Word: oursler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editorial offices buzzed early this year when Charles Fulton Oursler, 44, well-paid editor-in-chief for Bernarr Macfadden's 5? weekly Liberty magazine, popped into the spotlight with a $150,000 libel suit against his employer's estranged wife, Mary Macfadden (TIME, Feb. 1). Editor Oursler charged she had written three nasty letters about him, one to New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, two to Hoffman's secretary. One of the alleged letters went so far as to suggest that Mr. Oursler might have conspired the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, intending to glorify Bernarr Macfadden by having...
...Poet, Maurice Sapienza and Peter Robert Viereck will be added to the ballot, and for the position of Odist, William Charles Oursler was nominated...
Macfadden had referred to Mr. Oursler thus: "This Fulton Oursler came into our employment about 14 or 15 years ago with only $50 to his name, but with an abundance of shrewdness through his former work as a magician and hypnotist and was soon able to influence Macfadden in nearly every action. He played upon Mr. Macfadden's love of publicity. ... It is my firm belief that Mr. Oursler conceived and conspired with Gaston B. Means and others, the plan to take and hold for ransom the Lindbergh child (without intent to kill or harm it), only for publicity...
...letter quoted was a crude forgery which a blackmailer had prepared for the embarrassment of Mrs. Macfadden. They also said that two letters were actually written by Mrs. Macfadden to Governor Hoffman's secretary in which, as one who had "suffered," she expressed ''suspicions" about Mr. Oursler and the Lindbergh case. Her attorney added that though Mrs. Macfadden had urged the Governor to keep these letters confidential, he nevertheless turned them over to his "good friend, Fulton Oursler," who had also obtained the supposedly palpable fake. So crowded is the New York County's Supreme Court...
...Jafsie" articles ran their course, pleased Liberty's public, were soon forgotten. Last fortnight, a strange reverberation of Editor Oursler's interest in the Lindbergh case was heard when it was revealed that he had filed suit against Mrs. Mary Macfadden, divorced wife of Publisher Macfadden (and mother of his five daughters), for allegedly accusing him not merely of making editorial capital of the case, but of actually conspiring to steal the Lindbergh child. Asking $150,000 for libel, Mr. Oursler announced that this fantastic charge was contained in a long rigmarole which Mrs. Macfadden allegedly wrote...