Word: macfadden
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Fighting Britches") Cone; derailed at the last minute was Liberty Publisher Bernarr Macfadden by Townsendite Jerry Carter. Mr. Carter finished second to silent Incumbent Charles Oscar Andrews...
...grammatical howler): "When elected, this certificate will entitle the holder to have luncheon or dinner as my guest at the Mansion." For Senator on the Democratic ticket: six, including Incumbent Charles O. Andrews, Governor Fred Preston Cone, Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, author of Me-Gangster, and Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story Magazine, Physical Culture, True Love and Romance. Declared Mr. Macfadden: "Teeming vitality is of course important, but a Government that robs the citizens of their liberties can still take the joy out of life." How to put joy back: elect dynamic Bernarr Macfadden...
...Sullivan writes a Hollywood gossip column for the New York Daily News, syndicates it to some 50 other papers. Never celebrated as a reporter, he got his start as a sports columnist for Macfadden's late Manhattan tabloid Graphic. One day last fortnight Ed Sullivan set out across continent with a troupe of actors (including Horror Man Bela Lugosi) to do a vaudeville turn. In St. Louis he dropped off between trains, decided to pay a goodwill call on his St. Louis paper...
...takes more than a gleam in a publisher's eye to create a new Metropolitan newspaper. Since 1895 only three big dailies have been born in Manhattan. All three were tabloid children of rich men, who could afford to spend millions nursing them to maturity. One (Bernarr Macfadden's Evening Graphic) died a-weaning. Two survive: Joseph Medill Patterson's Daily News, William Randolph Hearst's Daily Mirror...