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...pick up the tab.) The newspapers run the story; gifts start arriving in the mail. In the old days, it was a case of Wheaties or a carton of Life Savers. Nowadays there are certificates, medals, highball glasses, ashtrays, barometers. The earth-shaking event is duly recorded by Golf Digest, which gives away clothes and golfing trips to the winners of its annual Hole-in-One Sweepstakes. Last summer Harrah's Club at Lake Tahoe, Nev., ran its own hole-in-one contest, and the winner had his choice of three prizes: a Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari...
Millions of Frenchmen are growing old with him--"Look," they say, "he seems tired tonight," or conversely, "Charlie's in good form." Entirely unlike the Big Brother of George Orwell's 1984 he resembles an elderly uncle, "someone you would like for your grandfather," as the Readers Digest once...
...will be on leave this Spring, said that he might go to London to receive the medal, which is usually awarded for work in theoretical astrophysics. He suggested that the Royal Society had honored him for work that he has gone beyond because "these things take time to digest...
Reader's Digest (1,100 ad pages): $57,918,449-down...
Neither Lewis nor anyone else at the Digest really expects the Wallaces to let their concern for the magazine or their control of the product diminish markedly. But the baby does continue to grow, and the parents are getting older. Help was needed at the top, and Digest staffers are unanimous in their relief that the foster parent who was chosen comes not from the business side but from the editorial hierarchy...