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This chronology is indicative only.
Context
is provided by the broader communications and media timeline
on this site.
1892 Macfadden founds Physical Development in
UK
1895 sells Physical Development to Hopton Hadley,
who relaunches it as Health & Strength
1899 launches Physical Culture in US
1900 launches Women's Physical Development in
US
1903 Women's Physical Development becomes Beauty
& Health: Women's Physical Development
1905 launches Physical Culture City
1905 receives suspended sentence after action by Anthony
Comstock over 'lewd' exhibition
1906 launches Strengtho breakfast cereal
1907 opens sanatorium at Battle Creek, Michigan
1907 indicted for violating federal obscenity law with
articles in Physical Culture Magazine
1909 Bernarr MacFadden v United States decision by US
Supreme Court
1909 closes Battle Creek sanatorium
1909 opens International Healthatorium in Chicago
1919 launches True Story
1923 launches True Romances
1924 launches True Detective Mystery Magazine
1924 launches New York Evening Graphic
1924
launches Muscle Builder Magazine
1925 launches Philadelphia Daily News with Lee
Ellmaker
1929 opens Physical Culture Hotel at Dansville, New York
1929 launches Detroit Daily News
1929 launches New York Investment News
1931 acquires Liberty magazine (est 1924)
1931 sells Detroit Daily News to Patterson
& McCormick as part payment for Liberty
1932 sells New Haven Times to Journal-Courier
for US$10,000
1932 sells Lansing Capital News and Greenville
News
1932 closes New York Evening Graphic
1932 sells Philadelphia Daily News to Lee Ellmaker
1933 launches Babies, Babies, Babies
1935 acquires Deauville Hotel at Miami Beach
1941 relinquishes stake in McFadden Enterprises
1950 Liberty magazine closes
1952 Generoso Pope Jr acquires New York Enquirer,
founds American Media Inc (AMI)
1954 Ellmaker sells Philadelphia Daily News to
Matthew McCloskey
1957 McCloskey sells Daily News Annenberg
1984 Sanford Schwarz sells Sterling's Magazines
1988 AMI auctioned to MacFadden and Boston Ventures joint
venture on death of Generoso Pope
1999 David Pecker and Evercore Partners acquire AMI for
US$850m
1999 MacFadden trade publications bought by VNU
2004 Sterling/Macfadden acquired by Dorchester Media
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