Word: bernarr
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...footnote on your gymnastic and unfailingly interesting letters page in TIME, Sept. 26 you reprove† Subscriber A. F. Higgins for inquiring about "Bernard" Macfadden. You point out that this publisher and physical culture bug spells his name "Bernarr." You know pretty nearly everything. Where did he get that nobby name...
...mistake. The name is Bernarr...
...after the Sacco-Vanzetti execution the Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' sheetlet published in Manhattan by Bernarr Macfadden, blazed on the newsstands with a huge headline...
...Reporter Kenneth Campbell's pocket Pastor Straton noted a copy of Bernarr Macfadden's tabloid Graphic, and asked to see it. The reporter described: "The family gathered around the bed to inspect it. At the first glance Dr. Straton sat bolt upright and Mrs. Straton who was holding the newspaper emitted sorrowful clucks. The-pastor's noseglasses slipped from his nose and he fumbled for them among the covers, retrieved them and put them in place. His eyes narrowed with anger as he looked at the picture...
...illustration, a composite, falsified photograph of the type which Bernarr Macfadden's hireling's paste together, showed Warren Badenock kneeling in a cathedral-like room. His hands were clasped unctuously, and on his face was an arch and radiant expression. Above him, with right hand upraised, stood his father, austere, sanctimonious...