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Didn't get to be Tarzan but still made a splash

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19980519
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Your article on Edgar Rice Burroughs ("Tarzan of . . . Chicago," May 7) brought back a lot of memories for me. My late dad (Norman Ross Sr.) was a world champion swimmer for seven years and won three gold medals in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.

He was asked to be the first movie Tarzan before Elmo Lincoln was chosen, but when my strict schoolteacher grandmother heard that he was in Hollywood planning to be a movie actor and going with Gloria Swanson, she took him back home to Portland, Ore., and society.

In the 1920s, my dad and Johnny Weismuller (and, I believe, Buster Crabbe) were ...

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