- Inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
- For 3 consecutive years he achieved 1st Place in the Most Muscular Man competition of the A.A.U Senior National Weightlifting Championships & Mr. America Contest. Those years were: 1942, '43 & '44. Also, in each of these years, he was chosen the runner-up for the full Mr. America Title.
- Was the New York State Checkers Champion in 1940.
- Body builder and weightlifter.
- He once arm-wrestled then President Ronald Reagan during a trip to the White House.
- Publisher of the bodybuilding journal, Muscle Training Illustrated. He still maintains a Website with that name.
- He is a former business partner of Joe and Ben Weider.
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