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Marc Valdez Weblog (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
One of the things I inherited when my father passed away was a yellowing, incomplete set of lessons in Charles Atlas' "System of Health, Strength, and Physique Building". The date on these lessons is unclear - I'm guessing maybe 1940, when my Dad was a teenager. The lessons are typewritten - a lot of work went into producing them (although not as much work as for the lessons...
HowStuffWorks: Daily Stuff Feed (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
How does a 97-pound weakling become the World's Most Perfectly Developed Man, as Charles Atlas did? Through the sport known as bodybuilding. Here are 10 of the greatest, most well-known bodybuilders to grace the stage.
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... president Ezra Pound (1885-1972): modern imagist poet who was arrested in the US for treason Charles Atlas (1893-1972): Italian-born bodybuilder who ran a mail order course for "97-pound weaklings" Louis Malle (1932-1995): New Wave film director, My Dinner With André ; broadcast news pioneer Fred Friendly (1915-1998) shared this birth date Grace Slick (70): rock singer,...
Pete's 'Today In History' Quiz (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
In Somalia a 112-year old man has married a 17-year old girl! I offer no other comment other than to say, what a funny old world it is!! Your Friday questions are: - Italian Giuseppe Farina was born today in 1906 and became the first winner of which World Championship in 1950? In which city is the Bosporus Bridge (below) that was completed today in 1973? In which country was bodybuilder Charles...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
My first introduction to the importance of strength was through ads in the back of old comic books. Charles Atlas, the bully kicking sand in your face, and the need to lift big hunks of iron would save your life. Why, lift enough iron and roles would be reversed, you suddenly could do the bully to the bad guy, win the girl, and life would be grand.
Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
... Hunks explores "The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture", including such stars as Charles Atlas, Johnny Weissmuller and ... Anthony Perkins ?! Check out the (slightly NSFW ) slideshow at Out.com. The Latest on TV : - "Toon" in to Cartoon Network this Friday for the special musical episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold guest-starring Neil Patrick Harris ....
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
... add, is TOTALLY AWESOME with the faux-vintage pre-distressed acid-washed cover and ads inside for Charles Atlas and mail-away baby salmonella factories turtles, and also gets you stories by Ken Scholes, Ken MacLeod, Gene Wolf, Peter Watts--oh, screw it, we're all awesome. Ahem. *g*) --but I am here to tell you that I have spent the last 24 hours or so confabbing with arcaedia and...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Remember those ads from comic books in the '60's where some poor shmendrick on the beach gets sand kicked in his face and then Charles Atlas comes and turns him into a bodybuilder? President Obama is looking more and more like the shmendrick, but Charles Atlas is nowhere to be found.On Tuesday night, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov told US Secretary of State Hillary...
Madam Miaow says ... (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
... to become the world’s Number One superpower. Talk about going from a 10 stone weakling to Charles Atlas. See what a good diet can do for you? But watch out you don’t go down the same road that they did and DON’T forget your socialist beginnings. The creation of 6,000 billionaires in a decade — mostly the children of the state bureaucrats who once ran the public...
When Grace Happens (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Little boys not yet four Will insist they have your attention Strike a pose then with a single flex Rip a Charles Atlas bicep To impress grandma. Or new kids next door Before work is taught parent to child It is learned muscles are for show Muscles nurtured with bench presses Stretches, protein shakes And sophisticated calisthenics Executed in air conditioned comfort Can't match The...
