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Bodybuilding Pioneer Joe Weider Dead at 93

Fitness icon brought Schwarzenegger to America

(Newser) - Joe Weider, a bodybuilding enthusiast who built a publishing empire and brought Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood, died yesterday of heart failure, the LA Times reports. He was 93. Born in Montreal, Weider pumped weights at a young age to protect himself from neighborhood bullies. He started his own bodybuilding magazine...

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