Word: digest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with our pictures on the front of The Ladies' Home Journal, and articles in Reader's Digest, and our pictures in the local papers-and Mrs. Harry Hopkins doing it-my, my, us poor sore-footed Nurse's Aides find we are morons...
...still admit Protestant missionaries, educators and doctors, despite some wartime difficulties. Yet last month the U.S. Catholic hierarchy declared that these missions are "a disturbing factor in our international relations" and are "offensive to the dignity of our Southern brothers, their culture and their religion." Last fortnight the Catholic Digest made further charges (TIME...
...Research Director Charles Kettering, who collaborated in developing the fever cabinet used in the so-called "one-day cure" for early syphilis. Dr. Kendall is in charge of fever therapy at the hospital. Also present was Author Paul de Kruif, who presented the cure in the Reader's Digest (TIME, Sept. 14) and helped the new hospital get its funds...
Comparative religion, heretofore reserved for grownups, was last week finally dished up for children too. The Tree of Life (edited by Ruth Smith, Viking, $3.50) gives young folks the frequently hard-to-digest riches of 13 theologies, shows how the religious tree from primitive acorns grew and how its living & dead branches intertwine...
Such programs have been found to produce speed and contentment in such diverse establishments as the Lockheed plane plant and Manhattan's National City Bank. In the editorial rooms of the Reader's Digest editors are treated with twelve to 20 minutes of planned harmony every hour...