Word: digest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane too advanced for the shoddily prepped reader. But this is only occasional. Most of the book is well within any literati's grasp. In fact by the time the 349th page is finished, the Autobiography of William Carlos Williams constitutes a useful and very easy to digest primer in one school of modern American literature...
...colors at once. When receiving the RCA color system, the tube will have to work differently, for RCA color television is made up of colored dots that arrive on the screen simultaneously. But the tube's sponsor says that only simple auxiliary apparatus is needed to make it digest both systems...
When Monsignor Edward Westenberger spotted an article called "Margaret Sanger: Mother of Planned Parenthood" in the July Reader's Digest (circ. 15 million), he saw his duty and did it. As director of parochial schools of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., Westenberger banned the Digest from the 125 schools under his supervision. The offending article, said he, was "unpatriotic, unChristian, and vicious propaganda...
Last week the leftish Nation, which has seldom found itself on the same side of the fence as the conservative Digest, dropped a crocodile tear as it extended its "professional sympathy, somewhat ruefully." Said the Nation: "[Monsignor Westenberger's] epithets . . . must have caused a shudder in Pleasantville...
Little Adults. Later, she added regular articles on marriage problems and housing ("for they all affect children, too"), children's books (which are pretested on young readers), movies and records. Editor Littledale also keeps a supervisory finger on Parents' byproduct publications: Children's Digest, 21 (for young men), Compact (for girls), Your New Baby and Baby Care Manual (for new mothers...