“My mother was once asked if she was proud of me,” Hefner said, “She said she was proud, yes — but she would have been just as happy if I’d been a missionary.” Everyone laughed, what did Hefner tell her? “Mom,” he said. “I was.” I do not know if the above quote is authentic or not, but it certainly describes the Hugh Hefner chart to a good degree. I was inspired by a documentary that detailed the life of the publisher of the worldwide recognized and read men’s lifestyle and entertainment magazine. In 1953 Hef founded the magazine …
The Great Competition – the birth of the Mr. Americas, Universes and Olympias – free content
A mid-September evening in 1901 an event attracted more than 15.000 spectators to the sold-out Royal Albert Hall in London – it was an event that was organized by Eugen Sandow, Russian born Friedrich Mueller, and is recognized as the first bodybuilding competition. The prize to win for the best balanced and most defined male body was set with 1.000 guineas, around $6000 today. Mr. Sandow, who is mainly referred to as the father of modern bodybuilding, chose no other than the Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be the judge over the masculinity on display. The event is in a way considered the mother of all bodybuilding contests like Mr. Olympia, Mr. Galaxy or Mr. Universe, that followed years later and it can be seen as the blueprint of all later …