Recently Dead

Richard DuBois, a Mr America and Mr USA who in the '50s and '60s was a popular AMG model for physique magazines, died Wednesday of undetermined causes at a health center in Santa Monica. He was 74. When DuBois won the title of Mr USA in 1957 at the Shrine Auditorium, Muscle Power magazine swooned over his "good biceps" and "well-proportioned figure." As Richard Sabre, he appeared in the Debbie Reynolds movie, Athena, and as DuBois toured with Mae West as an Adonis in her stage act (and it's said she toured his body). Later, the muscleman turned to Jesus, and for the last 19 years he served as pastor at Gospel Lighthouse in West Los Angeles. (Source)

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