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...tasted fame and fortune. His new novel, Island in the Sun, to be published in January, has made an across-the-board clean sweep of U.S. literary jackpots: 1) the Ladies' Home Journal is serializing it; 2) the Literary Guild has chosen it; 3) the Reader's Digest Book Club will digest it; and 20th Century-Fox will film...
Sales Pitch. Even where the product was not readily identifiable, salesmen were hard at work as dramatic show after dramatic show peddled the quintessential goodness of man in one well-contrived happy ending after another. On the TV Reader's Digest, a lantern-jawed angel of goodwill named Charlie Faust did for the New York Giants what only Satan could accomplish for the Washington Senators in the Broadway musicomedy Damn Yankees. On Chrysler's Climax!, Betty Furness and Franchot Tone went to the trouble of killing off an expendable playboy on the operating table to bring understanding back...
...gone to school only as far as the third grade, he now absorbed all that prison libraries could teach him about chemistry, biology, ornithology. Displaying heroic patience, he carried out thousands of experiments with homemade apparatus, found remedies for major bird diseases that had baffled pathologists. His 500-page Digest of the Diseases of Birds, published in 1943, is still widely used...
...Daily Racing Form; until the Wartime paper shortage killed it, he printed four regional editions of Radio Guide. In 1953 he decided he could turn out a national-local television magazine, bought (for an estimated $2,750,000) New York's TV Guide, Philadelphia's TV Digest, Chicago's TV Forecast, and combined them. For his nationwide TV Guide, Annenberg adopted a digest-size format (just the right size for keeping on top of a TV set) and set out to do a job the newspapers overlooked: cover the news of television and give detailed, accurate program...
...that there had been time to digest the events of Geneva, what was the aftertaste? Beyond the spreading conviction that in Europe peace would be the atmosphere for some time to come, beyond the universal admiration for Eisenhower's imaginative directness, some important second thoughts began to be felt...