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...members of the American Federation for Sex Hygiene who in 1914 helped found the American Social Hygiene Association. Director today of the Association's Division of Educational Measures and Consultant is Dr. Max Joseph Exner. Austrian-born 60 years ago, Dr. Exner was at 19 an expert gymnast, took a Y. M. C. A. course in physical education, became physical education director at Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.). Meanwhile he took college courses, studied medicine, took his M. D. degree in 1906. As director of sex education for the Y. M. C. A., he went to the border during...
Besides conducting this class, Nelson, who is also a gymnast and familiar with all angles of the work, will also be available at the Indoor Athletic Building after the five o'clock classes, of which he is the director. The work will be similar to that at Hemenway...
Died. Lillian Leitzel Pelikan Cordona (Lillian Leitzel), 37, famed circus gymnast; after a fall when an iron trapeze ring broke; in Copenhagen, Denmark. Born in Prague. Czechoslovakia, she came to the U.S. at the age of 17, tiny, graceful, with the mop of gold-bronze hair which always distinguished her. She trouped with "The Four Leamy Ladies," joined Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circuses in 1920. Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope...
...overheard the reason, heard that he too was probably marked as a victim. He determined to cheat untimely death by making himself strong. In St. Louis, in the midst of struggles to earn his living, he joined a gymnasium. Soon his muscles began to bulge. He became an adept gymnast, an expert Greco-Roman wrestler. He entered the lightweight national tournament, won it; challenged Chicago's welterweight champion, flattened him in four minutes; challenged Chicago's Heavyweight Champion Frank Whitmore, downed him in 91 minutes. After unsuccessful tries as acrobat and laundryman, Macfadden announced himself as a "kinistherapist...
...Married. Lillian Leitzel, strong arm "flying-trapeze queen" of Ringling's Circus ; to Alfredo Cordona, gymnast; in Chicago. "We're going to entertain circus crowds as long as we live," they said...