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...Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden had kept his bargain, and now the time...
...America of 1946 was discovered by the judges at the A.A.U.'s national weight-lifting tournament to be an ex-sailor named Alan Stephan. He came from Cicero, Ill. and looked like a collaboration between Rome's Michelangelo, Paris' Rodin and Manhattan's Bernarr MacFadden...
...News, with Hearst's Mirror and Bernarr Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...
Divorced. By Bernarr Adolphus ("Body Beautiful") Macfadden, 77, "physcultopathic" ex-publisher of Liberty, True Story, a raft of others, hardy perennial in the Garden of Love: Mary Williamson Macfadden, fiftyish, onetime British beauty contest winner; after 18 years of "perfect union," 15 of separation, days in court without number, seven children (he accused her of "humiliating" him by losing her figure) ; in Miami...
...columnists. He liked to quote people accurately, even if they were talking in their cups. And he did not set himself up as an international answer man. The female form does not loom as large in Wilson's column as it once did. Now he covers events like Bernarr Macfadden's stand-on-your-head religion, Cosmotari-anism. Reported Wilson: "They got mat burns at last Sunday's sermon. . . ." He interviewed Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura after the critics panned his new show, and reported it, in pure Kiepurese: "The public love oss. They dizagree with the critics...