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...great German family name in St. Louis is Taussig. Some are Gentiles, some Jews, some a mixture of both. Most eminent of the last are the doctor Brothers Taussig: Internist Albert Ernst, 64, a Unitarian; Gynecologist Frederick Joseph, 63, an Ethical Culturist. Like most male St. Louis Taussigs, both brothers went to Harvard for undergraduate education. They, and later Albert's two sons, returned to Washington University for medical training. Orphans of a wealthy Jewish banker-broker, reared by two spinster aunts, they lived well at school, got a running start in the practice of medicine...
These and other recent items of goldfish news were of special interest to a dark mustached little Japanese named Roy Nakashima as he went about his business of raising goldfish in Missouri's Ozark Mountains last week. Fish culturist of Ozark Fisheries. Inc.. Roy Nakashima last year raised and sold more than 500,000 goldfish. This year he expects to sell a million. Chief reason : Depression...
...magazine (price 25?) went in for "big names" and such personal success stories as "How Charles Dana Gibson Keeps Fit," "Leonard Wood, Physical Culturist." But after five years of it the Macfadden public became bored with inspirational wealth-through-health interviews and in 1926 Physical Culture added departments on food, householding, beauty and some inferior fiction...
Shockheaded, Missouri-born Bernarr Macfadden, Manhattan physical culturist and body-love publisher, with his large family of daughters and 200 health pilgrims, traveled by special train last week from Manhattan to the foot of the Castle Crags, near Redding, northern California. They reached there on Mr. Macfadden's 62nd birthday. While the pilgrims watched, dignitaries of the Redding Chamber of Commerce disclosed a bronze plaque fixed to the central peak, and unveiled a $70,000 airplane beacon (which Mr. Macfadden had paid for). The plaque designated the mountain as Macfadden Peak (TIME, July 7) "in recogni- tion...
Bernarr Macfadden, publisher, editor, physical culturist extraordinary, is to many in the U. S. a hissing and a byword; to many more he is a hero-prophet. Behold three books, issued by the same publisher on the same day, dedicated to him and his works. These books tell a good deal about Publisher-Editor-Physical Culturist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden...