Word: digestants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Current Jewish Record is a pocket-size monthly similar to Reader's Digest. It is an anthology of articles culled from the press of the world about Jews, Jewish problems, or subjects affecting Jews. By no means all the material is selected from the Jewish press. In the first issue are articles from Nation, Christian Century, FORTUNE, Outlook, Harper's, New Republic. In the publishers' words the magazine will "convey a cross section picture of the Jew . . . express no editorial opinion, sponsor no 'isms' . . . leave to the organizations which are better equipped for the purpose...
...inclinations both headed him down Broadway. More & more he became legal mouthpiece to the under world (Arnold Rothstein, Nicky Arnstein), stage-door playboy (Gertrude Vanderbilt, Peggy Hopkins Joyce). A brilliant improviser, he defended his cases with very little preparation; but, when it was necessary he could digest four technical books on gynecology in one night. In court he was the perennial schoolboy who plagued the judge to win the jury. His carelessly superior air drove opposing lawyers wild. Defending a well-ankled blackmailer, he won her first trial by exposing as much of her legs as pos sible...
...industry because it witnessed a large number of regional conventions, culminating last week in the Golden Jubilee Convention of the National Funeral Directors' Association in Detroit; important for its press because there was big news to be reported and because of the advent of a new magazine, Mortuary Digest, published in Los Angeles by Fred Witman...
First issue of Mortuary Digest was not impressive in appearance-32 pages with scanty advertising & illustration-but it was pungent in its discussion of funeral problems. One of Editor Witman's first editorials pooh-poohed the profession's effort to popularize the term "mortician...
...people want to get into the families, and spread the high-power selling racket." Editor Witman's solution: Let the funeral director carry a sideline of urns at a modest price and "sell" a bigger funeral. As in most trade magazines, there is a page in the Mortuary Digest reserved for informal shoptalk. It is headed "The Back Room." Advertisements in the funeral press are quite different from the subtle "institutional" advertisements of casket makers, cemeteries and crematories which appear in popular magazines. Some are outspoken : "This casket will be a wonderful seller. . . ." "The casket of the month- Rustless...