... gain admission to a concert. Most adults have some form of proof that we are who we say we are. But if you don’t have any physical proof, how can you convince people of your identity? I read a story this week that made me think about this question. Johnny Weissmuller was a 5-time Olympic gold medalist who starred in 38 movies and TV series from 1929 to 1976. He is best known as the original Tarzan. He starred in 12 Tarzan movies from 1932-1946. He’s the one who came up with that famous move where he ...
... time Olympic gold medalist for the U.S. Swim Team. But he shouldn’t have been. All his adult life, he harbored a secret that haunted him. All his adult life, he worried that he would lose his gold medals and be exposed as a fraud. You see, Johnny Weissmuller was born in Romania. Sometime after his birth, he and his parents immigrated to the U.S., and his mother gave birth to his younger brother, Pete. At that time, people who were born outside the U.S. were not allowed to compete on the U.S. Olympic teams ...
