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Even in the grave, Health Hound Bernarr Macfadden, who died three years ago at 87, seemed unsafe from the fury of a woman scorned. In a Miami court, Mary Williamson Macfadden, third of his four wives, described her faddist ex as a "predatory philanderer" and a "lecherous spouse," asked that his divorce from her of twelve years ago be set aside on the grounds of fraud and perjury...
...biographies suggest, money on a big scale becomes a kind of magic potion. Common crotchets are taken for the stigmata of genius; petty fears mushroom to paranoia. A Gulbenkian day began with setting-up exercises. Swedish massage and a bowl of yoghurt. Mr Five Per Cent was a health faddist, and for a time lived on a massive diet of carrots washed down with turnip juice. His father had lived to 106. and Gulbenkian fully expected to reach 120. To avoid dust, he sat only on leather cushions, slept on a leather mattress, and had the air of his Paris...
...Cliff. Born the son of a diet-faddist physician on a ranch near Palm Springs, Calif., Gibson grew up haunted with "recurrent dreams about clawing my way up the face of a cliff." At 18 he clawed his way onto the old Los Angeles Record because "at the time I was under the misapprehension that being on an afternoon paper meant that you worked only in the afternoon." Ever since, through numberless odd jobs on newspapers and in radio, he has been getting up "at the crack of dawn and hating every morning...
Scoreboard ¶Australia's Murray Rose, the 17-year-old, flipper-footed food faddist who trains on seaweed jelly and experiments with hypnotism, churned 440 yds. at the New-South Wales swimming championships in a world record 4:27.1, passed the 400-meter mark on the way in a world record 4:25.9. When he caught his breath. Rose announced that he would visit the U.S. in the spring "to look around some universities," but admitted that Yale's ubiquitous swimming coach, Bob Kiphuth, had already all but sold him on the beauties of New Haven...
...alcoholic father and a tuberculous mother, Macfadden was an orphan at eight. In 1898 he founded Physical Culture magazine ("Weakness is a crime. Don't be a criminal''). By 1931 he admitted to a fortune of $30 million. Married four times and the father of nine, Faddist Macfadden's simpler tenets included "grass eating, having babies without doctors, standing on your head to make your hair grow." He favored one-legged squatting exercises, no alcohol, no steaks (lunch varied from grass tea and pea soup to nuts, beet juice and carrot strips). He pioneered in popularizing...