Word: digest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although there are many exceptions, permission to reprint TIME editorial copy is frequently given to newspapers, trade papers and textbook publishers, to unsponsored radio programs, non-profit charitable organizations, to digest magazines, publishers of books and anthologies, etc. In a recent month reprint permission was granted to such varied organizations and individuals as a physician who wanted to quote from three TIME Medicine stories in a college textbook he was revising; to a newspaper chain, which wanted to run Billion-Dollar Hangover (TIME, April 5) on its editorial pages; to a University of Kansas sociology professor who wanted...
From the grave of the Literary Digest, whose back was broken by its 1936 straw vote,* came a sepulchral horselaugh last week. "Nothing malicious, mind you," said ex-Digest Editor Wilfred J. Funk, now a Manhattan book publisher, "but I get a very good chuckle out of this...
...George Gallup, Elmo Roper, Archibald Crossley and all the other pollsters who had been dead wrong on the election could not see the joke. They had reason to wonder last week whether their great fiasco would not put them, like the Digest, out of business...
...public-opinion pollsters, said President Truman on Election Day, "are going to be red-faced tomorrow." He was right. Not since the Literary Digest fiasco of 1936 had opinion-samplers come such a cropper...
...When the digestive system begins to digest itself, the result is ulcers. Doctors have tried everything from soup substitutes to surgery, but have found no sure prevention or cure. Famed Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, vice president of the University of Illinois, has been experimenting for a dozen years or so with a hormone called enterogastrone, found in normal small intestines of men and animals. Finding that the hormone cured ulcers in animals, he began using it five years ago on human beings...