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...Jansen, Elizabeth Sher Man; F. T. Gibson, Elizabeth Lawrence; Log in Roots, Ellen Freshingham; R. A. MacFadden...
Closing out our portfolio of publishers: health nut Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), who used his first magazine, Physical Culture, as a vehicle for promulgating his views on carrot eating, cold-water bathing and frequent, vigorous sex. (He was for all three.) Largely for his fulminations on the last, his racy tabloid, the New York Evening Graphic, which specialized in covering violence and sex, became known as the "PornoGraphic." His legacy is with us even now: it was Macfadden who invented the "composograph" or composite photo, in which the heads of real people in the news are superimposed on the bodies...
...newcomers included such prominent firms as Goldman Sachs, First Boston, Merrill Lynch and Shearson Lehman Hutton. While Drexel's grip on the market gradually slipped, in 1985 it controlled more than half of the new issues. "Drexel is like a god," Michael Boylan, president of the publishing firm Macfadden Holdings, declared in a magazine article that a Drexel executive proudly framed. "They are awesome. You hate to do business against them...
...Bernarr ("Body Beautiful") Macfadden, still full of beans at 77, hired Manhattan's Carnegie Hall to get a few things off his manly chest. Before a healthy audience of some 2,000, he flailed clerical prudery, and plumped for the healthy life and for good clean sex ("The sexes were never made to be separated"). The white-maned publisher, clad in suit and shoes to match, did push-ups and headstands (calculated to prolong life from ten to 25 years), warned women: "Beauty must be associated with a good digestion...
...unwanted child of the New York Times Co., Us magazine, finally found a foster home last week. The Macfadden Group, publisher of True Confessions, Secrets and Cheri ("The All True Sex News Magazine"), acquired the fortnightly personality magazine after Tunes executives had spent months trying to peddle it-to CBS and the National Enquirer, among others. Macfadden will assume Us's existing subscription liabilities, estimated at about $4 million. It will also pay the Tunes Co. more than $5 million out of the magazine's future profits, if there are any; the Times Co. sank $10 million into...