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...President to advise his $50,000,000 National Youth Administration. Among them were: Owen D. Young, aged 60; William Green, 62; Psychologist Charles Hubbard Judd, 62; Bishop Francis John McConnell, 63; President Ernest Hiram Lindley of the University of Kansas, 65; Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim, 65, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 66. Some youngsters also got on the committee: A. A. Berle Jr., 40; Amelia Earhart Putnam...
Start. In Manhattan grizzled Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 66, and 46 other entrants in a race he sponsored, set out to walk to Dansville, N. Y. (325 mi.) nourished only by cracked wheat, brown sugar, cream and raisins. Among the contestants were: two grandmothers, from Houston and Detroit; one Irving Malman, 28, whose mother had him stopped by police when the race had gone two miles; a 69-year-old Memphis lumberman named Frank May, who bet a friend $3,000 he would finish the walk. The friend accompanied the race in a car pulling May's automobile trailer, equipped...
...tale for his magazine and then proceeds to fall in love with the writer, though she represents all the tolerant decadence of the society which he is fighting. A bombastic Senator with the heart of a child (Edward Everett Horton to us, "Bunny" to Marion) and an athletic publisher, Bernarr McFadden in caricature, would prevent the diary's publication. Marion might recall some facts about Bunny which would not make good reading for his constituents. In the play the clash of personalities is found irreconcilable with love, but in the picture--well, all is resolved happily...
Upton Sinclair has never broken himself of the colonizing habit. He went to Single Tax colonies at Fairhope, Ala. and Arden, Del. In 1909 it was "Physical Culture City" at Battle Creek, Mich., a health centre run by Bernarr Macfadden. At Battle Creek, discontented Meta Sinclair met Poet Harry Kemp, with whom she eloped two years later. And at Battle Creek, Upton Sinclair met his second wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, daughter of a wealthy judge of Greenwood, Miss. When they were married in 1913, Judge Kimbrough, who had no more use for a Socialist than for a Republican, turned...
Right here in Harvard Square there is a man who compares favorably with Lionel Strongfort, Earle Liederman, Charles Atlas and all the others who advertise regularly in Bernarr McFadden's lurid periodicals. But the fact that this gentleman confines himself almost entirely to Harvard students and portly professors, lends an air of respectability to his course in physical development...