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...Vietnamese died, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that died. By now over a million Vietnamese have been killed and probably 80 thousand Americans. If all of us felt even a little bit of that in our stomachs, not even all of America could digest that much sorrow...
...been there only a year when Ebony Publisher John Johnson offered him the editorship of Negro Digest. The publication had been founded in 1942 as a carbon copy of the Reader's Digest, just as Ebony imitated LIFE, and Jet, another Johnson publication, was a black substitute for Coronet. Despite such well-Digested features as "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience," the imitation collapsed in 1951. To keep abreast of the new black militancy, Johnson revived it ten years later and turned it over to Fuller...
...sold to the Book-of-the-Month Club in the U.S. (this November's selection) and, at an estimated $1,000,000, is contracted for the largest first printing in Pocket Books' history (close to 3,000,000 copies). It is a Reader's Digest Condensed Book for the fall. Film rights are bought for more than $500,000. Papillon has become a light industry...
...President's eyes only," the news summary in fact is distributed to 50 presidential aides. Frequently, a special editorial analysis is included, reflecting journalistic reaction to a current major issue, like Nixon's recent veto of two appropriations bills. Each Wednesday Nixon also receives a digest of the contents of some 25 magazines, ranging from TIME and other newsmagazines to I.F. Stone's Bi-Weekly...
...Bibliophile. Examination of the daily news summary tends to substantiate the staff's contention that it gives the President-referred to as RN in the digest-the bitter with the sweet. Last week, for instance, it contained the caustic appraisals of Vice President Spiro Agnew that came in response to Agnew's attack on the McGovern-Hatfield end-the-war amendment. It also took note of Senator Edward Kennedy's statement that he was "shocked and disappointed" by the Nixon decision to retain quotas on oil imports...