DUMBBELLS AND CARROT STRIPS (405 pp.)—Mary Macfadden & Emile Gauvreau—Holt ($3.95). Mary Williamson was only a Yorkshire millhand until Bernarr (“Body Love”) Macfadden, the “Father of ...

Hard times merely put Bernarr Macfadden on his mettle. In 1931, at the depth of Depression, he opened the first of five Penny Restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Washington, D. C.

Though Bernarr Macfadden lived until 1955, he ran out of steam in the 1940s, when Americans largely came together over the war effort and mainstream medicine became so successful that it was much ...

PROFILE of Bernarr Macfadden, publisher & physical culturist. An article written by John Russell Coryell, who also wrote detective stories under the name of Nick Carter, & published by Macfadden ...

Though Bernarr Macfadden lived until 1955, he ran out of steam in the 1940s, when Americans largely came together over the war effort and mainstream medicine became so successful that it was much ...