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...added that the FBI data--supposedly confidential--had originally been given by a member of Congress to a Reader's Digest staff writer "who evidently sold it to the Post and papers in other cities...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Edelman Gains Senate's OK, Attacks Local Press | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

Farsighted newsreelers think that one hope for their survival in theaters lies along a trail blazed by Paramount, toward an interpretive digest of the news in a documentary style popularized by the MARCH OF TIME. In the long run, they hope to compete in spot news through big-screen theater television. Theater TV may also become a major movie sideline. Last week 20th Century-Fox was reported nurturing a plan to set up big TV screens in 15 or 20 of its West Coast theaters by year's end. Through closed circuits, Fox would feed topnotch "live" shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: First Casualty | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Plain Yorkshiremen found it pretty hard to digest, but few gallerygoers found the show impossible. A bespectacled schoolgirl named Moreen Beedle was one of the few. "My dad said I should come along and look at it," she explained, "because he was at school with Henry Moore. But I don't know, looks a proper mess to me." Ronald Skipsey, a tweedy old insurance man, stayed on the fence: "They say genius is akin to madness, don't they?" But it was a redfaced Wakefield cab driver, Tom Pickering, who came closest to the Yorkshire concensus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yorkshire Pudding | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...illustration, the Met had wheeled in sculpture, painting and prints from most of its vast departments, had even borrowed a few pieces from the advance-guard Museum of Modern Art. As a result, the show was a sort of digest version of the Met itself, and as it was all in one place, a little easier on the feet of the tourists who would be dropping in all summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pericles to Picasso | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

When Morgan wants to make fun of Judge Anthony or Gabriel Heatter or Luella Parsons, the Messrs, Anthony and Heatter and Miss Parsons hurt for a long time thereaftr. Once you hear Morgan spoof scientific experts you are pretty shame-faced the next time you take a Reader's Digest cure for acne seriously...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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