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...prisons get 50,000 copies a month free. It goes to more than 100 countries and outsells all other monthly magazines in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Uruguay, Venezuela-and, of course, the U.S. Last week the Reader's Digest-circ. 22.8 million-proudly observed its 40th birthday with a 300-page anniversary issue...
...February Digest of 1962 reproduced the cover of its first issue and reprised its first reprinted article, "How to Keep Young Mentally," which encouraged charter subscribers to "Observe! Remember! Compare!" Another feature of this first issue, also reproduced, was a varied collection of homilies, designed to plump out a page and satisfy the public appetite for bite-size sermons. Examples...
...Reader's Digest has no small statistics. Merely to print each U.S. edition (circ. 13.5 million) takes a full month. The Digest sells more Christmas gift subscriptions-2,000,000, including renewals-than most magazines have readers. Each year it fields some 1,200,000 unsolicited contributions from readers, pays for some of those accepted at the uncommon rate of $1 a word...
...digestive systems of modern animals, Firsoff explains, depend on hydrolysis, a process in which proteins, sugars and other compounds are broken down in combination with water. Creatures that have ammonia instead of water in their tissues, would digest food by ammonolysis, i.e., by combining it with ammonia. Instead of oxydizing food to liberate energy as earth's animals do, Jovian animals would combine it with nitrogen, and the final product would be cyanogen (CN)2, a gas that is violently poisonous to life on earth. "Jovian animals," says Astronomer Firsoff, "could breathe nitrogen and drink liquid ammonia. Whether they...
...this might have been reported, at interminable length, under separate bylines from different capitals. Instead, it became the late-night struggle of Writer Demarest to assemble, digest and organize all this material, to find a writer's way to tell the story, cutting from one character to another, and in collaboration with Editor Grunwald to decide on the story's pace, tone and attitude. This is by no means a full accounting of all who had a hand in this week's cover, but may help explain why bylines rarely appear in TIME...