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February 7, 1925

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APOSTLE OF DOOM BEGUILED BY RADIO AS WORLD WAGS ON; Hears a Pittsburgh Jazz Band, Looks Over the Stars and Goes to Bed. HIS MIND ON SYNCOPATION After a Day Spent in Preparing for Millennium Reidt Might Have Missed It. PLAGUED BY THE CURIOUS Brother Downs Loses His Temper After Trying Day and Battles Movie Camera Men. APOSTLE OF DOOM BEGUILED BY RADIO

By Special to The New York Times

Apostle Reidt sells rest of possessions and pays all his debts, listens to radio while waiting for cloud to appear; Brother Downs battles with movie camera men in attempt to keep his oath not to be pictured

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Hans Schmidt (wrestler)

1925Hans Schmidt, Canadian wrestler (died 2012)[†]

Guy Larose, better known by his ring name Hans Schmidt, was a Canadian professional wrestler famous in the 1950s and 1960s. His gimmick that of a German pseudo-Nazi heel, gained him considerable notoriety and popularized the proliferation of similar gimmicks through Canadian and American wrestling.