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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Bruce Weber / The Bulletin
November 18, 2008
Thirty-six years before Michael Phelps, in a Beijing swimming pool, became the standard-bearer for how fast a human being could move through the water, there was Mark Spitz at the Olympics in Munich, Germany. And decades before Spitz, there was Johnny Weissmuller, aka Tarzan, who in the 1920s....