Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with artificial feet (a job made easier by U.S. doctors, who saved his heels). His days and nights he spends receiving visitors and answering letters, reading (mostly books about the Far East and detective stories) and writing. One of his articles already has been published by Reader's Digest; a book he is writing, for Macmillan Co., about his experiences in China between the two World Wars, is "about half done...
...conservative New England Journal of Medicine recently jumped on "the erroneous conception that malaria can be eradicated by means of a five-day treatment with the synthetic drug, atabrine." Attacking an article ("Enter Atabrine-Exit Malaria") written by Paul de Kruif in the Reader's Digest, the Journal pointed out that there is as yet no sure cure for malaria, that the disease and its problems are anything but simple...
...editing, OWI's overseas director Robert E. Sherwood picked 29-year-old Kenneth W. Purdy, a Midwesterner who left the University of Wisconsin to become editor of the Oshkosh (Wis.) Fox Valley Free Press at 21. Then he joined the Annenberg publications, working on Radio Guide and Radio Digest. He went to Click in 1938, later went to Look, joined the Donovan Committee in November...
...Only privately owned U.S. magazine which is exported in languages other than English is Reader's Digest, which has editions in Spanish (800,000 copies) and Portuguese (400,000), largely for Latin Americans, and in March will bring out a Swedish-language edition to be published in Stockholm (where paper is plentiful) and called Det Besta ur Reader's Digest (The Best from the Reader's Digest...
According to the Fort Devens Digest, PFC Jack A. Stone '42, of the 324th MP Escort Guard Company of Fort Devens, has gained military as well as political honors, for he received a special commendation for work he did at the scene of a train wreck...