Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known until last fortnight. Then 1) a seven-man commission of U.S. and British doctors began to tell what they saw on a visit to the Soviet Union last summer, and 2) the first issue appeared of the American Review of Soviet Medicine, a bimonthly which will translate and digest Russian medical literature...
Frenzied Finance. When Gregor Ziemer's book Education for Death was en capsulated in Reader's Digest (February 1942), Hollywood had already passed it up. But one Manhattan movie man was interested. He was Edward A. Golden, a chubby, John Bunnyish old gentleman who had been a dentist for five years, a film distributor for 30. Distributor Golden had taken a shy at production not long before with a for-adults-only sermon on syphilis entitled No Greater Sin. The minute Golden read Education he knew it would make a picture. He even knew the title: Hitler...
...Mackinac? To exchange jokes and cigars in the lobby? They began to wonder. Maine's Governor Sumner Sewall had been on his way almost a week; California's Earl Warren had sat up all night in a plane. Watching the Governors fiddle and fidget, Readers' Digest's Stanley High cracked: "Never have so many come so far to do so little...
Englishmen were offered a long vista last week. From London Bridge they could look through an open door and see the Statue of Liberty. This surrealist panorama, in eight colors, was the cover of the first issue of a brand-new digest-size monthly magazine called Transatlantic (price: one shilling). Its purpose: to give the British a candid, unpropagandized look...
There were more & more patients. The hospital moved back & back. The nurses learned to dive for slit trenches. The weather got hot. Food ran short and was often so poor that Grindlay could not digest it. It began to be time to abandon Burma altogether. Dr. Seagrave began to try to gather up all his people from the outpost hospitals and his old home at Namkham. He corralled nearly all of them. Most of the nurses elected to go along with him to India...