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...free-lancers write more than half the articles that appear in the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Cottier's, McCall's, This Week and scores of others...
...years the vision of good pay, independence, no office hours, etc., has attracted thousands of writers and would-be writers to freelancing. Last week, in one day, Satevepost alone received close to 300 manuscripts "over the transom," i.e., unsolicited. Self-help magazines-Writer's Digest, Author and Journalist, etc.-bolster the dream with enticing ads: "No More Rejection Slips," or "Enjoy Fame and Fortune as a Writer." Reality v. Dream. Actually, the reality is much less enticing than the dream. Of the thousands who have tried free-lancing magazine articles, only about 70 or 80 in the U.S. earn...
...large a newsmeal to digest in one sitting. The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune printed the entire conference text-prodigious publishing feats, and a nine-hour task for even a swift reader. In an editorial, Denver's Rocky Mountain News echoed the feelings and frustrations of many an editor: "It is a report that is going to require close reading, rereading, and then all the clarification that can be summoned. In the short time since its release, it would be humanly impassible to digest its full implications. We can only put down an impression...
...study, digest and interpret is the job of a weekly newsmagazine, one of the services that TIME must give its readers. This week TIME'S editors pre sent a special six-page section on the new Yalta material, including three other related stories...
...Reader's Digest (Mon. 8 p.m., ABC-TV) is a good series or a dismal one, depending on which of its first two shows are considered. The opener, called The Last of the Old-Time Shooting Sheriffs, was a witty debunking of the classic western with its quick-drawing, deadshot badmen and goodmen. The veteran sheriff of the title, played with creaking excellence by Russ Simpson, was a gun slinger who preferred a donkey to a spirited stallion, avoided trouble when he could, and in a gun battle, always got his man by holding onto his revolver with both...