Word: macfadden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sanity with Macfadden...
Attracted by his declaration that the Republican nomination for President is "an honor no American can afford to refuse" (TIME, Sept. 30), the New York Herald Tribune sent a newshawk to listen to Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story, Physical Culture. Trying to look like the vibrant male who had himself photographed in "classical poses" in the 1890's, Publisher Macfadden fingered a little pile of tooth picks on his desk. "I always say," he glowed, "that I'm 67 years old and 25 years young. ... I only eat when I'm hungry : sometimes...
Said Henry Ford: "Me a candidate for the Presidency? I wouldn't have it!" Said Publisher Bernarr Adolphus MacFadden (Physical Culture, True Stories, True Romances}: "If the nomination should come to me, it is an honor no American could afford to refuse. . . ." Said General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler: "Give me $5,000,000 and I'll elect a Chinaman President...
...President to advise his $50,000,000 National Youth Administration. Among them were: Owen D. Young, aged 60; William Green, 62; Psychologist Charles Hubbard Judd, 62; Bishop Francis John McConnell, 63; President Ernest Hiram Lindley of the University of Kansas, 65; Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim, 65, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 66. Some youngsters also got on the committee: A. A. Berle Jr., 40; Amelia Earhart Putnam...
Start. In Manhattan grizzled Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 66, and 46 other entrants in a race he sponsored, set out to walk to Dansville, N. Y. (325 mi.) nourished only by cracked wheat, brown sugar, cream and raisins. Among the contestants were: two grandmothers, from Houston and Detroit; one Irving Malman, 28, whose mother had him stopped by police when the race had gone two miles; a 69-year-old Memphis lumberman named Frank May, who bet a friend $3,000 he would finish the walk. The friend accompanied the race in a car pulling May's automobile trailer, equipped...