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...golden eagle," cried Idaho's State Game Warden Amos Eckert last month, "is wild life's Public Enemy...
Last month the motor truck in which 739-lb. "Happy Jack" Eckert lived, traveled and displayed himself as a freak of nature collided with a freight truck at Flomaton, Ala. Ten men succeeded in carrying Happy Jack into a hospital and placing him on two beds lashed together...
Promptly the dead monster's manager offered the body to famed Tulane University in New Orleans, "because Jack always wished some school be given the opportunity to study his glandular system."* The surviving next of kin, Sister Katharine Eckert, 74, of Fort Wayne, Ind., agreed. But Tulane refused the offer because fat cadavers are useless for the study of anatomy. Hinted, also, were Tulane's fears that Jack's sister might change her mind at the last moment or that there might be legal complications about getting a body across the Alabama-Louisiana State line for anatomical...
...finished, wrapped herself in a brown blanket, sat in a camp chair ostentatiously looking in the opposite direction while her rivals sprang off the low board. Obviously the most personable contestant in the event, she was also, in the opinion of five judges, the ablest by a shade. Claudia Eckert, a mop-haired, 18-year-old Northwestern amphibian who, like famed Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, is indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost this title to 13-year-old Marjorie Gestring of Los Angeles, replaced...
...Ruth E. Eckert of Buffalo, New York, A.B. University of Buffalo, 1930, A.M. 1932, now in the Harvard Graduate School of Education...