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...lucrative side lines. There are Major Bowes highball glasses, decorated with pictures of cat & dog amateurs; Major Bowes cotton fabrics, also decorated with amateurs; the Major Bowes alarm clock which rouses sluggards with a gong; the 25? Major Bowes' Amateur Magazine; the weekly Amateur Writers Page in Bernarr MacFadden's Liberty ; a parchesi-like Major Bowes Game; two monthly movie shorts; and 14 traveling shows or "units' of amateurs who have appeared on the radio program, playing theatres all over the U. S. Over head of Bowes Inc. would include $5 weekly to 14 or 15 amateurs...
...right there by all those who heard two other Journalism Week orators. Bronzed, bushy-haired Publisher Bernarr Macfadden of Liberty, True Story, True Romances and Physical Culture took the platform to explain the secret of his success in the publishing business, part of which he credited to curiosity...
...pays to ask questions," declared body-loving Publisher Macfadden. "Take my hotel down in Florida. If you could see how the girls dress down there! Nothing but a pair of shorts and two breast cups. It pays to ask questions! [Ribald laughter.] I'm sure you boys aren't thinking the same thing...
...rich in such varied activities as cattle, sugar, matches, liquor, the Barco Concession has had a purple history. After sinking more than $100,000 of his personal fortune in development work, General Barco put his concession on the market. Through the intervention of a seasoned promoter named Carl Kendrick MacFadden, most of the Barco went to Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service Co. A minority interest was taken by Carib Syndicate, then headed by Mr. MacFadden. Cities Service grew tired of the responsibilities of jungle oil and in 1926 sold it to Andrew William Mellon's Gulf...
...Ogden L. Mills pounded away at "demoralized" New Deal spending. In Manhattan, Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish Jr. hazarded an eight-point landing on the Republican platform. In Sacramento, Governor Frank Merriam announced that he was not opposing friends' efforts on his behalf. In Chicago, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden opened up campaign headquarters...