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Scandal. In Bernarr Macfadden's Photoplay appeared an article called Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives, purporting to "expose" the relationships of couples like Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, Virginia Pine and George Raft, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin, Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland. Excerpts: "Barbara freezes homemade ice-cream for Bob from a recipe his mother gave her. . . . Before George and Virginia teamed up as a tight little twosome, George gloried in flashy, extremely-cut clothes. ... No real father could be more infatuated than George with Virginia's five-year...
Students at New York's City College have become accustomed to discovering that their pompous college officials have feet of clay. Four years ago they tittered when their president, bland Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, wrote an article for Bernarr Macfadden's sensational True Story Magazine. Last week City College's students caught another member of the administration in an embarrassing position...
Through his publicity agent, Bernarr Macfadden, 70, let it be known he had bought from Flier Jacqueline Cochran Odium a low-wing Northrop "Gamma" monoplane which Howard Hughes flew when he established his 1936 U. S. cross-country record (9 hr. 26 min. 10 sec.). With his new 225-m.p.h. plane, Publisher Macfadden, who has had 1,100 hours of solo flying, promises he will compete for the Bendix Trophy (Los Angeles to Cleveland, Sept...
...Fulton Oursler was founding the tabloid New York Graphic for Bernarr Macfadden. Through a vaudeville friend named Norman Frescott, Winchell met Oursler, whose poetry Winchell had been cheerfully rejecting from the Vaudeville News. Oursler said he thought the rejections showed good editorial judgment, hired Winchell for $100 a week to be the Graphic's theatre critic and conduct a column first called "Broadway Hearsay," later "Your Broadway and Mine." The first item was some verse by "W. W." entitled A Newspaper Poet's Love...
...Bernarr Macfadden's New York Daily Investment News was only five months old, but wisdom issued from its presses. It advised its readers: "Get out of the market, losses or no losses." The eternal credit that it gained by that advice did not save it from the hard times which descended upon it and Wall Street's three other financial dailies.* Not until 1935 did Mr. Macfadden heed his own good advice by selling the Investment News. Last week his successor, Haydock ("Eternal Optimist") Miller, followed Macfadden's precept and example by bowing the Investment News...