Word: macfadden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernarr Macfadden (then Kinistherapist Bernard Adolphus McFadden) invented a massaging device. To advertise it he brought out a 5? pamphlet consisting principally of a serial called "The Athlete's Conquest" with cover illustrations of "Professor B. McFadden in Classical Poses." The pamphlet far outsold the massager, became the Professor's chief interest as Physical Culture magazine...
...duty on magazines with more than 20% advertising would be 2? a copy; on magazines with 30% advertising, 5? a copy. Unsold copies are included. Exempt would be educational, scientific, religious journals if they contain less than 20% advertising. Last week two periodicals took steps. They were Bernarr Macfadden's Love Story and Western Story. They made arrangements to have their Canadian editions printed in Toronto, thus avoiding the tariff. No big U.S. publications were expected to follow suit. If & when the tariff is levied, TIME will cost Canadians 20%. On the cover will be printed "Reason: tariff...
Married. Byrnece Macfadden, 19, of Englewood. X. J., daughter of Publisher Bernarr Macfadden (Physical Culture Magazine, True Story, New York Evening Graphic); and one Louis Ignatius Muckerman of St. Louis...
...Bazaar, Motor, and Motor Boating; as of Oct. 1; after nearly 13 years employment; to become chairman of Richard R. Smith Inc., book publishers, which he organized last year. His Cosmopolitan successor: Harry Payne Burton, 45, onetime editor of McCall's Magazine, currently editor of Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture and consulting editor of Liberty...
...Bernarr Macfadden, 62, publisher, being free of organic disease or any defect which would interfere with safe handling of an airplane; and having executed five gentle and three steep figure8 turns, three landings and a spiral from 2,000 ft., last week was awarded a private pilot's license by the Department of Commerce...