Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Town Hall had been hunting a sponsor for its nine-year-old weekly forum, America's Town Meeting of the Air. The New York Stock Exchange, Newsweek and Reader's Digest were all interested. Last week the rich Digest, Town Hall's first choice, made up its mind. Beginning Sept. 7 it will pay "Town Meeting's" way on 170 Blue Network stations (estimated cost for 39 weeks...
...Town Meeting" is devoted to the unrehearsed, give-&-take discussion of public affairs by assorted experts, is somewhat weighted on the conservative side. "Town Meeting," said the Digest's editors, will "implement the Digest's confidence in 'cracker-barrel' discussion ... as an essential part of the democratic process...
During the next year Hopkins spent more weeks at Mayo's. His trouble seemed to be that his stomach simply would not digest food; osmosis would not take place unless he took medicine that added acid to his stomach. So long as he took his medicines, he kept going. But on trips he often forgot. After the London and Moscow Conferences in 1941, he had to be rushed to the Naval Hospital in Bethesda. He returned from Teheran and Cairo worn down and sniffling, went to Florida to rest, wound up last week in Rochester...
...years, Howard Vincent O'Brien had been offering Daily News readers a pleasant column of unspectacular introspection called All Things Considered. The morning he said good-by to Donel, Columnist O'Brien caught the public where its heart is. His "So Long, Son" column stuck. Readers' Digest reprinted it. So did a score of lesser magazines, newspapers, house organs. Throughout the U.S., the farewell to Donel was read aloud to women's clubs, schools, Rotary luncheons, radio listeners. Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston and the Treasury Hour scattered it over the networks. With frankly sentimental fingers, Father...
Twenty-one years is a long time as magazines go. Most of the famous magazines of 1923 are gone now-Scribner's, Century, World's Work, Outlook, McClure's, Everybody's, Review of Reviews, Vanity Fair, Forum, Metropolitan, The Literary Digest. Of the ten leading advertising media today only three were in business when TIME began. And of the 13 other magazines which started publication the same year only two remain. So I think every one of us at TIME is deeply conscious on this 21st birthday that any magazine must change and grow with...