Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Reader's Digest editors several months ago decided to publish at Stockholm a Swedish language edition* called Det Besta ur Reader's Digest (TIME, Feb. 1) they figured they would be lucky to sell 20,000 copies of the first issue. Optimistically, they decided to run off 75,000 copies anyway, just in case...
...turning into quite a tidal wave, and if we don't watch out we're going to be washed ashore. RIPTIDE's the name of the mimeographed paper put out each week or so for the WAVES at Radcliffe, so that this column is in a sense a digest of that, neatly trimmed at the edges and censored to meet, the less tolerant gaze of our male confreres...
Sirs: . . . You state (TIME, Feb. 1): "Only privately owned U.S. magazine which is exported in languages other than English is Reader's Digest. . . ." . . . This magazine, La Hacienda, is privately owned and has been published every month without a break since October 1905, in Spanish. Its counterpart in Portuguese has been published every month since 1911. There are no less than six other magazines published in Spanish and exported to Latin America from the United States which have been in existence more than 20 years-not to mention the 65-year-old "Exportador Americano." . . . ALBRO C. GAYLOR New York City...
...influential Catholic Youth Organization (he spent most of a $100,000 legacy from his father in organizing it) everywhere follows his principle that "Jim Crowism in the Church is a disgraceful anomaly." Last week, in a little pamphlet called If I Were A Negro (reprinted from The Negro Digest), Bishop Sheil spoke out strongly to his colored brethren. Said...
Today I received my February issue of the Reader's Digest! You just can't imagine how much real pleasure it has given me. When I come home, tired and hungry and irritable from standing over a hot record all day, I just sit right down and start to chew on some of those precious little pearls of wisdom that drop from its pages. And do they stick in my throat? Do they choke me? Why, I should like to state right here and now that they most certainly...