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 ...

“Sponsored by Physical Culture, the first of the family of Macfadden Magazines,” this full-page self-eulogy of Bernarr (“Body Love”) Macfadden appeared in the New York Times & Herald ...

Some of the best Sonoran-style tortillas in the U.S. are being made far from the border, in a college town forty miles outside Kansas City. The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared ...

The wrestling champion Bernarr Macfadden loved raw milk and cold plunges. He hated vaccines and despised white flour, which he called “dead food.” His greatest enemy after white flour was the ...

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 ...

Ms. Grose is a Times Opinion writer and the author of a Times newsletter on culture, social change and the American family. The wrestling champion Bernarr Macfadden loved raw milk and cold plunges.