Word: neudorf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Football players of a few years ago will remember Neudorf just as vividly as those this year know the torture of the first few workouts that Norman W. Fradd puts them through, for the Brattle Street gymnast is a former instructor in Physical Education at Harvard...
Once described as "the man with the only 100 per cent perfect physique," Hans Neudorf, with a small office at 18 Brattle Street, still caters to persons wishing to become enviable specimens of muscular perfection...
...Neudorf is not a specialist in putting two inches on your biceps in a week. "No, I don't teach any of this strongman stuff. By practicing gymnastics as I teach them, a man can gain muscular coordination as well as a powerful build. No Tarzan tactics in my classes...
Even Hemingway Gymnasium with its pictures of Harvard Apollo's cannot compare with this small gym whose walls are covered with photographs of Greek gods, proteges of Neudorf and other examples of perfect physical development. He has taken moving pictures of some of his classes turning handsprings, twisting themselves into triangles and hopping around with the abandon of sylphs. But none of these productions can rival the gilded photographs of Neudorf himself, resplendent in tights which conceal beneath their briefness the body of the "only perfect...
...Zipser Neudorf, Czechoslovakia, a widow named Andrejcak was arrested on a dark night carrying from the local cemetery the disinterred body of a small boy. She confessed in court that her lover, Joseph Koery, seemed less fond of her than he had been; that she was going to use the body to compound a love-philtre...