Word: culturist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Helena Rubinstein started in Melbourne, Australia, in 1902 with a batch of homemade face cream from her native Poland, made $1,000,000 before she was 25, and invaded the U.S. in 1915, billing herself "The World's Greatest Beauty Culturist." She is now worth at least $100 million, collects paintings in her 26-room Park Avenue triplex, and has 14 portraits of herself by artists ranging from Dufy to Dali...
...Health Culturist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who celebrated his 83rd birthday last summer by parachuting into the Hudson River, was still muscle-bent on proving his favorite adage: ''This business of growing old is all nonsense." His plans for celebrating his 84th birthday next month: a trip to England and a parachute leap into the Thames...
...York, a blunt physical culturist submitted his candidates for the ten most beautiful women in America "if they would only lose ten pounds." Among them-Cinemactress Jane Russell, "four inches too big through the pectoralis muscles, both major and minor"; Actress Denise (Pardon Our French) Parcel, "one of the sexiest figures ever to grace our shores, but she's still ten pounds too sexy"; Tallulah Bankhead, "too much around the rectus abdominis region"; Anne (Kiss Me, Kate) Jeffreys, "a reduction in the gluteus muscles, both maximus and medius, is indicated...