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    Bernarr Macfadden (born Bernard Adolphus McFadden, August 16, 1868 – October 12, 1955) was an American proponent of physical culture, a combination of...
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  • century. Physical Culture, Bernarr Macfadden's first magazine though the company Macfadden Publications, was based on Macfadden's interest in bodybuilding...
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    alternative health food advocate and fitness enthusiast. Bragg's mentor was Bernarr Macfadden. He wrote on subjects such as detoxification, dieting, fasting, longevity...
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    000 by Bernarr Macfadden; the Bernarr Macfadden Foundation operated it until 1974. An auditorium and gymnasium were built and named for Macfadden, and Mitchell's...
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    photographic collage popularized by publisher and physical culture advocate Bernarr Macfadden in his New York Evening Graphic in 1924. The Graphic was dubbed "The...
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    run, it was published by Macfadden Publications. True Detective Mysteries was founded in 1924 by publisher Bernarr Macfadden. It initially focused on...
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    McCormick-Patterson, the publisher until 1931, when it was taken over by Bernarr Macfadden until 1941. At one time it was said to be "the second greatest magazine...
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    daily. In 1917, Bates teamed up with "'physical culture' faddist" Bernarr Macfadden on a "New Course of Eye Training" which was heavily advertised in...
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    Coryell began a long relationship with fitness and health guru Bernarr Macfadden and his Macfadden Publications. Coryell's first known connection was his article...
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    to Atlas's course, particularly those marketed by Bernarr Macfadden and Earle E. Liederman. Macfadden, publisher of the magazine Physical Culture, dubbed...
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    it as a separate division. It was overseen by Maximilian Elser Jr. Bernarr Macfadden bought Metropolitan Magazine in January 1923 on the urging of his...
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  • the other tabloids." In 1930, Time, after saying that "Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's feelings are hurt by any suggestion that he or any of his publications...
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    "aesthetic athletics" came mainly from the physical culture advocate, Bernarr Macfadden. She described the sexologist Havelock Ellis and the musicologist...
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    techniques and utensils. Bernarr Macfadden was another major figure of dieting in the 20th century, taking the legacy of Graham. Macfadden relentlessly promoted...
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  • alternative health writers such as Hereward Carrington, Edward H. Dewey, Bernarr Macfadden, Frank McCoy, Edward Earle Purinton, Upton Sinclair and Wallace Wattles...
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    George Julius Drews (author of Unfired Food and Trophotherapy, 1912), Bernarr Macfadden and Herbert Shelton. Drews influenced John and Vera Richter to open...
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  • by Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture Publishing Company. Bennett was a close friend of Bernarr Macfadden and his wife, Mary. He helped Macfadden to...
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    and Kennedy assassinations Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), aviator Bernarr Macfadden (1868–1955), physical culture advocate Calvin J. Spann (1924–2015)...
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    with the Camden and Amboy Rail Road in the 1830s and 1840s. In 1905, Bernarr Macfadden, the proponent of physical culture, came to the part of Monroe near...
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    hydrotherapy and natural cure. One of his regular customers at the time was Bernarr Macfadden, the popularizer of physical fitness and natural medicine. Benedict...
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  • been interpreted as a parody of the publishing enterprises owned by Bernarr Macfadden at the time. Search for Beauty, tcm.com, accessed October 12, 2010...
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    among journalists distorting photographic images for news value was Bernarr Macfadden: in the mid-1920s, his "composograph" process involved reenacting...
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  • include: Andrew McFadden, Australian rugby league football coach Bernarr Macfadden (1868–1955), American proponent of physical culture Bob McFadden (1923‒2000)...
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    published in the Physical Culture magazine. The book is dedicated to Bernarr Macfadden. Sinclair was keenly interested in health and nutrition. He experimented...
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    bouts, suffering defeat on just 5 occasions. A keen follower of Bernarr Macfadden's physical culture, Welsh believed in exercise and healthy living and...
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  • Barnes was inspired by that of Bernarr Macfadden and his Macfadden Publications. Caspary had briefly worked on one of Macfadden's magazines in the 1920s, and...
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  • Publication Published in Liberty Publication type periodical Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, Liberty Publishing Corporation Media type print Publication date...
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    Madison Square Garden in New York City. The competition was promoted by Bernarr Macfadden, the father of physical culture and publisher of original bodybuilding...
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  • advertising manager. The chief backer of Automotive Daily News was Bernarr Macfadden. In 1933, Slocum purchased the other investors' interests, moved the...
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    about whether this process was genuine, manipulation by publisher Bernarr Macfadden, or a Gernsback scheme to begin another company.[citation needed]...
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