Word: digester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some magazines that manage to pay their own way also stand in serious if not mortal danger. Last year, for example, four magazines addressed primarily to contemplative readers-Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Catholic Digest and Saturday Review-together netted only $55,74° on a combined circulation of 1,557,000. The new postal rates would add some $535,000 to their combined postal bill. Atlantic Monthly Publisher Donald Snyder has estimated that his magazine's share alone would be $91,000-more than seven times Atlantic's 1961 profit before taxes...
...offset printing-the growth of lithography in the U.S. has been phenomenal. There are more companies building web* offset presses today than there were web offset presses just 25 years ago. Many national magazines with international editions reach their overseas readers via offset presses. Of the Reader's Digest's 28 foreign editions.* for example, 21 are offset-printed-and so are 72 to 96 pages, or more than 25%, of each issue of the Digest's U.S. edition (13.5 million...
...Artist Andre Lhote on page 15. Readers anxious to discover how the new paper would deal with U.S. culture were soon disillusioned: the Observer begged the question. Theater and book reviews were shot through with a rehash of newspaper and magazine critics, a technique reminiscent of the defunct Literary Digest...
Died. William Hard Sr., 83, longtime (since 1940) roving editor of the Reader's Digest, a onetime Chicago settlement-house director who became one of U.S. journalism's first and most effective muckrakers, won fame for his crusades for social reform in articles for the Nation, New Republic and Saturday Evening Post...
...following article is reprinted from the January issue of CURRENT, a digest periodical. The article appeared first in HARPER'S, under the title "The Wasted Classroom." Mr. Glazer was a co-author of The Lonely Crowd...