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...beaten and knifed to death (see cut). Daily through Rome's streets roared big trucks bringing thousands from the city's slums to Communist rallies-not to fill their empty bellies but to pour down their throats such a gospel of hate as only empty stomachs could digest...
...third-rater. Gregarious, greying Leslie Roberts, 51, a longtime newsman, was executive assistant to Canada's Minister of National Defense in the early years of the war, later a war correspondent. Currently, he free-lances for such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Collier's and Canada's top slick, Maclean's. On the side, he turns out a thrice-weekly column for the Montreal Herald...
...Wallace decided to slash the price, make up the difference by taking ads. This was tried in a Spanish-language edition for Latin America in December 1940. It sold so well (it now guarantees 1,000,000 circulation) that the Digest has followed it with 13 other editions* in eight different languages. The editorial content is the same as the U.S. edition (circ. 8,000,000) but more so: it is further digested, to about two-thirds the domestic size...
Profit: the Exception. By the end of this year, they will have lost an estimated $1,750,000. The only ones expected to make money this year are the Spanish and Scandinavian editions-and that profit will be Digest size. But Editor Wallace thinks he has licked the biggest trouble-high foreign printing costs-by means of a new press the Digest has spent $400,000 developing. With this, and more ads, he expects to cut his foreign edition losses to $200,000 in 1948, break even in 1949, make money...
...sentimental O'Brien column, written the day his son Donel went off to war -and death-told a universal story. It was reprinted in Reader's Digest, read on the radio and at Rotary Clubs...