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...when TIME was founded, the most successful U.S. news weekly was the Literary Digest its circulation, at that time 1,172,229. Said the prospectus...
TIME is not like the Literary Digest and is in no way modeled after it. The Literary Digest treats at great length with a few subjects selected more or less arbitrarily from week to week. TIME gives all the week's news in a brief, organized manner. The Digest makes its statements through its time-honored formula of editorial excerpts. TIME simply states. The Digest, in giving both sides of a question, gives little or no hint as to which side it considers to be right. TIME gives both sides, but clearly indicates which side it believes to have...
...trouble is, most termites are blind and soft-bodied, shun light, and always conceal themselves in the earth, wood, or any other of the more than 150 different objects (ranging from toy blocks to Egyptian mummies) in which they have been discovered. Termites are fond of wood because their digestive tracts harbor a specific kind of protozoa which enables them to digest cellulose...
...master's degree in English from Radcliffe College in 1938. Shortly after, she married Photographer Russell Ogg and they settled down to live in a Manhattan slum on his $15-a-week salary. Norma quickly turned the hardship into $1,100 from the Reader's Digest for a sprightly piece on We Live in the Slums. She joined the Trib as a feature writer in 1944. But not till two years ago did she get her first chance on a breaking news story when the Trib sent her to Havana to cover the Satira yacht-murder of Playboy...
This joke, which was originally made in the French Chamber of Deputies decades ago and which eventually found its way into the anecdote section of the "Readers Digest," is typical of those in the movie. Almost all of the laughs arrive by way of deep left field and are put across with the heavy hand of amateur gag men. This is unfortunate because four of the participants are capable of real humor. Besides the traditional Hepburn-Tracy team, the movie present Judy Holliday of "Born Yesterday" fame and Tom Ewell, who played Ensign Pulver in "Mr. Roberts...