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...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 diet-&-exercise cure which is supposed to correct 150 human miseries, including acidosis, alcoholism, apoplexy, gout, impotence, lowered vitality, masturbation, ptomaine poisoning, sleepwalking, sterility and writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Macfadden's Family | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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