny (1904?-1984)
Although he first achieved fame as a free-style swimmer who won five Olympic gold medals and set 67 world records, Johnny Weissmuller is best known for his film role a...
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Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984), who played the role of Tarzan in films made during the 1930s, was one of the best swimmers of the twentieth century. He won five Olympic gold medals, set 24 world recor...
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Gordon Scott, a handsome, muscular actor who portrayed an "intelligent and nice" Tarzan in 1950s movies, has died. He was 80. Scott, who had been living in a working class section of south Baltimor...
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Jan 13 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on January 20 since 1900: 1936 - King George V of Britain died. His son succeeded him
as Edward VIII but abdicated later ...
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Beijing (dpa) - Another rat year means another Olympics, since
every third games takes place while the Chinese astrological rodent
rules the stars.
If the fir...
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Tiny L. Laster Jr.HAMPTON, Va. (AP) _ Tiny L. Laster Jr., the longtime Hampton University women's coach who led the softball team to a regular-season championship on Tuesday, died Thursday from kid...
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Jane Goodall discovered that sometimes knowing less is more.When Louis Leakey sent her to the Gombe Stream chimpanzee preserve in 1960 in what is now Tanzania, Goodall was only a secretarial school...
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I've lived more than 40 years in California.I had dinner and a night in a motel in Rhode Island.Pennsylvania got three years of my life. Indiana, a long afternoon.I've walked all over New York. I b...
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Weissmuller, Johnny (1904?-1984)
Johnny Weissmuller
1950s 'Tarzan' Gordon Scott dies at 80
