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...your issue of Sept. 21 in an article regarding Macfadden Publications you made the statement, "Since going under the Macfadden banner, Photoplay has lost circulation, but continues to make money...
Last year Publisher Macfadden acquired one of the handsomest of cinema fan magazines in the late James R. Quirk's Photoplay. Since going under the Macfadden banner, Photoplay has lost circulation, but continues to make money...
...Presidential campaign, Liberty was almost a house organ for Nominee Franklin Roosevelt. That year 17 Roosevelt articles appeared in Liberty, culminating in a post-election Rooseveltian "message to the public" called The Election-An Interpretation. This year Publisher Macfadden, who no longer approves of Contributor Roosevelt's policies, came forward in his own person as a Republican possibility, announced with no false modesty that, if elected, he would annul "fool laws," put down "racketeers." Before the Cleveland Convention in June, Candidate Macfadden was briefly touted by friends, including Novelist Thomas Dixon. Depth of Mr. Macfadden's political thinking...
...Manhattan tabloid, the Evening Graphic, Publisher Macfadden thought he had the beginning of a chain of mass newspapers to rival that of William Randolph Hearst. To newsmen's surprise, the Graphic never caught on, though it did set alltime journalistic marks for sensational incoherence. In 1932, after a scheme to unload the failing sheet on its employes had been abandoned, Publisher Macfadden regretfully jettisoned the Graphic. Main money-makers for Mr. Macfadden have been the pioneer sex-confession magazine True Story, for which he claims the largest monthly newsstand circulation of any magazine on earth (total...
Avowed purpose of the Foundation is "to propagate the principles of health building." Its various health institutes charge substantial fees, cash in advance. A Macfadden Foundation patron might conceivably place his son in Educator Macfadden's Castle Heights Military Academy at Lebanon, Tenn. (tuition $650), spend the winter at Host Macfadden's New Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, and so debilitate himself in that winter sporting capital as to require a season at "Physcultopathist" Macfadden's Physical Culture Hotel at Dansville, N. Y. (rates $33.50 to $80 per week, with extras). There he might choose a Macfadden...