Word: macfadden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrate my return to the Graphic I am giving away ten $100 bills . . .," loudly announced Publisher Bernarr Macfadden fortnight ago in his Manhattan tabloid. ". . . The Macfadden Magazines have required all of my time. I have not been in the Graphic office half a dozen times in the last two years...
Last week Publisher Macfadden began to make up for lost time. Upon the front of his Graphic he spread a full page "composograph" (faked picture) of a young man in Sing Sing's electric chair. The young man was Francis ("Two Gun") Crowley, 20, undersized, dull-witted hoodlum who murdered a policeman last year. His capture was a sensation of the sort on which he thrived. Cornered in a midtown apartment house with his 17-year-old girl friend and another gunman, he held off more than 100 police, armed with tear gas and machine guns, for two hours...
Buyers of the magazine were able Adman George S. Fowler, vice president of Pictorial Review since last April, and Lee Ellmaker, lately general manager of Macfadden Publications and publisher of Liberty since Macfadden bought it. Large and fat, Lee Ellmaker has the reputation of being a shrewd publisher. With the financial help of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott Vare, whom he had previously served as secretary, he established the tabloid Daily News in Philadelphia, built it up to be a moneymaker, sold control to Macfadden, whose only successful newspaper it now is. Because of his flair for economy...
...Nerts!", a crude imitation of Ballyhoo, is perpetrated by an obscure publisher in Manhattan. Slapstick, published by Harold Hersey, occasional associate of Bernarr ("Body-Love") Macfadden, is not itself an imitation, but a successor to Tickle-Me-Too (also Kersey's). TIME makes no attempt to report the contents of these smutsheets since an accurate report would necessitate reprinting the unprintable...
...swank Hotel St. Regis last week on one of his periodical visits to Manhattan, the Fawcetts were implored by large independent distributors of magazines to publish a competitor to Ballyhoo, which is circulated solely by American News Co. At first they demurred, until they heard that Bernarr Macfadden was about to enter the lists. Then, because it promised to be a free-for-all and not a private Fawcett v. Delacorte feud, the Fawcetts decided upon Hooey. First issue of 400,000 copies appeared to be a sellout. The first issue of any such publication might sell well, especially with...