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Dwight Eisenhower keeps a red leather Bible at his bedside, and, judging by the religious content of his speeches, he reads it. His expression of religious faith is more than politician's lip service. Writing in the April Reader's Digest, Roving Editor Stanley High, one of Ike's campaign advisers and once a Congregationalist lay preacher, explains that, in Ike's lexicon, the "spiritual" needs of the U.S. rank ahead of political or economic ones...
Speeder's Digest. In Trumbull, Conn., Victor Hovey, arrested for doing 70 m.p.h. on the Merritt Parkway, told the judge he had not realized how fast he was going because he had become engrossed by his wife's reading of a magazine article on the perils of speeding...
...doctors who never have time to read all their technical literature but spend up to three hours a day in their cars, Los Angeles' College of Medical Evangelists started an "Audio-Digest" service: a tape recorder is installed in the doctor's car and each week, for $2.50, he gets a one-hour summary of medical news...
...looking at his own popularity. A shy but witty man with an archly pure sense of scholarship, Roman Catholic Knox, in his tastes and in the clarity of his thinking harks back to the rigorous England of his youth. Yet a modern public which by & large can no longer digest the simplest of his Latin quotations still queues up to read almost anything he writes...
...Jungle Rot" gives new life to the old satire on safari. Trekking into the heart of the Dark Continent with John E. Hubbard, led by an aged woman in a wheel chair, was ridiculously enjoyable. In an effort to burlesque the "Unforgettable Character" series in the Reader's Digest, T. D. Edwards wrecks a potentially good idea by attempting to hit the "Unforgettable" style, and missing completely. "Alice the Timid Typhoon"--again Updike--is a fable-like story with illustrations. Written in simple, child-like prose, it may conceivably appeal to children...