Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same profound questions which furrowed the brows of physicists before the war . . . are still with us. The physicist returning from the war has no vast amount of literature to digest. . . because his own dusty files contain virtually the last words written upon the subject...
Publisher Johnson started the Negro Digest-three years ago with the help of a white executive editor, Ben Burns, 31, who has the same title on Ebony, Negro Digest rode the pocket magazines' popularity wave to a 110,000 circulation, gave Publisher Johnson enough profits to start Ebony...
...Digest has published some big-name by-liners who were more "hot & bothered about the race question" . . . than its publisher: Marshall Field did a piece for $25, Orson Welles for $15 (both gave away their fees), and Edward G. Robinson for nothing...
...does, the last editorial voice in the ivy league colleges will be stilled. The Princeton Bulletin, a miniature thrice-weekly sheet prepared by a secretary in the Dean's Office, has replaced the daily Princetonian. Yale's publicity office issues, with student assistance, a News Digest each week. The Harvard CRIMSON, realizing that rapid turnover and a younger student body discourages a mature and consistent editorial policy, publishes, still independently, the voice-less Service News each week. Dartmouth's position is similar to Harvard's, though the Log, successor to the Indian, is slanted more Navy-wise...
Twenty years ago he himself made headline news with his own experiments with atomic power, and The Literary Digest carried a long report on how Dr. Wendt had released atomic energy by bombarding tungsten in a vacuum tube at a temperature six times as hot as the sun and transmuting some of the tungsten into helium...