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...John K. Cartwright, a Catholic priest, contended that Esquire has a tendency to encourage low ideas of women. When Attorney Bromley brought out the fact that the Catholic Digest has carried reprints from Esquire and that Father Flanagan, of Boys' Town fame, has contributed articles to Esquire, Witness Cartwright countered: "Bad judgment...
...known until last fortnight. Then 1) a seven-man commission of U.S. and British doctors began to tell what they saw on a visit to the Soviet Union last summer, and 2) the first issue appeared of the American Review of Soviet Medicine, a bimonthly which will translate and digest Russian medical literature...
...Duke is a tribute. The 29th book of Richard Aldington, 51, and his best, it is to the vast library of material on Wellington what Reader's Digest is to the accumulation of writing in U.S. magazines - an expert job of condensation and synthesis, inspired when its source materials are inspired, slowgoing when the mass of detail is incorporated at the expense of color and warmth. The Duke is also salted with the Tory aphorisms of a simple man who did not know that what he said was wisdom...
Frenzied Finance. When Gregor Ziemer's book Education for Death was en capsulated in Reader's Digest (February 1942), Hollywood had already passed it up. But one Manhattan movie man was interested. He was Edward A. Golden, a chubby, John Bunnyish old gentleman who had been a dentist for five years, a film distributor for 30. Distributor Golden had taken a shy at production not long before with a for-adults-only sermon on syphilis entitled No Greater Sin. The minute Golden read Education he knew it would make a picture. He even knew the title: Hitler...
Englishmen were offered a long vista last week. From London Bridge they could look through an open door and see the Statue of Liberty. This surrealist panorama, in eight colors, was the cover of the first issue of a brand-new digest-size monthly magazine called Transatlantic (price: one shilling). Its purpose: to give the British a candid, unpropagandized look...