Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even send Rayburn the proposal worked out by Keating and Rogers. Instead, newsmen handed Sam a copy. He read it once, grunted, read it again, then again and again, finally announced: "This is very deep stuff. I'll have to have a little more time to digest it." Whereupon he disappeared into his office, taking with him four fellow Texans to aid in the digestive process. The Republicans' "deep stuff": 1) the contempt of court provisions of the bill would apply to violations of voting rights only, and not to all criminal contempt cases, as the Senate bill...
...twain ever meet? With his latest book, Americans and Novelist Cozzens stand their best chance of getting acquainted. An initial printing of 50,000 copies is off the presses. Reader's Digest has paid $100,000 for the right to run a condensation in Reader's Digest Condensed Books. The novel's movie rights have been sold for $100,000. This time, apparently, Cozzens in going to reach beyond that loyal band of fans whom Critic John Mason Brown has dubbed "the many few, more than a coterie, less than a crowd...
Using the same circulation system and editorial approach, Methodist-sponsored Together will probably pass a million by its first anniversary in October. As indicated by the growth of such other middlebrow religious magazines as the monthly Catholic Digest (circ. 884,820) and the weekly Lutheran (176,100), the U.S. religious press has at last learned to treat subscribers as readers first, churchgoers second. Said Together Publisher Clark: "We feel we are reaching some of the marginal millions on the periphery of church interest...
...first of two articles on filter-tip cigarettes, Reader's Digest reported this month that American Tobacco Co.'s king-size filter brand, Hit Parade, actually contains 15% more tar and 33% more nicotine than the same company's unfiltered, regular-size Lucky Strike, which sells for 2? less a pack. Said the Digest: "It is entirely possible to manufacture filter tips much more efficient than any now on the market." They 1) "would cost no more to produce," and 2) would give smokers "a significant reduction in cancer risk" (see MEDICINE). Last week, after 18 years...
...midstream, he found that he couldn't make it, lost his underwear when he opened his mouth. Making his way back to shore, he trudged back to the cabin, the bones of the deer carcass, and a couple 1954 issues of the Reader's Digest he had found in the shed. His favorite Digest story: the tale of a man who was washed off a ship and remembered how much he loved his wife and children while waiting for rescue...