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...Wood withdrew to digest his reports, the President called a White House conference of members from both parties. To them he would put his ideas, weigh their opinions and objections. The decision called for all the statesmanship he possessed. He could risk everything now on one smashing fight to repeal the entire act-which his advisers held would be an enormous boost to the morale of all the world. Or he could move as he has been moving, step by step, whittling the act's barriers away one by one. The first choice would involve great risks. Even defeat...
Protestant Digest New York City...
...months the Spanish edition of Reader's Digest has become the biggest-selling Spanish-language magazine on record (350,000 circulation), and Publisher DeWitt Wallace has taken his place among the big U.S. exporters to Latin America. Last week he announced a new project for winning Latin American friends and losing money. It is a Portuguese edition of Reader's Digest for Brazil. Scheduled for delivery Jan. 10, starter edition will be 100,000 copies...
Like the Spanish edition (Selecciones del Reader's Digest), the Portuguese Selacçàaos will lose money to start with. Two further ideas will increase Reader's Digest's Latin American budget: 1) a talent-scouting trip, now afield, in search of articles from Latin America (not to exceed 40% of magazine's content); 2) sponsoring free U.S. tours for Latin American writers...
Twenty years of stale marriage did harm enough to the mature Dickens; but the wound from which he never recovered was the six months he spent as a child in a ratty London warehouse, pasting labels on bottles. "Dickens' whole career was an attempt to digest these early shocks and hardships, to explain them to himself, to justify himself in relation to them, to give an intelligible and tolerable picture of a world in which such things could occur." Wilson demonstrates that the novels are powerful and bitter social criticism; that the Dickens character gallery contains ever more pitiless...