Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Reader's Digest (circ. 16,000,000) decided to run Columnist Billy Rose's autobiography, Wine, Women and Words, in some of its foreign editions, it ran smack against a language barrier. Who could manage to translate what Rose himself called "grab-bag grammar and tipsy tavernacular...
Last week Rose gave part of the answer in his newspaper column. For the Digest's French and French Canadian editions, Maurice Chevalier, an old Rose friend who knows his Times Square as well as his Montmartre, had turned the Rose prose into "galloping Gallic." Wrote Billy, after a look at Champagne, Danseuses et Stylographe: "You could have knocked me over with an escargot...
Last week the Digest had not yet figured out how to turn Rose into nine other languages, including the Scandinavian...
Meanwhile, the Owenses and two Boston researchers, Dr. V. Everett Kinsey and Dr. Leona Zacharias, had worked out a theory. Premature babies cannot digest fats and so do not get a natural supply of the vitamins (A, D, K and E) found in butterfat. To make up for this, some hospitals give them the vitamins, especially A, in water. Hospitals which use this treatment, the Bostonians reported, have a higher R.L.F. rate than others...
...there was one rift in the prevailing gloom. Martin Codel, editor of Television Digest, reported a flutter of optimism: "Every speculation for fall is good. The reports are too uniform to be mere pep talk. The depression feeling has been completely reversed. With the big football schedules coming up and all the possible World Series towns now linked by coaxial cable, television ought to get off to a big start by fall...