Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summer Slichter, Lamont University Professor of Economics, writing in the current issue of Reader's Digest, says that "productivity in the United States is growing faster now than it was a century ago" and "output per man hour is growing more than three times as fast...
...Told, The Greatest Book Ever Written), newspaper columnist ("A Modern Parable" in 65 papers), playwright (The Spider), whodunit writer (under the pseudonym Anthony Abbott), editor in chief (1931-42) of Liberty magazine, editorial, boss (1941) of all Macfadden Publications, and (since 1944) a senior editor of Reader's Digest; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once an agnostic, Oursler visited Palestine in 1935 and wrote A Skeptic in the Holy Land ("I started out being very skeptical, but in the last chapter I was nearly converted"). Eight years later he joined the Roman Catholic Church, from then on devoted...
...soon as he awoke at the English-style house across from the Episcopal Cathedral, where he lives amid green lawns and shrubberies in the admiration of a highly intelligent wife, two secretaries, a young lady researcher and a pair of French poodles, he went into his study to digest the daily papers. Then, at his desk in bath robe and slippers, he polished off the morning's chore of writing. With the help of the young lady researcher, who has an office on the third floor, he has checked and rechecked his facts...
Estes Kefauver's voting record as a member of the House of Representatives (1939-48) and Senator (1949-) is not well known. Nine out of ten times he votes the straight Administration line. Here is a digest of his record since World...
...Reader's Digest versions of two Verdi operas are currently confusing patrons of the Kenmore Theatre. It's difficult to understand how one can be so good and the other so abysmally...