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...Gauvreau explained: "It probably won't be long before I'll become editor of another New York newspaper. I hope so, anyway. I have no intention of retiring at the age of 37. I resigned from the Graphic because I disagreed heartily with Mr. Macfadden on vital and essential matters of policies, not only of his newspaper but of his other publications as well. I would never work for Mr. Macfadden again under any circumstances...
Further discourse on what he meant by "vital and essential matters of policies" Mr. Gauvreau would not give. Other newsmen guessed that Editor Gauvreau, a real newspaperman at heart and no Macfaddist, had gotten sick of the daily freak he had created to please Publisher Macfadden. The Graphic, a pink tabloid with the slogan "nothing but the truth," is scarcely newspaper. Torch murders, gang war, divorce cases, scandal, gossip, rumor, crime, are its main contents, dished up for an illiterate public with girl pictures, fan tastic "composographs" and "editorials" by unique Bernarr Macfadden...
...everyone knows, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's most famed magazines concern themselves with "confessions" of sex-conscious girls who go wrong, see the light, reform. They are: True Story, True Experiences, True Romances, Dream World. To comply with postal laws, intimate sex details are usually represented by three asterisks...
...tabloid newspaper, a new color scheme, appeared in the hands of Detroit newsboys last fortnight. It was called the Detroit Daily Illustrated (7 p. m. to 9 a. m. edition). The color scheme: white, then green, then pink. Its proprietor is Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of two other gum-chewers' sheetlets, New York's Graphic, Philadelphia's Daily News. This is the second new Macfadden publication venture within the last month. His other one: New York Investment News (TIME. April...
Certainly Publisher Macfadden understands his People and its desires. He gives himself freely to it. The People wants pictures, and many a picture of Publisher Macfadden it has seen. The people wants human interest stories and many a story it has read about Publisher Macfadden, his wife and their many lusty offspring. The Macfadden publications are not ahead of the People or behind the People; they are of the People...