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...President to advise his $50,000,000 National Youth Administration. Among them were: Owen D. Young, aged 60; William Green, 62; Psychologist Charles Hubbard Judd, 62; Bishop Francis John McConnell, 63; President Ernest Hiram Lindley of the University of Kansas, 65; Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim, 65, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 66. Some youngsters also got on the committee: A. A. Berle Jr., 40; Amelia Earhart Putnam...
Start. In Manhattan grizzled Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 66, and 46 other entrants in a race he sponsored, set out to walk to Dansville, N. Y. (325 mi.) nourished only by cracked wheat, brown sugar, cream and raisins. Among the contestants were: two grandmothers, from Houston and Detroit; one Irving Malman, 28, whose mother had him stopped by police when the race had gone two miles; a 69-year-old Memphis lumberman named Frank May, who bet a friend $3,000 he would finish the walk. The friend accompanied the race in a car pulling May's automobile trailer, equipped...
Upton Sinclair has never broken himself of the colonizing habit. He went to Single Tax colonies at Fairhope, Ala. and Arden, Del. In 1909 it was "Physical Culture City" at Battle Creek, Mich., a health centre run by Bernarr Macfadden. At Battle Creek, discontented Meta Sinclair met Poet Harry Kemp, with whom she eloped two years later. And at Battle Creek, Upton Sinclair met his second wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, daughter of a wealthy judge of Greenwood, Miss. When they were married in 1913, Judge Kimbrough, who had no more use for a Socialist than for a Republican, turned...
Unaware or indifferent that it had been scooped, Bernarr Macfadden's Liberty lately sought the answer to the same question. Last week it splashed its answer in a leading article, loudly advertised it in newspaper full pages...
...Sunday features from coast to coast. In 1913 Hearst's American Weekly serialized The Story of My Life, by Evelyn Thaw. In 1914 it appeared as a paper-covered book. In 1926 Hearst's King Features syndicated Evelyn Nesbit's Own Story. A year later Bernarr Macfadden's defunct New York Evening Graphic ran a series about her. Last year King Features thought it was about time again to tell People Who Think the whole story...