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...less illuminating. Radio, fiction and cinema pages were at parity. Macfadden's "health page" was unique but nothing to worry about, so they waited to see if Macfadden's disconnected, irrelevant "human interest" stories, in behalf of "clean living" and "the whole truth," would offer any competition to their own flashy news columns. They knew that if money could sharpen this competition, Macfadden had millions. They knew that he "expected to make a few million dollars for myself and associates" and would therefore force the fray. They realized that if The Graphic turned out successful, many another such...
...Other Macfadden publications in the U. S.. the character of which can be guessed at from the above and from the titles: Physical Culture, 300,000; True Romances, 400,000; Muscle Builder, 130,000; True Story, 1,750,000; True Detective, 150,000; Fiction Lovers, 125,000; Dream World, 150,000; Radio Stories, 150,000; Movie Weekly. 100,000; Dance Lovers...
...issue of July 14, TIME described in some detail the July number of Physical Culture Magazine, spoke of Editor Bernarr Macfadden as "the Nation's best-known body-worshipper," possessed of an apostolic zeal for "cultured" pictures, "frank statements," "plain advice...
...appears that Physical Culture and Editor Macfadden are not without friends. Writes a citizen of Washington, D. C.: "On page 24 of your issue of July 14, there is an article about Bernarr Macfadden that is very unfair. . . . He has millions of followers in the country...
...case, for example, will say that I was about to 'be given up with pneumonia when I took up the Macfadden system of obtaining health. I weighed 89 Ibs. After following it for years I weighed nearly 200 when I dropped it and recently I became too heavy and took up his exercises and diet while he was in Washington and have lost 36 Ibs. and never felt 'better in my life. This is a brief testimony which could be repeated by thousands of people...