Word: digest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three years of publication, the Democratic Digest has served mostly as a canape tray laden with fancily garnished political tidbits. Adlai Stevenson's egghead followers thought it had the flavor of real caviar. But most ordinary folks considered it just plain fish eggs-and rancid at that. Result: the Digest lost $200,000 in struggling toward a monthly circulation...
...announcing that he planned to stay on at his post (a decision that seemed satisfactory even to his many party enemies, who were quite willing to let him undertake the thankless job of paying off the Democrats' $1,000,000 deficit from the last campaign), said the Digest will no longer be aimed at a "limited intellectual audience." It will be converted from a "political luxury the party cannot afford" to a direct channel of communication between the national commit tee and Democratic precinct workers...
...thus risking the eggheads' ire, Chairman Butler served implicit notice that they, like the Digest, are an expendable political luxury...
Actually, however, these retreats have seldom been the sight of any game more athletic than trying to skim and digest a 400-page book in an hour. Since Moors calls its study room "the bike room" and Holmes terms its "the lounge," one is in-clined to suspect that the Cliffite is indeed sensitive about her reputation as a grind...
...question: How would Congress go? By 8 p.m., TV's battle of the calculating machines was producing near unanimity-ABC's Elecom prognosticated "less than 100 electoral votes" for Stevenson; CBS's Univac calculated 340 for Ike, 87 for Stevenson, then paused to digest a few more returns. The Republicans' own best calculating machine. Party Chairman Leonard Hall, was confident enough to predict before 9 o'clock that Ike was riding home on a landslide. At about the same moment, young John Fell Stevenson, the Democratic candidate's son, left his fa ther...