Word: digest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent addition to TIME'S team of Business writers was for five years news editor of Business Week, played a major part in developing its original editorial plan-and has contributed regularly to the Saturday Evening Post and the Reader's Digest for many years. . . . TIME'S Science and Medicine departments now draw on the wide knowledge and experience of a journalist who for years was head of the chemistry and physics departments at one of the best known State universities in the country-who was Director of Science and Education at the World's Fair...
Last month Catholic Digest printed an article by Episcopalian John Erskine in which he termed Protestant missions south of the Rio Grande "the work of pure destruction," urged their abandonment. Catholic Digest in turn suggested that such missionary activity "violates our Good Neighbor policy" and that the U.S. "should cease to make divisions in South America." Last week the Christian Century, leading Protestant weekly, returned the salvo: "There are enough religiously indifferent people in South America to give Protestant missionaries an ample field for a century. What if they do proselyte? So does the Roman Catholic Church...
This week Catholic Digest was back in the battle with another article by a Protestant, the New York Herald Tribune's veteran Correspondent John W. White. Said Newsman White, who likes to keep his categories separate: "My interest in the problem is purely patriotic and political, not religious. If we are sincere in our desire to make the Western Hemisphere safe for democracy, we must have the real friendship of our South American neighbors. The first and most important step in winning that friendship would be to call home our missionaries...
...sprawling complexity of Government orders and regulations. OPA lawyer language makes decisions difficult, clogs the steady flow of goods in a business which depends on turnover. Trade associations have done much to clarify and expedite the intentions of these orders, and Washington promises a "Retailer's Digest" which will put them into storekeeper's English so that men with crops to catch and seasonal buying to plan will know which way to jump...
Commercials of the stomach-turning variety got a good going-over last week from a listener with a sensitive stomach and a big audience. In Reader's Digest, Robert Littell protested against broadcast ads which made "some stranger's gizzards come bounding right into the room." He called such commercials "plug-uglies" and announced the formation of the outraged order of Plug Shrinkers...