an
American magazine first published in the early 1900s by
American publisher Bernarr Macfadden (1863-1955) and within the first several years of its publication its
circulation reached 2,000,000. The
magazine featured supposedly true stories about the lives, problems, romances, etc., of everyday people, such as "Because She Jilted Me," "That First
Sin" and "My Double
Life." The tales appearing in the
magazine also became weekly radio
dramatizations.
a
magazine started in 1919 which was devoted to the personal narratives of plain people,
telling of their problems and how they solved them.