Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barclay Acheson, director of the Reader's Digest's International Editions, started for Stockholm to set up a Swedish-language edition. En route, his flying boat crashed on the take-off from Botwood, Newfoundland, and broke in half. The front half sank immediately. Acheson was saved only because he had stepped to the rear of the plane for a smoke just before the crash. This half stayed afloat long enough for him to be rescued. He took up his interrupted trip a week or so later...
This week Acheson was off for Europe again by plane to start another Digest foreign edition. As far as the project itself was concerned, the hazards this time were even greater. The Digest plans to print 500,000 German-language copies a month in Munich, sell them in the American and British zones, starting next February. As there is little paper in the occupied zones, and as no money from those zones may be spent outside them, Acheson plans to print another German-language edition of 100,000 copies for sale in Switzerland. Then he hopes to use revenue from...
Every morning at 8:30 his secretary brings him a list of people who want to see him. Sproul ranks them in order of importance, from four checks down to one. He clips appointments to a 2O-minute maximum, allows himself three minutes in between to dictate a digest of the conversation. These digests are kept in bound volumes; callers are often astonished when Sproul picks up where he left off a year before...
...subject of writing. "Journalism," said he, "has a way of killing the creative writing in a man, because . . . you have to put more and more of your thoughts into your articles, in a simplified form. . . . Soon you find you're producing a kind of perpetual Reader's Digest of yourself...
Although he was never ordained, Congregationalist Stanley High, graduate of Boston University's School of Theology, served as a pastor for three years, later edited the monthly Christian Herald. Now a roving editor of the Reader's Digest, 51-year-old Layman High still takes time out to be a preacher and critic of Protestantism. Last winter he told U.S. Protestants that they were "preacher-ridden" (TIME, Feb. 17). Last week at East Northfield, Mass., he told an interdenominational audience at the 63rd Northfield General Conference that the church was failing its members. Said High...