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Sued for Divorce. Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 65, and Mary Macfadden; by each other; in Trenton, N. J. Mutual charges: misconduct. Publisher Macfadden further charged that his wife, ridiculing his gospel of physical culture, encouraged their six daughters to "smoke and drink in swanky speakeasies...
...Pageant is essentially an amateur flyers' affair, with enough open events to attract a few big-name professionals. Preludes to the meet were a night transcontinental race from Los Angeles and an ingenious ''treasure hunt." Some 70 sportsmen pilots entered the treasure hunt, sponsored by Pilot Bernarr Macfadden to advertise his Liberty magazine. The hunters were to start at St. Louis, hunt across country to Long Island for successive letters of LIBERTY spread in white cloth on the ground...
...reveries inspired by a sweet pipe-smoke, a pipe-smoke like unto those described in mild, mellow, expensive advertising, the Vagabond has often pondered the decay of magazine editors. Following a train of thought induced by mention of Messers George Horace Lorimer, Bernarr McFadden, and Lincoln Kirstein, he has publicly bewailed the loss of effusions such as those of the youthful Lincoln Steffens. What an opening there is for editors who can today, blud-goon graft and corruption with sweetness and light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There...
Editrix Hersey is the divorced wife of one Harold Hersey who formerly edited magazines for Bernarr Macfadden. She is gentle-mannered, motherly, with grey bobbed hair, a member of the D. A. R. and Order of the Eastern Star. Daughter of a Methodist minister (there are 25 Methodist ministers, mostly missionaries, in her family), she was graduated from Willamette, a Methodist university in Oregon. At various times she worked in Washington as secretary to onetime Congressman George E. Foss of Illinois; in the Bureau of Education; in the horticultural board of the Department of Agriculture; as a researcher...
...October a Manhattan detective had just settled down to enjoy the latest issue of Bernarr Macfadden's True Detective Mysteries when a face staring from the pages made him jump. The face was that of a man whose furtive behavior he had marked while strolling his beat a few days before. The caption identified him?Walter Clyde Davis, wanted in Colorado Springs for embezzling $500,000. Last week the detective found his man again, arrested him. Unprotesting, Davis went along, hanged himself in his cell...