Word: macfaddens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Search for Beauty might have begun as a satire on Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's hook-up of health and sex, but it ended by emulating it. Exhibited in an elaborate calisthenic routine are chesty males in shorts; slim females in bathing suits...
Englewood. N. J., on the highlands opposite Manhattan, is a community of wealthy burghers, like Banker Seward Prosser, Editor Bertie Charles Forbes, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, Mental Hygienist Clifford Whittingham Beers, onetime Second Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow. Intelligent, they make certain, when they hire servants, that the help are healthy. But they cannot be sure with whom their employes run around on off days. This became shockingly evident when Dr. John Hawkins Irwin, Englewood health director, traced the eye infections and subsequent blindness of several Englewood children to gonorrhea in their nursemaids. So Englewood burghers...