Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote his 15-year class report (TIME, Sept. 8), he proved one thing about Yalemen: they are successful often to the point of glamour. But what about their wives? To answer that question, the Yale Alumni Magazine commissioned Agnes Rogers, an editor of the Reader's Digest and wife of Frederick Lewis (Only Yesterday) Allen* of Harper's Magazine, to dip into the record of the class of '37. Last week, Editor Rogers submitted her report: Mrs. Yale, she found, looks less glamorous in statistics, but she has seen her duty and she does...
...understandable joy of the editors of the Catholic Digest over their recent poll should be tempered with a large dose of realism. It is very easy to check an answer on a questionnaire, particularly if the answer proves one a good person. It is quite another matter to live on the assumption of the validity of the Christian (or even the theistic) philosophy in the routine of daily life...
...gratifying to know that such a large percentage of Americans believe in God. However . . . did it ever occur to the editors of the Catholic Digest to ask these subjects "why" they believe in God? It would certainly be much more gratifying if the answer was obtained and the percentage of valid reasons stayed the same...
...Digest bases its findings on a nationwide sampling in which people were offered a choice of phrases suggesting varying degrees of conviction. Eighty-seven percent felt "absolutely certain," ten percent were "fairly sure," two percent were "not quite sure," though not doubtful enough to class themselves as unbelievers...
...general affirmative made the Digest editors happy. They concluded: "Since there are only a few who do not believe, we need not fear their effect on our national belief or its strength...