Word: bernarr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Published by famed Bernarr Macfadden (pink tabloid Graphic, lurid confessional magazines), the new daily - New York Daily Investment News - described itself as designed to "help the public understand Wall Street." When the Investment News was first announced (TIME, April 8), many a scoffer wondered how Publisher Macfadden, previously more interested in short skirts than in short selling, in swimming pools rather than in stock pools, could successfully turn to the Facts of Finance from the Facts of Life. Yet well was the transition made. There is no sex in the Investment News. There are no cosmographs. It is a tabloid...
...Bernarr Macfadden...
Since then, journalism has progressed. Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's New York Evening Graphic has, "with an earnest desire to bring lonely people together," established a Lonely Hearts' page. Men and women seeking companions do not have to pay to have their notices inserted in the Graphic. They can even have their photographs published free of charge, if they will but come to the Graphic office. This new lure was established last week. It is all a labor of love: "Drab, colorless lives have been made bright; discouraged souls have been given renewed faith in mankind and have...
...Bernarr ("Body-Love") Macfadden, publisher of the Manhattan Evening Graphic and other periodicals which wear the disguise of shockingly slight physicul-turism, last week purchased a school for boys, The Castle Heights Military Academy, at Lebanon, Tenn. What could have been Bernarr Macfadden's motive in this act, few could say. He himself announced that his friend, Lieutenant William Goodson of the U. S. Army, would run the school much as it has been run in the past, except that its curriculum would include several courses in "physical culture...
...Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, publisher of the New York Evening Graphic, Physical Culture Magazine, True Story, etc., went to Washington, D. C., lectured to 100 U. S. Congressmen in the House office building for 45 minutes on "Keeping...