Like tens of thousands of young men and boys before him, Tom Manfre first caught sight of Charles Atlas in the back pages of the comic books he read so voraciously. With a sculpted chest, leopard ...

When Nintendo introduced the Wii Fit, most of its media coverage could be reduced to a loud, desperate cry for help: “Is this how we’ll finally stop being so fat all the time?” When Ellen DeGeneres ...

Still, Atlas was restless, and ambitious, and when he saw an ad for a "World's Most Beautiful Man" photo contest, he sent in his picture. The contest was sponsored by Physical Culture magazine, the ...