Word: digest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months the Spanish edition of Reader's Digest has become the biggest-selling Spanish-language magazine on record (350,000 circulation), and Publisher DeWitt Wallace has taken his place among the big U.S. exporters to Latin America. Last week he announced a new project for winning Latin American friends and losing money. It is a Portuguese edition of Reader's Digest for Brazil. Scheduled for delivery Jan. 10, starter edition will be 100,000 copies...
Like the Spanish edition (Selecciones del Reader's Digest), the Portuguese Selacçàaos will lose money to start with. Two further ideas will increase Reader's Digest's Latin American budget: 1) a talent-scouting trip, now afield, in search of articles from Latin America (not to exceed 40% of magazine's content); 2) sponsoring free U.S. tours for Latin American writers...
Twenty years of stale marriage did harm enough to the mature Dickens; but the wound from which he never recovered was the six months he spent as a child in a ratty London warehouse, pasting labels on bottles. "Dickens' whole career was an attempt to digest these early shocks and hardships, to explain them to himself, to justify himself in relation to them, to give an intelligible and tolerable picture of a world in which such things could occur." Wilson demonstrates that the novels are powerful and bitter social criticism; that the Dickens character gallery contains ever more pitiless...
...invite ill will, engender resentment, and offend the nice sensibilities, for instance, of foreign diplomats who are schooled in politeness and courtesy. ... It was considered smart by some, after World War I, to be rude. Just when manners seemed to be improving, along comes your magazine, grabs Grandma Literary Digest by the seat of her inner chaps, and throws her clear out of the literary corral. Then your writers began spitting through their teeth to show how smart they were and began to splatter us with them there grammer...
...sexy cartoons and articles by big literary names such as Ernest Hemingway-was on the newsstands in December 1937 with its fattest issue ever-including 155 pages of ads. His Coronet, launched a year before (1936), was set to invade the profitable field occupied by Reader's Digest, and he was about to launch a newsmagazine to cut himself in on another field. Esquire, his big moneymaker, had become the darling of the barbershops and just hit a peak circulation of 677,000. In that happy moment Publisher Smart modestly guaranteed Esquire's advertisers...