Iron Game History Volume 4

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Issue #1

Published July 1995

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• Siegmund (Klein) Rejoins the Professor, Terry Todd.
• Hippolyte Triat (from: Edmond Desbonnet’s Les Rois de la Force [The Kings of Strength]), translated by David Chapman.
• European Corner – William Pagel: Circus Strongman, David Webster.
• Oasis in Manhattan – Excerpts from an Account of the “Golden Years” of Bodybuilding – Part One, Tom Minichiello.
• The Roark Report – Measuring the Arm of Manfred Hoeberl, Joe Roark.
• The Iron Grapevine.

Issue #2

Published October 1995

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• Honoring Al Thomas, Jan Todd.
• Gama the World Champion: Wrestling and Physical Culture in Colonial India, Joseph Alter.
• Jack Walsh – World’s Strongest Man?, Jim Murray.
• How Triat’s Memory was Saved from Oblivion (from: Edmond Desbonnet’s Pour Devenir Fort et le Rester [How to Get Strong and Stay So]), translated by David Chapman.
• Some Thought on Spirit: Its Source and “Uses” in the Best of Games, Al Thomas.
• Paul Anderson’s Moscow Triumph, Arkady Vorobyov.
• The Heidenstam Dinner, Ken Rosa.
• The Iron Grapevine.

Issue #3

Published April 1996

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• Relocation Blues (Todd-McLean Collection), Terry Todd.
• From Philadelphia to York: George Jowett, Mark Berry, Bob Hoffman, and the Rebirth of American Weightlifting, 1927-1936, John Fair.
• The Strange Saga of Galen Gough (excerpted from:Galen Gough: The World’s Miracle Strong Man), Greg Travis.
• The Iron Grapevine.

Issue #4

Published September 1996

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• A Gala Evening: The 1996 Heidenstam Dinner, Ken Rosa.
• The 97-Pound Weakling… Who Became “The World’s Most Perfectly Developed Man” (Charles Atlas), Sam Danna.
• Fugitive Books (Reviews), David Chapman:
  • Bernd Wedemeyer, Starke Männer Starke Frauen: Eine Kulturgesdhichte des Bodybuildings [StrongMen, Strong Women: A Cultural History of Bodybuilding].
  • Gilbert Andrieu, L’homme et la force: Des marchands de la force au culte de la forme (XIXe et XXe siëcles)[Man and Strength: From the Merchants of Strength to the Cult of the Body (19th and 20th centuries)].
  • Kenneth Dutton, The Perfectible Body: The Western Ideal of Physical Development.
• Oasis in Manhattan: Excerpts from an Account of the “Golden Years” of Bodybuilding – Part Two, Tom Minichiello.
• The Superior Physique, Grover Porter.
• Hippolyte Triat (from: Edmond Desbonnet’sLes Rois de la Force[The Kings of Strength]) translated by David Chapman.
• Physical Exercise and Training in Ancient Jewish Lore, Samuel Kotteck.
• The Iron Grapevine.

Issue #5 & #6

Published August 1997

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• Editorial – An Explanation, Terry Todd.
• Weightlifting’s Non-Lifting Patron Saint (Dr. Peter V. Karpovich), Jim Murray.
• The All-Inclusive Body (Excerpted from The Perfectible Body: The Western Ideal of Physical Development), Kenneth Dutton.
• Too Many Cookes? David Webster.
• Apollon (from: Edmond Desbonnet’s Les Rois de la Force [The Kings of Strength]), translated by David Chapman.
• Apollon, The Emperor of Athletes, Edmond Desbonnet.
• The Iron Grapevine.