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...more lakes: the New York Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Harrison E. (for Evans) Salisbury; Look's Editorial Director Daniel D. (for Danforth) Mich; Humorist (Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) Max Shulman; Sig Mickelson, CBS's vice president in charge of news; Reader's Digest Editor (and founder) DeWitt Wallace; and CBS's chief Washington correspondent, North Dakota-born A.(for Arnold) Eric Sevareid, onetime reporter for the Minneapolis Journal and Minneapolis Star. The newsman-named lakes will keep cartographic company with such sky-blue waters as Winnibigoshish (meaning "miserable, wretched, dirty water...
...Renaissance; it tells a whodunit about who would rule England's roost; and it is a success story of a butcher's son who rose to highest honors in his country and his church only to fall in the end. Though Biographer Ferguson (a Reader's Digest editor) takes a cool view of theological matters, the book always conveys the rising sense of crisis in which Canterbury split from Rome. It was Wolsey's difficult role to represent both the universal church and an island king. As Ferguson puts it: "Rome could pay his wages...
...Marian Anderson, a stout and stately 55, took a relaxed look at this week's film digest of her 40,000-mile triumphal sing-swing through Asia earlier this year and said: "It has the look of having been made with love." So it had. The Lady from Philadelphia faithfully recorded the rich, heart-stirring artistry of the Negro woman who began as a Philadelphia choir singer; at the same time it illustrated how sharper than a diplomat's wile can be the sweet song of a woman of great talent and simple dignity. Contralto Anderson acknowledged...
Died. Barclay Acheson, 70, longtime (1942-57) executive director and chairman (since last month) of the 27 Reader's Digest international editions (an estimated 9,000,000 circulation in 13 languages); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Briarcliff Manor...
...byline of the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins, which has decorated Pulitzer Prizewinning stories from Korea and weighty dispatches from world capitals, popped up last August in Reader's Digest and other magazines. Under the headline ONE BILLION UNFILLED CAVITIES MUST BE WRONG! ran a pseudo-news story by "Noted Journalist" Higgins, plugging Crest toothpaste. Washington-based Maggie Higgins, 37 (married to Major General William E. Hall), took her $500 fee and thought nothing more of it until she got a letter from the Standing Committee of Congressional Press Gallery Correspondents, questioning whether she had violated...