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Dashing back to their campus, they stumbled on a big story, already known to the police (who presumably told Squibb Institute). Missing was the college's most widely known professor, Dr. Friedrich Johannes Hauptmann, head of the German department...
...Hauptmann became a celebrity six years ago when the Rutgers trustees tried him for firing an anti-Nazi professor. The trustees exonerated Dr. Hauptmann, but the trial showed that he was an ardent Nazi. Witnesses testified that he had called President Wilson a "Schweinehund," had written to Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels for propaganda material to be used...
After 35 years as a member of New Jersey's Supreme Court, Justice Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, 77, who presided with memorably magisterial dignity over the turbulent trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, retired, saying: "Well, I figure I'm entitled to quit...
...last week Ernie Pyle, an inconspicuous little man, with thinning reddish lair and a shy, pixy face, was not celebrated as a straight news reporter. Once, for a few years, he was managing editor of he Washington News against his better judgment, distinguished himself by putting the arrest of Hauptmann, kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby, at the bottom of page 1. But five years ago Ernie left Washington, went to New Mexico for a rest. He sent some informal stories to the News about things and people around him, soon got a roving commission from Scripps-Howard to write about...
Heatter's advent on the big time dates from April 3, 1936. That night he was stationed at Trenton to cover the execution of Bruno Hauptmann. Although Heatter had been tipped off that Bruno was scheduled to be electrocuted at 8:05, he did not die until close to nine. Meanwhile, Heatter ad libbed triumphantly for 53 minutes for MBS, setting a record for extemporaneous chatter...