Word: macfadden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macfadden had referred to Mr. Oursler thus: "This Fulton Oursler came into our employment about 14 or 15 years ago with only $50 to his name, but with an abundance of shrewdness through his former work as a magician and hypnotist and was soon able to influence Macfadden in nearly every action. He played upon Mr. Macfadden's love of publicity. ... It is my firm belief that Mr. Oursler conceived and conspired with Gaston B. Means and others, the plan to take and hold for ransom the Lindbergh child (without intent to kill or harm it), only for publicity...
Questioned as to Mrs. Macfadden's version of the case, they said that the letter quoted was a crude forgery which a blackmailer had prepared for the embarrassment of Mrs. Macfadden. They also said that two letters were actually written by Mrs. Macfadden to Governor Hoffman's secretary in which, as one who had "suffered," she expressed ''suspicions" about Mr. Oursler and the Lindbergh case. Her attorney added that though Mrs. Macfadden had urged the Governor to keep these letters confidential, he nevertheless turned them over to his "good friend, Fulton Oursler," who had also obtained...
Editor-in-chief of Liberty and adviser to many another of the lucrative, mass-appealing, Macfadden Magazines* is a remarkable character named Charles Fulton Oursler. A former law clerk and Baltimore reporter, Mr. Oursler has written a successful melodrama (The Spider), a number of novels, a series of detective stories, and a book on travel and religion called A Skeptic in the Holy Land. Mr. Oursler is a capable prestidigitator and, say some, an expert ventriloquist. Tweed-coated, narrow-chinned, high of brow, Mr. Oursler has a vaguely ministerial appearance. This facile and versatile literary man does his writing...
...Jafsie" articles ran their course, pleased Liberty's public, were soon forgotten. Last fortnight, a strange reverberation of Editor Oursler's interest in the Lindbergh case was heard when it was revealed that he had filed suit against Mrs. Mary Macfadden, divorced wife of Publisher Macfadden (and mother of his five daughters), for allegedly accusing him not merely of making editorial capital of the case, but of actually conspiring to steal the Lindbergh child. Asking $150,000 for libel, Mr. Oursler announced that this fantastic charge was contained in a long rigmarole which Mrs. Macfadden allegedly wrote...
...Review's inside back cover, a standing feature was "Lady Houston's Cold Cure," for she, like America's Bernarr Macfadden, fancied herself as a health authority. A stern course of nostrums beloved by Britons (Gee's Cough Linctus, Langdale's Cinnamon, Byard's Oil), the cure was dedicated by its inventor to suffering mankind with this benediction: "If this remedy cures you, and I hope and believe it will, please report to me, and in payment let your fee be-just saying-God bless Lady Houston...