The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The proverb is of French origin and was used by the French novelist Alphonse Karr (1808-90)... and ain't it the truth.
Here is the cover of Physical Culture Magazine, from 1937.
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King Edward is gone, but substitute any other celebrity, and that, along with all the rest of the story titles, are eerily familiar today.