Tarzan yell Tarzan yell The Tarzan yell or Tarzan's jungle call is the distinctive, ululating yell of the character Tarzan as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs starting with "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932). The yell was a creation of the movies based on what Burroughs described in his books as simply "the victory cry of the bull ape." Although the RKO Picture version of the Tarzan yell was putatively that of Weissmuller, different stories exist as to how the Tarzan yell was created. Many speculate that a man named Lloyd
Shirley Babashoff homemaker. Her father had been a swimming instructor in Hawaii and always wanted his own children to become Olympians. Both of her parents are second-generation Russian American. In 1982, she was inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer." Babashoff was occasionally referred to as "Surly Shirley" and described as a "sore loser" by the media because of her public accusations of drug cheating by the East German swimmers. It was later proven that many East German athletes were using performance-enhancing drugs. After her Olympic career ended, Babashoff coached swimming, had a son in 1986 whom