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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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    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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  • Bernarr is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Bernarr Macfadden (1868–1955), American proponent of physical culture Bernarr Notley (1918–2019)...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Military Academy struggled financially and was bought for $100,000 by Bernarr Macfadden, a millionaire publisher. physical trainer, and nationally known fitness...
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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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    medication, potassium bromide, which dulled the mind. Around this time, Bernarr Macfadden, an American exponent of physical culture, popularised the use of...
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    was built by Joe Elsener. In 1936 it became the MacFadden-Deauville after purchase by Bernarr MacFadden. Blackhurst, Brooke. "MiMo Architecture- Miami's...
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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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    Duncan Ross, Joe Acton, Jack Carkeek, James Doner, James Faulkner and Bernarr MacFadden. During 1887, he wrestled in Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Rio de Janeiro...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Hugh Dierker Produced by Bernarr Macfadden Starring Edna Murphy Gaston Glass George Hackathorne Production company MacFadden True Story Pictures Distributed...
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  • establishment was opened by the Bernarr MacFadden Foundation, begun by publisher Bernarr MacFadden, in September 1930. MacFadden based the concept on a similar...
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    Island Polar Bear Club of Coney Island, New York, founded in 1903 by Bernarr MacFadden. The club organizes an annual polar plunge on New Year's Day as well...
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    Stories, which was launched by Bernarr Macfadden in July 1926, is one of Weird Tales' earliest competitors. Macfadden also published true confession magazines...
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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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