Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state that at Army PXs comic books outsell LIFE, Reader's Digest and Satevepost combined-10-to-1 [TIME...
...Donald Nelson, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Eric Johnston. But the nasty U.S. correspondent-a vicious roasting of all American journalists who dare to suspect or find one flaw in the Soviet system-was harder to place. Most obvious counterpart in Soviet eyes: the Reader's Digest's William L. White, foreign correspondent and author (They Were Expendable), who accompanied Eric Johnston to Russia last summer. Fortnight ago, Reporter White's Report on the Russians was violently lambasted in Pravda as a "fascist stew" (TIME...
...Were Expendable, Queens Die Proudly), who accompanied U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric A. Johnston on a tour of Russia last summer. Zaslavsky's blast was touched off by White's forthcoming book, Report on the Russians, excerpts from which appear in the December Reader's Digest. Sample passage...
Anna and the King of Siam, by Margaret Landon, is a digest and condensation of the writings of Anna Leonowens, an English officer's widow who in 1862 was hired to teach English to the Siamese monarch's numerous wives and children. Always interesting and sometimes charming, it is surprisingly unsensational for a story of life in a harem...
...readers-or whatever you call them-now buy nearly a quarter-billion comic books a year. The avid addicts are not just kids, either; they include an estimated one out of every five U.S. grownups. At Army post exchanges, comic books outsell LIFE, Reader's Digest and Satevepost combined...