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...research, so Mr. Macfadden decided to exalt physical culture by establishing a Bernarr Macfadden Foundation. The endowment : $5,000,000 interest in Macfadden real estate and publications {Physical Culture Magazine which has currently become dignified- TIME, Sept. 21; Liberty, True Story, and 17 other magazines; the New York tabloid [porno] Graphic and 5 other newspapers...
Like the New York Evening Post, the august Times last week gave an editorial shudder at the picture of a corpse on an autopsy table, front-paged by Macfadden's blatant Graphic (TIME. Sept. 28). The Times charged the tabloid with "ghoulishness," revealed that the forbidden picture had been snapped through a window which "may explain, but it only aggravates, the offense...
...wizened Willie Howard goes most of the credit for the show's fun. Rushing headlong through scene after scene, he is successively and inexhaustibly a plumber, a French general, a Hungarian doctor, a tabloid editor, a victim to his lawyer ("For Gott sake gif him de two dollas!"), a mustachioed French lover crawling over a blonde in a gondola...
Mechanically the picture was a variation of the "composograph" (faked picture) with which the Macfadden tabloid Evening Graphic used to sensationalize the news. "Composographs" are rarely used these days to simulate actual news photographs. The energy of news photographers and the license taken by tabloid editors make such devices unnecessary. When the trussed and battered body of Benjamin P. Collings was washed ashore on the sands of Long Island last week (see p. 17). News and Mirror obliged by printing large, close-up pictures of the muddy corpse as it lay on the beach. That put them one jump ahead...
Many a reader of the McCormick-Patterson tabloid New York Daily News, like many a reader of any newspaper, skips the editorials. But one day last week the News's editorial column was calculated to arrest the most cursory eye. On it appeared the picture of a pudgy male, clad only in underdrawers, squatting Gandhi-fashion at a spinning wheel. The body was the body of any corpulent, middle-aged man but the head was the head of Herbert Hoover...