Word: digest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complete education of a daughter is something no American has ever been willing to leave entirely to the schoolteachers. Culling over their own back issues for wisdom on this and other subjects, the editors of the Reader's Digest last week republished Lines to a Daughter -Any Daughter (in an anthology entitled Fun Fare; Simon & Schuster, $2.50), written four years ago by Manhattanite Agnes Rogers...
...printing plants in Concord, N.H. and Dayton, Ohio, the presses had run off a third of the 11-million-copy run of the January issue of the Reader's Digest last week before they were abruptly stopped. Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace and his staff had decided, after reading the late war news, to replace the lead article on MacArthur's Korean triumph titled "The Right Man in the Right Place." (About 4,000,000 copies had already been distributed.) Collier's, with a closing five weeks in advance of publication, could not do anything about its issue...
When the adless Reader's Digest (U.S. circ. over 8,000,000) started its international editions in 1938, Editor DeWitt Wallace soon hit a snag. At 25?, the world's biggest magazine was too expensive for the mass of readers in most foreign countries. Beginning with the Spanish-language edition in 1940, Wallace cut the price and began carrying advertising in his international editions. Circulation and advertising rose steadily, but so did production costs, and the 24 foreign editions in eleven languages, with a circulation of 6,300,000, continued in the red. Last week, on the tenth...
...City Columnist McClain had bothered to check his sources, he would have discovered that no such story ever appeared in the Mobridge Tribune. It was written in 1939 by the Tribune's Randall Hobart as a satire on country newspapers, first appeared in the Reader's Digest, has since been widely and solemnly reprinted as genuine. Just before Columnist McClain swallowed this old chestnut, :he Milwaukee Journal and Radio & TV Funnyman Arthur Godfrey also cracked heir teeth...
...screen. Working from the Brian Hooker translation, Scripter Carl Foreman has tightened the play's continuity-a good idea in any Cyrano production-without muffling its lyricism or wit. By dramatizing Rostand's offstage action and breaking each scene into bits small enough for the camera to digest, he has given the picture unusual mobility for an adaptation from the stage. Among the additions: a blade-by-blade filming of Cyrano's duel with the cutthroats...