Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beautiful as it was big, Rubens needed a little help. One Manhattan art scholar currently spends most of his hours trying to prove that one of Rubens' assistants deserves most of the credit for Rubens' best stuff. The scholar, Rogers Bordley (Foreign Editor of Art Digest), contends that Rubens was more a fast-talking agent than he was a fast-working artist. He kept a crackerjack stable of less renowned painters in his Antwerp mansion, "finished" and signed their efforts as well...
Many a U.S. doctor dreads the monthly appearance of the Reader's Digest: chances are that Paul de Kruif will be tub-thumping for some new variety of snake oil. And chances are that a lot of patients will clamor for the new remedy, then grumble when told it is dubious or premature...
...Bacteriologist de Kruif has a Ph.D., no M.D.) were a stock joke at the A.M.A. Convention last fortnight. Last week in the A.M.A. Journal Federal Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger viewed with alarm De Kruif's latest discovery: Demerol ("God's Own Medicine-1946," Reader's Digest for June), a painkilling drug which acts much like morphine but is not, said De Kruif, habit-forming...
...camphor-phenol treatment for athlete's foot, which led many Digest readers to experiment with corrosive self-medication. Result: ulcerated feet...
Unless you want to find yourself with nothing to say as that post-game cocktail party, throw away your Reader's Digest, dab your ear-lobes with DDT and get over to the Laffmovie to catch the latest in Marxist doctrine...