Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood last summer Walt Disney, restless creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and many another cinanimal, was playing mental tiddlywinks with the idea of putting together a monthly animated-cartoon digest, roughly analogous in the motion-picture field to the spectacularly successful Reader's Digest...
Digging for suggestions, he browsed through a copy of the Digest, came upon a condensation of Victory Through Air Power, the brash, controversial best-seller dashed off by Major Alexander P. ("Sascha") de Seversky to advertise his passionate belief that the war can best be won by bombing planes of unprecedented size and range, wielded by an independent air command...
...rest of the college news which includes the Navy, Marine, and ASTP College Training Units' activities is covered by the Yale News Digest which is to be published by the Yale News Bureau three times a week. Richard Lee of the News Bureau is to be the Managing Editor...
...Cambridge University, announced he would "explain homemade Fascism" to the English, gave as an example "John Lee Smith, Lieutenant-Governor of Texas [and] Laborbaiter." Replied Smith: "The shipping space . . . could be better used by shipping some good Texas beefsteak which English stomachs would relish better than English brains will digest the mental slumgullion which Dobie has for them...
...American Ears. The anniversary of the Doolittle raid was one day away when Tokyo broadcast a translated digest of the speech to the U.S. This version had been drastically altered. The English broadcast quoted General Sato as having said that Japanese planes "are in a position to attack the American continent. ..." The Japs had already solved the problem presented by "the wide span of area between Japan and America." In fact, said the revised version, if the Americans knew what was good for them they would stop sending their battle planes to the Pacific and Asia, and prepare to "defend...