Word: digester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...richly stocked smörgasbord table spread each month by U. S. magazine publishers, the first and daintiest forkfuls of reprint rights generally go to the oldest and richest customer-famed, slightly fabulous Reader's Digest. The stout little Digest totes the biggest plate because it pays the biggest prices, has kept the good will of its hosts by refusing advertising. Sometimes it makes other magazines presents of free, full-length articles which it then digests and "reprints...
Despite its enormous, secret circulation (lately rumored around 3,000,000) and its equally impressive profits (which FORTUNE reported at $418,000 in 1935), the Digest and its owners, DeWitt and Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, still have nightmares when they think of one thing. What if other magazine publishers stopped allowing Reader's Digest to reprint their articles at any price...
...Holy Bible is a library in itself. Its 66 volumes contain 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses, 773,692 words. Published last week was A Digest of-the Bible* in 284 pages, whose author, Peter V. Ross, California lawyer and Christian Science lecturer, said: "If you can read 50 interesting pages in the course of an evening, you can, during the evenings of one busy week, read the Bible-here shaped to swiftly moving narrative...
...Book Digest, published by Joseph J. White, offers for 25? each month three or four condensations (5,000-8,000 words) of current books, about eight shorter condensations or excerpts from other works. Book Digest pays publishers $100 for long condensations, runs no advertisements, claims 50,000 circulation. Publishers liked the idea, for they had noted increased sales of such books as Reader's Digest, pocket-size colossus, digested each month...
Perhaps Dick Harlow taught the boys more than they could digest in the way of open football. Fundamentals were not neglected in the first three weeks of practice, but these fundamentals were not in evidence Saturday. If Harlow taught much of the blocking by using the new mirrors, then the mirrors ought to be scrapped-- gently, though, because it's bad luck to break mirrors...