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...with artificial feet (a job made easier by U.S. doctors, who saved his heels). His days and nights he spends receiving visitors and answering letters, reading (mostly books about the Far East and detective stories) and writing. One of his articles already has been published by Reader's Digest; a book he is writing, for Macmillan Co., about his experiences in China between the two World Wars, is "about half done...
According to the Fort Devens Digest, PFC Jack A. Stone '42, of the 324th MP Escort Guard Company of Fort Devens, has gained military as well as political honors, for he received a special commendation for work he did at the scene of a train wreck...
...left it to publishers to decide how to reduce. Some, like The Nation, will use lighter weight paper. Reader's Digest, with a circulation over 9,000,000, will have to reduce its circulation, perhaps to as low as 7,000,000, by sending fewer copies to newsstands. FORTUNE had already announced a reduction in its page size effective with its March issue. TIME and LIFE, before the limitation was established, had of their own accord already established limits on the amount of advertising they would accept, and other magazines may now follow. Harper's Bazaar announced...
...changing rapidly-some up, some down. But this took care of only part of the changes. Magazines whose circulation dropped 25% during 1942 may find themselves with paper quotas for 100% of all they want for 1943, and those whose circulations gained rapidly (prime example: the Reader's Digest, up approximately 3,000,000 since early 1942) may have less than 80% of what they now need. Helped most will be radio, where advertising sales are immune to paper limitation...
...Omnibook magazine, for example, runs about one-quarter of original volumes, Reader's Digest slightly less...