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These words, which appeared in an article in the Reader's Digest fortnight ago, spelled trouble for Author Alexander Barmine, a onetime Red Army brigadier general, onetime boss of Soviet exports of autos, aviation equipment and armaments. Barmine, disillusioned with the U.S.S.R., broke with the Soviet Union in 1937, came to the U.S., where he has worked as a translator with the hush-hush Office of Strategic Services. Barmine's article said, in part...
...students of special merit are given cards to the Library, to the horror of older members. "Why," declared one indignant Back Bay lady, "these young women come in with their lipstick and their fur coats, and actually ask for scholarly books, thereby adding hypocrisy to their other sins!"--Readers Digest, September...
...presses of the mighty, august London Times last week came first copies of an "air edition," expected to reach the U.S. within 48 hours of publication. Unlike the Daily Mail's weekly transatlantic digest (TIME, Dec. 27), whose U.S. circulation has now reached 4,500, the Thunderer's new edition is daily, full-sized, complete-but printed on India paper. For the present it will be sold in certain European countries, distributed free to a few key people in the U.S. and Canada...
Most recent, most ambitious Joyce interpreters are Joseph Campbell (former intercollegiate half-miler and now English professor at Sarah Lawrence College) and Henry Morton Robinson (former English instructor at Columbia University, now senior editor of Readers Digest).† They have spent five years "hacking a narrative trail" through Finnegans Wake which was "like going through the heart of darkest Africa...
...preferred": American, Click, Collier's, Coronet, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Liberty, LIFE, Look, National Geographic, Newsweek, New Yorker, Omnibook, Pic, Reader's Digest, Redbook, Saturday Evening Post, TIME...