Word: digestable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor Kravchenko suddenly quit his job with the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington, went into hiding, and began work on the most sensational of all recent books about the Soviet Union. In eight weeks it climbed to fifth on the non-fiction best-seller list. Reader's Digest condensed it; the Hearst papers have run it as a daily serial...
...pocket-sized field was more crowded than ever, with digests and pocket books fighting for space on the stands. DeWitt Wallace's money-minting Reader's Digest, which climbed to a guesstimated 8,000,000 U.S. circulation, came out of the war in the pink of health. It could easily afford a drop in the G.I. trade. But many an imitator could not; they worried over heavy returns...
...David (Esquire) Smart's smart and colorful Coronet. By dropping its cuts of Etruscan vases in favor of homey pictures of kids & pets, it had shot up (said Smart) to 4,000,000 from a puny prewar 120,000. Recently Coronet got into a "saturation race" with the Digest. Both had been selling out regularly. Now armed with more paper, they dumped thousands of extra copies on the market to see what it could stand. Returns jumped heavily, but both hit their biggest circulations in history for that time of year...
...that glitters is not gold, unfortunately, and as a pundit Hugues has been known to give himself over to such dogmatizing that myriad grains of salt are required for most of us to digest his writings. Famed Concert Meister Eddie Condon was once so unkind as to remark to the effect that, "We aren't giving him lessons on how to squash grapes; where does he get off trying to tell us how to play hot music...
...Authors. One co-author of the report was a newsman. Llewellyn White, 46, had worked for the Paris Herald, the Literary Digest, Newsweek and the Chicago Sun. Fortnight ago he went to London to join UNESCO's staff. The other, Dr. Robert D. Leigh,. 55, was a progressive-education specialist, founding president of Bennington College, director of FCC's foreign broadcast intelligence service for two wartime years. Their major proposals...