Word: digesting
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Macalester's scholarships are in the second category. They are sponsored by the Reader's Digest Foundation, which picks its winners only from finalists who want to go to Macalester. In N.M.S.'s seven-year history, all of the Digest Foundation's 86 scholarships have been for Macalester. In some years, half of all winners in Minnesota have thus chosen Macalester. This year only one of Macalester's 20 winners is un-Digested-a Minnesota lad who crept in on an IBM scholarship...
Unforgettable Character. All this is due to the beneficence of Macalester's Most Unforgettable Character, Reader's Digest Founder-Editor DeWitt Wallace. Wallace, 72, was born at tiny Macalester four years after it opened in 1885. His father, Dr. James Wallace, a Presbyterian preacher and a Greek scholar, was president for a dozen years, and saved the place from bankruptcy. Wallace graduated from neither Macalester nor the University of California, where he later put in a couple of years. But he has poured money into Macalester ever since he got rich selling homily grits...
Life is becoming mechanical, Leary complained. He likened nutrition to "a game in which robots digest food," sex to "a game in which two rubber dolls sleep with each other...
While discussing the March 30 Education section, my ninth grade English class was confused by the quotation taken from the ghostwritten principals' speech. Word for word, it follows "An Open Letter to American Students" by Dwight D. Eisenhower, published in the October 1948 Reader's Digest. We had just read and discussed this letter the previous...
Even the big magazine publishing houses would suffer severely. The postal bill of Philadelphia's beleaguered and money-losing Curtis Publishing Co., already embarked on a drastic cost-cutting program (TIME, March 30), would rise by $6,500,000 a year, to $21.5 million. The Reader's Digest (circ. 13.5 million) has estimated that the proposed rate increases would push its annual mail costs up 28%, to $16.2 million; TIME INC.'S postage payments would rise $7,500,000 a year, to $25.5 million...