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...there in full potency. But in 30 years Bernarr Macfadden's taste in presentation has improved. Instead of photographs of the publisher clad only in an abdominal supporter to illustrate his lectures on "physcultopathy" there are chastely presented "personal messages," no more offensive to the eye than a Bruce Barton editorial. Instead of testimonials of persons who "cured themselves'' of asthma, rheumatism, appendicitis "by natural methods," there are articles on dietetics, child guidance, prevention of tooth infection, by qualified authorities. Instead of hints for the enlargement of the female bosom there is an article by Muriel Draper...
...Sullivan 39 years ago this week), of an intestinal ailment, in Manhattan; Viceroy Lord Willingdon of India, of dysentery, at Simla; bankrupt Theatrical Producer Arthur Hammerstein, of a ruptured bladder, in Manhattan; Cinemactress Constance Bennett, with adhesions after her appendectomy of last year, in Manhattan; famed Scientist Sir David Bruce (discoverer of the cause of Malta fever, namesake of the bacteria group "Brucella"), in London; Queen Marie of Rumania, of a female complaint due to her age (55), at Bucharest...
...Vines & Gledhill and Perry & Hughes were almost beaten in the second round, observers imagined that the shock would startle them into playing their best tennis, anticipated a brilliant international final. The shock had a different effect. In the quarterfinals. Vines & Gledhill lost to Clifford Sutter of New Orleans and Bruce Barnes of Austin, Tex., in a three-hour match, 4-6, 10-8, 10-12, 8-6, 6-3; John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J. and Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex. beat Perry & Hughes 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Rain delayed the play...
...motor customers is Chrysler Corp. He likes fishing and horse-races, is more of a home man than a clubfellow. He lives in Baltimore where the company began, still maintains its home office although it is represented in 191 cities. The directorate over which he presides includes James Bruce, president of Baltimore Trust Co. and brother of David K. Este Bruce, Secretary Mellon's son-in-law; Waddill Catchings; Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes; Banker David R. Forgan of Chicago; Drugman Louis K. Liggett of Boston; Howard LaVerne Wynegar, president of the company. Last week quiet President Wynegar...
...Charles Higham (Britain's Bruce Barton): "Perhaps I am too optimistic about Britain, but I don't despair. France and the United States have most of the gold in the world divided between them. What we have left is our character and our credit. Now our credit is imperiled...