Ellison "Tarzan" Brown, a Native American from Rhode Island, won the Boston Marathon in 1936 and 1939. The name "Heartbreak Hill" comes from the 1936 Boston Marathon when Brown overtook Johnny ...

AP Images The full story of Ellison “Tarzan” Brown is more complicated, though, laced with its own pathos and heartbreak. Now, a half-century after Tarzan suffered a wrenching death in 1975 ...