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...Strong." Neither sin nor suit can solve the problem which confronts Rose Freistater, 26, of The Bronx. When Miss Freistater applied for a teaching job in 1931, New York City examiners put her on the scales, found she weighed 182 Ib. Normal weight for a woman of Miss Freistater's 5 ft., 2 in. is 120 Ib. The examiners split the difference, gave her six months to train down to 150. The fretful life of a substitute teacher brought her down to 162 but at the end of six months she was back at 180. Refused a permanent...
...Bronx's New York Zoological Park appeared Rupert Merkl, 52, Bavarian-born, Ossining, N. Y. farmer, claiming he had invented a snake trap. Said Curator of Reptiles Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars: "Impossible. I have never seen an effective snake trap and I know of no poison that will lure...
...past four months, stolid Bruno Richard Hauptmann has sat in the death house of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton. Convicted of murdering Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the German carpenter from The Bronx has busied himself writing his autobiography. Twenty-three times has he been visited by his loyal, horse-faced wife Anna, who, affecting more modish dress since the Flemington trial, has traveled 6,000 miles, collected $8,300 for her husband's defense. Towheaded Baby Mannfried, an occasional visitor to his father's cell in Flemington, has not been admitted to the death house. Hauptmann...
...will contain no films less than two years old. To get prints of famed old-time films, the library's scouts last spring ransacked vaults of old film companies, country theatres, disused warehouses. A print of The May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss (1896) was found in a Bronx trash...
Last week the McHenry quartet was touring New York City. They appeared at the Bronx Zoo, the Aquarium, Palisades Amusement Park, Woolworth Tower, the Normandie, N. Y. Police Department Headquarters, McAlpin Hotel and Hearn's Department Store where small, smiling Alyce was billed as "the upside-down tummy girl...