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...Macfadden Advts...
...appearance of this advertisement coupled with the recent news space you have given to the Great Body Lover [Bernarr Macfadden] may cause some wonder if TIME is not another of Kis journalistic ventures...
CHATS WITH THE MACFADDEN FAMILY -Grace Perkins-Lewis Copeland...
...Bernarr Macfadden, publisher, editor, physical culturist extraordinary, is to many in the U. S. a hissing and a byword; to many more he is a hero-prophet. Behold three books, issued by the same publisher on the same day, dedicated to him and his works. These books tell a good deal about Publisher-Editor-Physical Culturist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden...
...became an adept gymnast, an expert Greco-Roman wrestler. He entered the lightweight national tournament, won it; challenged Chicago's welterweight champion, flattened him in four minutes; challenged Chicago's Heavyweight Champion Frank Whitmore, downed him in 91 minutes. After unsuccessful tries as acrobat and laundryman, Macfadden announced himself as a "kinistherapist, teacher of higher physical culture." He wrote a novel, The Athlete's Conquest, was shocked to learn that it was "poorly expressed, crude and ungrammatical." (He afterwards published it, revised, in his Physical Culture Magazine...