Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salter, in association with Thomas S. Sappington '37, and Miss Hildegarde Wilson, has found, by experimentation on mice, that insulin, thyroid extract, and anterior pituitary gland hormones contain protein substances. The stomach contains enzymes which break up and digest proteins; thus insulin or any other protein type of hormone, if swallowed as food or drink, is treated as protein material...
...dollar watch has to the Greenwich Observatory." This week Critic Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash. His gulp-and-go-on method makes The American Theatre read like a Reader's Digest version of a massive tome; but if valuable matters are slighted, dull ones are junked. Some facts...
Last week it became known that Philadelphia's Curtis Publishing Co. (Sateve-post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) was refusing any further pickings to the Digest. A spokesman for the Post said relations between the two had been "most friendly" (the Digest is believed to have paid Curtis about $20,000 a year), but their contract would definitely not be renewed. Asked for a reason, he replied: "Figure it out for yourself." Best figuring: independent-minded Post Editor Wesley Winans Stout sees no reason for selling ammunition to an important newsstand rival...
Meantime, along Roaring Brook Road in rural Chappaqua, N. Y., workmen are completing a big, red brick building that is already beginning to look a good deal like a village high school. Here all Digest clippers & snippers will soon move from their Pleasantville offices...
Here Mr. Wallace and his highly paid editor-condensers will continue to work out their plans to meet any emergency that may arise to curtail the Digest's diet-plans which include printing original articles along with advice to consumers on advertised products. Already the Digest is growing much of its roughage in its own back yard...