Ilonka karasz biography of mahatma
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In 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs published the short story Tarzan of the Apes. Since then at least ninety books, 350 radio serials, three TV series and forty-five full-length films have told the story of the Lord of the Apes.
Tarzan was the first pop culture icon to attain worldwide fame, paving the way for a host of comic-book superheroes that would follow. Recalling his youth in post-war Leningrad in the early 1950s, Joseph Brodsky wrote of the bootleg Tarzan movies he devoured at the local cinema, and the effect a “long-haired naked loner” had on the regimented, inhibited lives of Soviet youth: “The Tarzan (film) series alone, I daresay, did more for de-Stalinization than all of Khrushchev’s speeches.”
Starting with Elmo Lincoln in 1918, four different silent film actors portrayed Tarzan before Johnny Weissmuller (1904–1984) swung onto the screen with co-star Maureen O’Sullivan. Other Tarzan portrayers would follow, but it was Weissmuller—winner of five gold medals as an Olympic swimmer—who defined the role over two decades, starring in twelve Tarzan films from 1932 to 1948, O’Sullivan playing Jane in the first six of those films. Critic John Mosher sensed that Weissmuller was in for the long haul in just his seco
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Index of Topics
V, 1, p-34 (Jan 1922)
I, 11, p-28 (Jan 1919); I, 12, p-33 (Feb 1919); V, 5, p-22 (May 1922); V, 10, p-5 (Oct 1922)
III, 7, p-52 (Jul 1920); Trio, 8, p-3 (Aug 1920)
II, 10, pp-2, 28, and 33 (Oct 1919)
VI, 6, p-23 (Jun 1923)
V, 11, p-13 (Nov/Dec 1922); VI, 7, p-8 (Jul 1923); VI, 10, p-9 (Oct 1923)
III, 1, p-40 (Jan 1920)
I, 2, p-7 (Apr 1918)
VII, 8, p-20 (Aug 1924)
V, 9, p-34 (Sep 1922)
VII, 9, p-11 (Sep 1924)
I, 9, p-39 (Nov 1918); I, 10, p-20 (Dec 1918)
-. “To My Husband.” (poem) IV, 8, p-27 (Aug 1921)
Memorandum on Appreciate Aspects divest yourself of the Bolshevist Movement unite Russia, reviewed by Focal point Eastman. Threesome, 3, p-42 (Mar 1920)
II, 9, p-13 and 18 [portrait] (Sep 1919)
Civil War
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From time to time, if only to amuse and challenge myself, I buy cartoon books sight unseen. Generally, there is something about their description I find alluring enough to be willing to take a risk. Don't try this at home unless you're willing to face possible disappointment.
In the case of a copy of George Booth's now classic Think Good Thoughts About a Pussycat (1975), bookseller John K. King offered an inscribed copy with drawings by Marvin Tannenberg, Sam Gross, Bill Woodman, and Booth. That's a great combination of cartoonists usually found in signed copies of the The Art in Cartooning (1975) from the Cartoonists' Guild. Perhaps Raymond, the book's original recipient, carried his copy of the Booth book into the signing, or perhaps it was also available for purchase at whatever venue the signing was held. The seller speculates that Raymond was cartoonist Raymond Thayer, which is interesting, but there's no clear evidence for this one way or the other.
The price of $224.25 is admittedly pricey for a book one hasn't seen. One always worries that a suite of drawings such as this one hasn't been imaged because it just doesn't look quite as good as it sounds. But the bookseller threw in an unrelated letter he received from Booth in response, apparently, to a qu