Word: macfadden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story possibly attributable to such a source: that Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick was selling his interest in the Chicago Tribune to Gum Man William Wrigley Jr. and Advertising Man Albert Davis Lasker. The rumor gained wide currency last week because of the recent sale of Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden (TIME, April 13), but it brought only denials and loud laughter from the principals...
...city-rooms of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, editors gasped and whistled to themselves as they took a story. Their employers, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick and Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, suddenly, unexpectedly, had sold their nickel-weekly Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden...
...hands that take Liberty may be just what it needs. Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, as Macfadden Publications, Inc., has built up True Story Magazine in five years from an advertising revenue of $1,850,778 to $3,546,345. That he knows about circulation, too, is shown by the fact that his 13 magazines (Physical Culture, True Romance, True Detective Mysteries, etc.) have combined annual circulation of 56,000,000; Liberty's will make him third largest annual circulation-holder in the U. S.* Macfadden announced last week that Liberty's editorial policy would be continued unchanged. Just...
Natural enemies are Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden and New York's Society for the Suppression of Vice, founded by the late famed reformer Anthony Comstock and now headed by thin-lipped John Saxton Sumner. As early as 1905 Publisher Macfadden ran afoul of the Society because of a "Health Rally" in Madison Square Garden. Last week occurred another climax in the feud: Mr. Sumner's Society was awarded $10,000 damages in a $100,000 libel suit against Mr. Macfadden's tabloid Evening (porno) Graphic...
...agitating for abolition of the Society, stated what has been charged by many another foe of Censor Sumner: that the Society's operatives functioned as agents provocateurs, habitually duped reluctant booksellers and printers into selling contraband books or erotic pictures, and then arrested them. The Society sued. Publisher Macfadden engaged as counsel Morris L. Ernst, defender of many a "liberal" cause...