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...marriage. // Cinemactress Ann Sothern announced a trial separation from Husband Roger Pryor, gave "our widely divergent activities" as the trouble, // Model Mary Bland Reynolds, Senator Robert R. Reynolds' 23-year-old daughter by his second wife, tried suicide by gas. Her mother blamed "a lovers' quarrel." // Bernarr Macfadden's daughter Byrniece sued musi-comedy veteran Georges Metaxa for an annulment, charging his Mexican divorce from his first wife was not legal. // Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara sued R.A.F. Pilot George Brown for an annulment, blamed "want of understanding." // Mining Heir Dana Dodge, 25, who was charged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hollywood Dollar-Dolors | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Robert George Jackson, 83, the Canadian Bernarr Macfadden; of cancer; near Toronto. Food faddist and exercise enthusiast for some 30 years, he said "God has provided the means by which we can always be well," lived chiefly on fruits, nuts and grain. Turning his faddery into a business, he manufactured wide-selling cereal foods, broadcast his picture in a breechclout. Canadians knew best his "Roman Meal"; U.S. citizens knew two other products whose trade names Alexander Woollcott shudderfully disclosed: "Lishus," and "Bekus Puddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 28, 1941 | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

Just how much True Story's 1940 circulation figures were padded (TIME, May 12) was revealed last week by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. In return for Macfadden bonuses, newsdealers in 1940 reported the sale of a total of 906,475 unsold True Story magazines, padding circulation an average of 75,540 copies a month. For the first four months True Story's real circulation was well over the 2,000,000 guaranteed advertisers. But thereafter it fell below the guarantee and distributors really started making unsold copies disappear: in May they "ate" 57,218 copies; in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Padded Circulation | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...their sales quotas. As the bonuses were scaled it was made profitable for distributors to "eat" copies-i.e., to destroy unsold copies instead of returning them, since the bonus was big enough to leave something over after a distributor had paid for the copies he destroyed. Because the MacFadden account was a profitable one, the distributors "ate" copies and liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scandal in Circulation | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

This scandal from the past was not the only one which last week still haunted the MacFadden enterprises. In the courts are three minority stockholders' suits against retired Bernarr MacFadden for company money allegedly spent trying to wangle the Republican Presidential nomination in 1936 and on his Foundation charities. MacFadden called it a "trumped-up" suit. But out of the $600,000 paid him to "relinquish control" he agreed to turn back $300,000 and 22,000 shares of preferred stock to settle the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scandal in Circulation | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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