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Deadpanned, black-browed, white-haired Elmer Davis, now 55, signed a contract giving him the right to say what he pleases. Still a reporter at heart-he spent ten years on the New York Times-he will be pleased if he can do an unbiased radio news digest. Says he: "Radio has always paid more for tonsils than for brains. I wouldn't have succeeded if I hadn't had the tonsils...
Hoping to improve its citizens' teeth, Newburgh, N.Y. is fluorinating its water supply. Last week another such town-wide test was announced: Pleasantville, N.Y. (pop. 4,357) home of The Reader's Digest, plans to try ultraviolet lamps in its three schools, seven churches and one movie to see if the rays will reduce colds, measles, mumps, etc. Nearby Mount Kisco, about the same size-and lampless-will compare notes with Pleasantville for the three years the experiment runs...
...same profound questions which furrowed the brows of physicists before the war . . . are still with us. The physicist returning from the war has no vast amount of literature to digest. . . because his own dusty files contain virtually the last words written upon the subject...
Publisher Johnson started the Negro Digest-three years ago with the help of a white executive editor, Ben Burns, 31, who has the same title on Ebony, Negro Digest rode the pocket magazines' popularity wave to a 110,000 circulation, gave Publisher Johnson enough profits to start Ebony...
...Digest has published some big-name by-liners who were more "hot & bothered about the race question" . . . than its publisher: Marshall Field did a piece for $25, Orson Welles for $15 (both gave away their fees), and Edward G. Robinson for nothing...