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Long before he prowled the celluloid jungles, Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller was a national hero. To swimming idolaters of the 1920s, the faces of Babe Ruth, Red Grange and Paavo Nurmi paled before the image of the bronzed, high-cheekboned champion. Sportswriters later acclaimed him as the out standing swimmer of the first half-century, and rightly so. When he retired in 1929, Weissmuller held every freestyle record from 100 yds. to the half mile. And who could forget his showing in the 1928 Olympics, when he devastated his own Olympic 100-meter mark in the breathtaking time...
Tatlin's influence has long been obscured by the fact that, as a dutiful Communist, he knuckled under in the 1920s, when the Communists decided Socialist realism would be the only acceptable art form. While Gabo and Pevsner fled to the West, Tatlin ended his days in Russia as an obscure drafts man and stage designer, experimenting with Leonardo-like flying machines. (The Soviet government apparently still thinks so little of him that it refused to lend any work to the Stockholm show.) But in retrospect, argues the Modern Museum's Pontus Hulten, "Tatlin is emerging ever more...
Died. Agnes Morgan, 84, professor of nutrition at the University of California (Berkeley) from 1915 to 1954 and the food expert who made vitamin a household word in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Berkeley. In the early 1920s she pushed the idea that a vitamin a day might keep the doctor away, showed that grey hair can be caused by vitamin deficiency and that overcooking reduces the nutritional value of meat. In all, she authored more than 150 papers on nutrition and tested virtually every popular diet except, she once cracked, "the drinking man's diet...
...mass of alligators, wrestling one down with a flourish while the crowd cheered. Ah, yes. When a girl's been a hit in show biz, it's hard to settle for a ho-hum-drum routine. That's why Katherine Reid, 66, who in the 1920s made quite a name for herself on stage and screen, has started up that long comeback trail. Billing herself the "world's only lady gator wrestler," she sees no ordinary run-of-the-reptile return. She wants to gild her scaly and do guest shots on TV shows "walking...
...contemporaries in the 1920s, young Aldous Huxley had been a legend for his "lack of charity." He was seen as "a walking encyclopedia," alive only from the neck up. Aldous, Elizabeth Bowen once said with damning praise, was "the stupid person's idea of the clever person...