Word: digest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nebraska's plodding Republican Senator Hugh Butler traveled 20.000 miles through Latin America on his own purse last summer, getting madder at the New Deal's Good Neighborliness at every mile. Last week he made two reports to the U.S., one in Reader's Digest ("Our Deep Dark Secrets in Latin America"), the other, a 176-page message to the Senate...
Local talent at the V-12 Smoker will feature a pair of Judo-boxers along Reader's Digest lines, Dixielanders from the Unit, and Jim Doering as master of ceremonies. Beer, by the case, all on the house, is also promised. But it's only for V-12; Naval R.O.T.C. men are excluded...
...John K. Cartwright, a Catholic priest, contended that Esquire has a tendency to encourage low ideas of women. When Attorney Bromley brought out the fact that the Catholic Digest has carried reprints from Esquire and that Father Flanagan, of Boys' Town fame, has contributed articles to Esquire, Witness Cartwright countered: "Bad judgment...
Rabbi Metz called these gags objectionable. Attorney Bromley revealed they had all been culled from Reader's Digest...
...Duke is a tribute. The 29th book of Richard Aldington, 51, and his best, it is to the vast library of material on Wellington what Reader's Digest is to the accumulation of writing in U.S. magazines - an expert job of condensation and synthesis, inspired when its source materials are inspired, slowgoing when the mass of detail is incorporated at the expense of color and warmth. The Duke is also salted with the Tory aphorisms of a simple man who did not know that what he said was wisdom...