Leathery, wire-haired Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden ran for governor of Florida and got married for the third time at 79, celebrated his 81st birthday last August by making his first parachute jump. Last week Publisher Macfadden flickered dimly in the publishing sky in which he once flared like a comet.
True Story, Liberty and the New York Evening Graphic (better known as the "porno-Graphic") had slipped from his aging grasp long ago. But for 50 years, Health Cultist Macfadden has remained as devoted to New Physical Culture, his first & last magazine, as he...
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