Word: bernarr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Health Culturist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who celebrated his 83rd birthday last summer by parachuting into the Hudson River, was still muscle-bent on proving his favorite adage: ''This business of growing old is all nonsense." His plans for celebrating his 84th birthday next month: a trip to England and a parachute leap into the Thames...
...approached his 83rd birthday this year, Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who loves carrots and publicity, was overcome by a recurring conviction: he was still a boy because he had quaffed quantities of buttermilk and vegetable juice all his life. To prove his youth, Macfadden decided to parachute out of an airplane over Niagara Falls. When horrified U.S. and Canadian officials forbade the stunt, Macfadden let it be known that he would jump out over New York's George Washington Bridge. The cops threatened to arrest...
Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who made a parachute jump on his 81st birthday, changed his mind about parachuting into the Niagara River to celebrate his 83rd, decided instead to mark the event at home in Dansville, N.Y. by simply eating a whole wheat cake and announcing a prize of $1,000 for the best three-act play about his life...
...Manhattan last week, Berwyn Macfadden, 27, son of Muscle-Magazine Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, answered his wife's cruelty charge in court: "I told my wife all of five times how to fix my salad. I was very nice about it. I kept saying, 'Please don't put green peppers in my salad.' I said, 'Please put green peppers in YOUR salad, but don't put them in MINE.' So when it came out the fifth time, I got mad as hell. I repeated, 'PLEASE DO NOT PUT GREEN PEPPERS IN MY SALAD...
...post office felt that Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's mail-order books on home treatment for cancer, heart trouble, arthritis and hay fever had a faintly phony odor. Called on to show cause why his books should not be barred from the mails, the 82-year-old musclebuilder, now in California, said the challenge had made him "feel ten years younger...