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...affection. More than 250,000 readers have paid $60 a set for Macfadden's Encyclopedia of Health and Physical Culture, an eight-volume guide to diet, disease and happy sex relations. Only 88,000-by his own count-pay 25? a copy for Physical Culture, which purveys similar Macfaddist notions about "Adam & Eve Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Adam & Eve Power | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Heroine | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Heroine | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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