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...accompli, Lyndon did the sporting thing: at a televised People-to-People luncheon, he suggested that it would be nice if someone helped Bashir get to the U.S. People-to-People Program, an independent group of international-minded Americans, promptly volunteered. So did the Reader's Digest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Come See Me | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...reluctantly into his first pair of shoes. His family and neighbors were worried: "Will they let him come back to Pakistan?" "Will he bring back a mem-sahib [white wife]?" What was worse, the bewildered Bashir heard nothing from anyone in the U.S. about his trip. The reasons: the Digest backed out of sponsoring him; People-to-People was having second thoughts; Johnson's formal invitation unaccountably bogged down in the U.S. embassy in Karachi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Come See Me | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...spirit of anti-Americanism or of Canadian ultranationalism," and has no designs against freedom of the press. But it proposes, by rejuggling advertising rates and other punitive devices, to end the great popularity in Canada of two U.S. magazines in particular-TIME and the Reader's Digest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jun. 23, 1961 | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...confesses that her "besetting sin is sloth. I'm a natural-born slob. I once mislaid a copy of the Reader's Digest in my purse." ("I," pronounces Walter Kerr with critical accuracy, "am a hell of a lot neater than she is.") She buys enough cosmetics to underwrite a television program, spends hours and fortunes at the hairdresser, but cares little for clothes, buying cut-rate bargains. She has been wearing the same grey-fur-collared cloth coat to Broadway openings for years, frequently with a button missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BROADWAY | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...alleged unpatriotism (a cover depicting the Father of Our Country crossing the Delaware), the 1925 parody of Literary Digest was removed from the newsstands and banned by the Post Office. It eventually sold under the counter for eight dollars a copy...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: 'Lampoon' May Publish 'Mademoiselle' | 3/14/1961 | See Source »

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