Word: macfadden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernarr Macfadden, 63, who started life as a puny Missouri hillbilly, who made himself into a professional strongman and later a millionaire publisher on the body-love theme, last week arranged to perpetuate his fame and elevate his prestige. Even as John D. Rockefeller improved the odor of his oil millions by establishing the Rockefeller Foundation for medical research, so Mr. Macfadden decided to exalt physical culture by establishing a Bernarr Macfadden Foundation. The endowment : $5,000,000 interest in Macfadden real estate and publications {Physical Culture Magazine which has currently become dignified- TIME, Sept. 21; Liberty, True Story...
...Bernarr Macfadden has been utterly sincere in his physical culture theories. His Foundation is solemnly incorporated "to maintain, conduct and operate educational activities, including schools and institutions, in which the said health building methods are taught; to establish scholarships and foundations and other means of support for advocates of the said health building methods ... to maintain sanitariums and other institu tions . . . gymnasiums and camps and other outdoor recreational facilities . . . to promote amongst all classes of people the knowledge of right living and health ful living and the care of their bodies, which are essential to right living and good citizenship...
While Philanthropist Macfadden lives and continues able, he intends to control his Foundation as autocratically as he controls his magazines and newspapers. After his death or upon his disability, trusted executives of his corporation are to run the Foundation in conjunction with his blood relatives (he has five daughters, two sons). Directors and employes may pay themselves with 25% of the Foundation's income...
Like the New York Evening Post, the august Times last week gave an editorial shudder at the picture of a corpse on an autopsy table, front-paged by Macfadden's blatant Graphic (TIME. Sept. 28). The Times charged the tabloid with "ghoulishness," revealed that the forbidden picture had been snapped through a window which "may explain, but it only aggravates, the offense...
Mechanically the picture was a variation of the "composograph" (faked picture) with which the Macfadden tabloid Evening Graphic used to sensationalize the news. "Composographs" are rarely used these days to simulate actual news photographs. The energy of news photographers and the license taken by tabloid editors make such devices unnecessary. When the trussed and battered body of Benjamin P. Collings was washed ashore on the sands of Long Island last week (see p. 17). News and Mirror obliged by printing large, close-up pictures of the muddy corpse as it lay on the beach. That put them one jump ahead...