Word: bernarr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing I still dislike about TIME is your attitude towards Bernarr Macfadden. I know that his physical culture ideas have done much good in countless cases. They are essentially sound. What if he does make money from such magazines as True Stories, True Romances, etc. ? Why attack his doctrines of physical fitness on that account? You will say: Because he is intolerant of materia medico, and bacteriology. After all he could not be more intolerant of these than is Morris Fishbein of everything outside the province of the M. D. And yet you continually glorify Fishbein...
...actor, of course, was John Barrymore. But such true stories as were hinted at! Why did not Mr. Barrymore sell his life story to Bernarr Macfadden who popularizes frankness of self revelation unmatched...
...beside the unhappy journalist yearning for the golden era of the New York Sun in its prime have cause to take alarm at the sturdy growth of this bastard offspring of the more decent journals. The mushroom development to a circulation of 100,000 in less than a year Bernarr MacFadden's "Evening Graphic", trenchantly dubbed the "Porno Graphic", is food for unpleasant thought. It gives some color of justification to Dr. John Roach Straton's arraignment of modern civilization. If in some respects one discerns signs of healthy progress in American life, surely here is a mark of decadence...
...Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle of "Health." "There he stands, almost in the garb with which nature clad him, a majestic figure with lungs inflated, pompadour defying the world. His skin . . . is full of strength. . . . He has taken what should be a beautiful search for health, for vigor and for strength, and made of it an ugly and discouraging thing to every right-minded individual...
...campaign against scientific medicine, the latest organization of Bernarr Macfadden* is the Americanism Protective League. Circulars are being sent to the public with forms addressed to state legislators in the State of New York asking them to oppose the passage of acts regulating the practice of medicine...