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...Author. Nicodemus is Author Walworth's fourth novel (the others: Faith of Our Fathers; They Thought They Could Buy It; Feast of Reason). Daughter of a Methodist minister, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Merle Crowell, Novelist Walworth lives in a remodeled farmhouse in Chappaqua, N.Y. Says her friend, Writer Grace Perkins, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Fulton Oursler: "She's small, she's trig, and if she isn't younger than her married daughter, her heart doesn't know it. Her spiritual essence is a faith that permeates everything she does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faith for Straphangers | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...lifted the Mercury to 95,000 circulation, from the 33,000 to which it had sunk when Editor H. L. Mencken wearily stepped out in 1933. It had long since lost all the sudsy sarcasm it had under Mencken, was now an excitable cross between Reader's Digest and an exposé sheet. The Spivak formula: find a man with a promising cause, and exploit them both. Sample "discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tex & Jinx | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

McCrary began his newspapering as a copy boy on the New York World-Telegram, kept secret the fact that he was a Yaleman. His only magazine experience: a period "during which I lived in an oxygen tent" on the old Literary Digest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tex & Jinx | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...first grade in school. But the idea has progressed faster. It has already turned into 15 books which have made her a highly successful mystery writer, with Hollywood contracts. And last week it turned into a contract to become editor of her own mystery magazine, the Craig Rice Crime Digest (scheduled to begin publication this spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mulled Murder, with Spice | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...other eastern colleges, unfamiliar names like "Yale News Digest," "Princeton Bulletin," Dartmouth "Log," and "Harvard Service News" still greeted student readers. The Brown Herald was first again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Herald, First in War And First in Peace, Returns | 12/18/1945 | See Source »

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