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They hung a green flag with a green star in a white square in the Louis XVI room of Manhattan's Hotel Manger last week. About 150 delegates gathered there and chatted in a language which no bellboy, waiter, clerk could understand. The men wore green neckties, the women green enamel stars. It was the 22nd annual congress of the Esperanto Association of North America, the organization for fostering and teaching the "universal lan-guage" which "promises sacred peace...
Strong Al Manger and strong Willie Rohrer had one rival for attention, little (118-lb.) Robert Knodle of Hagerstown, Md., who broke five records in his class. But, as usual, the heavyweight class seemed more interesting...
...Manger takes his burdens casually. He ambles toward the bar and, simply, lifts it. Sometimes he does not lift it much higher than his knees. In this case he puts it down, bows sadly to the audience. But if he succeeds in raising it, he holds it im mobile, and proudly, through his big nose, sniffs the stale...
...Manger's records were 198 lb. in the two-arm military press, 264 lb. in the two-arm clean and jerk, 192½ lb. in the two-arm snatch...
...Albert Manger, 29, is 6 ft. 2 in. and shy. He has never lifted a piano, a horse, or a safe. In Baltimore he is a printer...