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Next to Bernarr Macfadden (who "retired" from Macfadden Publications last year) the best-known Macfadden name is Charles Fulton Oursler, high-priced editor of Liberty. Last week Editor Oursler too was out. Liberty's new editor is 58-year-old Sheppard Butler, who quit the same job when Macfadden bought Liberty from Cousins Joe Patterson and Bertie McCormick in 1931. Editor Oursler, busy with a novel and a play, kept mum about the reasons for his departure and his 10,000 shares of Macfadden stock (market price: $1.25 per share...
...TRIAL OF VINCENT DOON-Will Oursler-Simon & Schuster...
...Fulton Oursler was founding the tabloid New York Graphic for Bernarr Macfadden. Through a vaudeville friend named Norman Frescott, Winchell met Oursler, whose poetry Winchell had been cheerfully rejecting from the Vaudeville News. Oursler said he thought the rejections showed good editorial judgment, hired Winchell for $100 a week to be the Graphic's theatre critic and conduct a column first called "Broadway Hearsay," later "Your Broadway and Mine." The first item was some verse by "W. W." entitled A Newspaper Poet's Love...
Said Mrs. Macfadden's attorney, Gustave B. Garfield: "We intend swearing out criminal warrants against Mr. Oursler and Miss Lambert. Producing a document in writing purporting to come from another person for the purpose of damaging his or her reputation is a felony under New York penal...
...Oursler said nothing. Announced his secretary: "Mr. Oursler has gone on a five weeks' vacation to China...