Word: bernarr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it had only a one-ocean fleet to man, the U.S. Navy was as stern as Bernarr Macfadden on the subject of physical condition, rejected 80% of its candidates for enlistment. With war in two oceans on its hands, the Navy has become more tolerant. Henceforth it will accept (and try to recondition) men with varicocele, hydrocele, deformed noses, hernia, hay fever...
Last week in Louisville, Joseph P. Wiegers, son-in-law of Bernarr Macfadden and Macfadden Publications chief of promotion-publicity was indicted for criminal conspiracy on charges of using a dictagraph to steal trade secrets. Most embarrassed U.S. publisher was Macfadden Publications (True Story, et al.), which last February ousted Bernarr Macfadden, promised to employ "new policies" after cleaning up a big watered-circulation scandal (TIME...
...marriage. // Cinemactress Ann Sothern announced a trial separation from Husband Roger Pryor, gave "our widely divergent activities" as the trouble, // Model Mary Bland Reynolds, Senator Robert R. Reynolds' 23-year-old daughter by his second wife, tried suicide by gas. Her mother blamed "a lovers' quarrel." // Bernarr Macfadden's daughter Byrniece sued musi-comedy veteran Georges Metaxa for an annulment, charging his Mexican divorce from his first wife was not legal. // Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara sued R.A.F. Pilot George Brown for an annulment, blamed "want of understanding." // Mining Heir Dana Dodge, 25, who was charged with...
...operation was last week performed to change the sex of a famed periodical. The new management of Macfadden Publications, busy with redecoration since its divorce from 73 -year-old Publisher Bernarr Macfadden last spring, converted Physical Culture from a muscle magazine for would-be strong men to a beauty magazine for women only...
Died. Dr. Robert George Jackson, 83, the Canadian Bernarr Macfadden; of cancer; near Toronto. Food faddist and exercise enthusiast for some 30 years, he said "God has provided the means by which we can always be well," lived chiefly on fruits, nuts and grain. Turning his faddery into a business, he manufactured wide-selling cereal foods, broadcast his picture in a breechclout. Canadians knew best his "Roman Meal"; U.S. citizens knew two other products whose trade names Alexander Woollcott shudderfully disclosed: "Lishus," and "Bekus Puddy...