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...outstandingly successful phenomenon of U. S. publishing is Reader's Digest, which was modestly launched 18 years ago-with the idea of reprinting condensations of worthwhile articles-and today has a circulation of 3,200,000 copies. With no advertising but with a simple format and a substantial price (25? a copy) it became a highly profitable enterprise in the hands of its editor-owners DeWitt and Lila Bell Acheson Wallace...
From their profits as the years went by, Mr. & Mrs. Wallace not only increased the thickness of Reader's Digest. They began making substantial payments to magazines whose articles they reprinted, began sending extra checks to the authors of those articles and finally even commissioned free-lance writers to prepare original articles which they either printed or presented to other magazines and "reprinted...
Reader's Digest went further and began publishing Braille and phonographic editions of itself for the blind. Since Reader's Digest pays over the entire subscription price of these editions (paid for, in many cases, by regular subscribers) to the American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., it amounts to a philanthropic enterprise...
...Several months ago, a Londoner named J. R. B. Branson wrote to the Times, suggesting that it would be a good idea for Britishers to learn to eat fresh green grass. Mr. Walter Elliott, the British Minister of Health, was not amused. The human stomach, said he stiffly, cannot digest grass...
...Rearmament. Fact was that for the Army-which needed and got most of the emergency funds-it was only partial rearmament and on a 1938 scale. If the U. S. thought it could arm itself against these times at such small cost, or that its present military establishment could digest even such comparatively small sums, it still had another illusion to meet and overcome. Aircraft excepted, about all the Franklin Roosevelt's initial estimates could do was provide what the Army thought it needed before Hitler's mechanized hordes changed the modern definition...