Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brothers-James, John, Joseph Wesley and Fletcher -had made a name for themselves* in the book-publishing business, still had some idle press time on their hands. To keep presses and employees profitably busy they started Harper's New Monthly Magazine, a sort of undigested Reader's Digest of fiction of the day, bought the galley proofs of the current works of Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and other English greats, and ran them as serials. Overnight, Harper's became a success. Literary Americans became such fans of the magazine, not only for its fiction but for its factual...
...name of the magazine since 1929) was boosting its circulation guarantee another 50,000, to 1,250,000. Hecht, who now publishes five other successful magazines, also sent a new journalistic offspring out into the world. He put on sale 200,000 copies of The Children's Digest, a gay-colored pocket-sized monthly that was a frank imitation of the Reader's Digest. Children's Digest will reprint the best stories, comics and other features from children's magazines and books...
...blood & thunder comic books ("I won't publish stuff like that"), he brought out True Comics to tell the stories of great men and great deeds. True Comics made a poor showing against its hardboiled, blood-spilling brethren, and Hecht recently dropped it. In Children's Digest, he hopes to put over the idea in a slightly different way. Said hopeful Parent Hecht: "We think we can build the Digest...
Died. Peyton Boswell Jr., 45, editor and publisher of the twice-monthly Art Digest, biographer of Painters Henry Varnum Poor and George Bellows; of a heart ailment; in Malverne...
...teeth to the $29 billion omnibus appropriation bill. The more the House looked at the thing, the bigger the bill had grown-an additional $385 million for national defense, millions for creeks, dams and other sordid items of pork-barrel politics. It had become just too much to digest; besides, members had been getting letters from constituents demanding an end to reckless spending. With more courage than it had shown all year, the House put its jaws to work...