Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publisher Hillman and Editor Lyons bristle at the suggestion that their new 25? slick-paper, pocket-sized magazine is another Coronet, beam at comparison with Reader's Digest. Disinterested readers may find Pageant an agreeable blend...
...being invaded by the British press. First was a weekly digest of articles in Lord Rothermere's Tory Daily Mail, which likes to needle Americans; next came an India-paper edition of the government-blessed London Times, distributed free to 250 Americans; after that, Lord Beaverbrook's mammoth Daily Express began sending over a full-sized, newsprint daily; last week, the first copies of an India-paper edition of Lord Camrose's conservative Daily Telegraph & Morning Post breezed...
These words, which appeared in an article in the Reader's Digest fortnight ago, spelled trouble for Author Alexander Barmine, a onetime Red Army brigadier general, onetime boss of Soviet exports of autos, aviation equipment and armaments. Barmine, disillusioned with the U.S.S.R., broke with the Soviet Union in 1937, came to the U.S., where he has worked as a translator with the hush-hush Office of Strategic Services. Barmine's article said, in part...
...after the Reader's Digest reached the newsstands, Barmine received a registered letter at home informing him that he had been discharged by OSS. The reason: "continued absences." Last week, Barmine termed this "completely false and preposterous." Less than a month ago, he said, he had been commended for his work. And last April, when he had tried to resign because of ill health, his resignation was turned down. He was given a pay raise along with permission for brief absences for treatment. Since then, OSS admitted, Barmine has not been absent oftener than any other employe...
...students of special merit are given cards to the Library, to the horror of older members. "Why," declared one indignant Back Bay lady, "these young women come in with their lipstick and their fur coats, and actually ask for scholarly books, thereby adding hypocrisy to their other sins!"--Readers Digest, September...