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...Hollywood last summer Walt Disney, restless creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and many another cinanimal, was playing mental tiddlywinks with the idea of putting together a monthly animated-cartoon digest, roughly analogous in the motion-picture field to the spectacularly successful Reader's Digest...
Digging for suggestions, he browsed through a copy of the Digest, came upon a condensation of Victory Through Air Power, the brash, controversial best-seller dashed off by Major Alexander P. ("Sascha") de Seversky to advertise his passionate belief that the war can best be won by bombing planes of unprecedented size and range, wielded by an independent air command...
...cartoon digest notion never got out of swaddling clothes, but Disney's imagination had been kindled by Seversky's vivid word pictures of what air war could, and would, be like in the immediate future. He arranged a meeting with Sascha, and the two men set to work to translate the book into film. The resulting Disney-Seversky Victory Through Air Power will open in New York next week, then be distributed nationally by United Artists...
...eleven months The Reader's Digest held its peace while the makers of Old Gold cigarets jammed the air with commercials ballyhooing how "impartial scientific tests conducted by The Reader's Digest showed Old Golds contain less nicotine than any other well-known brand." People who remembered how microscopically small was the puff given Old Golds by the Digest and knew how strongly Editor DeWitt Wallace feels about exaggerated ads (his magazine accepts no ads at all) wondered how long it would be before he cracked back...
...rest of the college news which includes the Navy, Marine, and ASTP College Training Units' activities is covered by the Yale News Digest which is to be published by the Yale News Bureau three times a week. Richard Lee of the News Bureau is to be the Managing Editor...