Word: culturist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colonial family. When she was 14, she demanded that her name be taken off the rolls of the Presbyterian Church in Bridgeton, N.J., because she did not think it fair for some people to be destined for hell and others for heaven. She was, successively, a suffragette, Prohibitionist, Ethical Culturist, Single Taxer, a partisan of William Jennings Bryan, Eugene Debs and Upton Sinclair. When the Russian Revolution came along, she found the spiritual home for which she had searched so long...
When minority stockholders bought out his fat string of publications in 1941, one of the conditions was that the carrot-chomping millionaire physical culturist would give them no direct competition for the next five years. The five years are up in October. Last week, ancient (77) Bernarr Macfadden was all ready to announce the debut of the new Bernarr Macfadden's Detective Magazine, to appear then...
Died. Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis, sixtyish, onetime physical-culturist who dreamed of writing a big-seller and did it by chronicling in Trader Horn the fabulous and maybe apocryphal ivory-trading, gorilla-hunting adventures of chance-visitor Alfred Aloysius Smith; of a heart ailment; in Port Alfred, Cape Province, South Africa...
Killed in Action. Squadron Leader Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, 32, youngest brother of the boxing Duke of Hamilton, husband of Physical Culturist Prunella Stack, Britain's "Perfect Girl," with whom he toured England preaching wartime physical fitness...
Upton Sinclair, 65, vegetarian, moralist, Socialist, muckraker, politician, agnostic, Californian, abstainer, feminist, movie producer, violinist, physical culturist, antiFascist, antiCommunist; friend of Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Einstein; one of the most prolific U.S. authors (67 books, 500 pamphlets); prohibitionist son of a bibulous father and twice-married critic of American marital habits, last week gave book-length vent to his latest enthusiasm: Franklin Roosevelt...