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...Readers Digest of Canada has agreed to send a Nieman Fellow from the Dominion for the next five years...
Died. Stanley Hoflund High, 65, a senior editor of the Reader's Digest and former editor of the Christian Herald, who switched from Hoover to become a New Deal brain-truster, founded the Good Neighbor League in 1936, was disowned by F.D.R. a year later for writing a magazine article revealing policy differences within the White House, and thereafter enlisted his skill as a publicist in the campaigns of Republican Candidates Willkie, Dewey and Eisenhower; of pulmonary complications following heart trouble; in New York City...
Ostensibly the excuse for the Readers Digest, and for Time the condensed newspaper, was that people didn't have the time to read a newspaper every day with care. If this claim wasn't nonsense when the digests were started, it is surely nonsense now. The American people have more spare time (and spare money) on their hands than ever before; they simply don't choose to use the time and the money to become informed about public affairs. Neither Time nor the New York Times' News of the Week in Review is a substitute for the daily reading...
Died. Henry Morton Robinson, 62, onetime Reader's Digest editor and best-selling novelist, whose prolix portraits included purveyors of religion (The Cardinal) as well as purveyors of bourbon (Water of Life), and who confessed himself "delighted" with being called slick; of complications from burns suffered last month in a bathtub; in New York City. A protean penman, Robinson's nonfiction ranged from Private Virtue, Public Good, an anti-Rooseveltian treatise later reprinted in 1,000,000 copies after it appeared as a Digest article in 1938, to A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, an exercise in academic...
...Canada with an editorial product already paid for by their U.S. circulation, enjoy an unfair edge in the race for Canadian readers and revenues. The plaint is a familiar one. In 1957 a Liberal government zeroed in on Canadian editions of U.S. magazines (principally TIME and Reader's Digest), imposed a 20% tax on their Canadian advertising revenues. Diefenbakers Tories denounced the tax as discriminatory and as an interference with freedom of the press. Since the tax also failed to divert advertising to Canadian publications, the Tories repealed it in 1958 after they came to power...