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...city-rooms of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, editors gasped and whistled to themselves as they took a story. Their employers, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick and Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, suddenly, unexpectedly, had sold their nickel-weekly Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden...
Natural enemies are Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden and New York's Society for the Suppression of Vice, founded by the late famed reformer Anthony Comstock and now headed by thin-lipped John Saxton Sumner. As early as 1905 Publisher Macfadden ran afoul of the Society because of a "Health Rally" in Madison Square Garden. Last week occurred another climax in the feud: Mr. Sumner's Society was awarded $10,000 damages in a $100,000 libel suit against Mr. Macfadden's tabloid Evening (porno) Graphic...
...Bernarr Macfadden's Evening Graphic shrieked its loudest in great front-page streamers: ROTHSTEIN MURDER CLUE BARED BY VIVIAN'S PAL, and 20 MEN OWED VI $100,000; DIARY REVEALS LOVE RING...
...Bernarr Macfadden. "Probably he has done far more good than David Livingstone and a thousand other missionaries...
With something more than a sly wink at Colyumist Calvin Coolidge (TIME, June 30) the New York Evening Graphic, sexy Bernarr Macfadden tabloid, last week began a daily feature by wisecracking Nightclub Hostess Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan.- Headed "Texas Guinan Says" the article is typographically arranged much like "Calvin Coolidge Says" which serious newspapers buy from McClure Newspaper Syndicate. First half-dozen articles were typically in the heavy-handed Guinan manner, supporting her insistence that she was writing every word, employing no "ghost." Excerpts: "Well, Cal, they've got me doing it now. . . . We can work together...