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Tarzan has swung in many directions.

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19970713
Author:Schaefer, Stephen

Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes," in which an English lord was lost in Africa and raised by apes, was first published in 1914.

In 1918, Hollywood discovered the character, making lunky, apelike Elmo Lincoln the big screen's first Man of the Jungle in a series of silent films.

Olympians Buster Crabbe and Herman Brix (whose German name was Hollywoodized to Bruce Bennett) played Tarzan in the 1930s - with what today would be considered skimpy loincloths. But it was the MGM "Tarzan" series that made the mythic white man in Africa a movie staple, and another Olympic ...

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