Word: digest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprising victories for his program both in the House and in the Senate (see THE CONGRESS). The Democratic high command built up steam for a big meeting at Sioux Falls. S.Dak., late this month, where Adlai Stevenson and other top Democrats will commiserate with the farmers. The Democratic Digest, which sets the party line, slapped Benson's picture on the cover of its September issue, along with the dubious headline: FARMERS GET THE BUSINESS...
That seems to be the philosophy behind RCA Victor's new Listener's Digest (10 EPs), which presents the themes of great compositions, throws away most of the rest. Why has Victor, which has made some of the most devoutly accurate recordings on the market, gone in for vandalizing great music? By serving up serious music in easily digestible chunks, Victor hopes to attract a whole new audience to classical fare. Whether friends can be won for classical music this way is dubious; the experiment is comparable to editing the tougher passages out of Shakespeare or redrawing...
...word transcript of the Army-McCarthy squabble to a terse report was more or less like asking a mighty gale to become a zephyr. Last week Acting Committee Chairman Karl Mundt complained that Jenkins' "bulky" summary would take two days just to read, let alone digest. Down in Knoxville, a trifle hurt by his caucus-room pal's reflection on his distilling prowess, Jenkins replied testily: "It was reduced from a 7,424-page document down to 447 pages... accompanied by a brief that contained less than 450 pages...
...also leaked to the press), wasted no time taking over the world's second biggest railroad. Less than an hour after the official count was announced, Young and Mrs. Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, a member of his directors' slate and co-owner of the Reader's Digest, marched out of his offices in Manhattan's Chrysler Building and walked the three blocks to the Park Avenue offices of the Central. There his group of directors, who had been asked to stand by were gathered in the Central's board room...
...named the Daily News-Digest and published in Meriden, Conn., Texarkana, Ark., Huntington, W.Va., Allentown, Pa. and Monroe...