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Lost Boundaries (Film Classics), first published as a real-life drama in Reader's Digest, described the tragic dilemma of a fair-skinned Negro family in a small New England town who for years had "passed" as whites. The father was a prosperous doctor and a pillar of the community, the mother an active worker in civic affairs. The children, unaware of their antecedents, were normal, happy-go-lucky American school kids-until the day their father, whose secret had been exposed by U.S. naval intelligence, told them the truth. From there on, they became in their own minds...
...Producer Louis de Rochemont, who unearthed this somber bit of Americana in the neighborhood of his New England home and passed it on to Reader's Digest, the story was a natural. Past master of the documentary film (MARCH OF TIME, Fighting Lady, etc.) and a vocal opponent of Hollywood's sound stage techniques, De Rochemont set to work on location in Portsmouth, N.H. For his cast he recruited a handful of relatively unknown actors and a group of Portsmouth citizens. For sets he used what "was ready to hand: the chaste interiors of Portsmouth homes...
...state that "boiled down, his case for air power got the Reader's Digest into boiling water with the Navy." Your implication . . . that I have in some manner embarrassed the Digest ... is a false implication...
...Author Huie is entirely right about his book; TIME was dead wrong. 2) In a letter to the Reader's Digest, Admiral Denfeld's office took exception to 26 points (some of them labeled "major misstatements") in Huie's first Digest article. 3) Collier's found "no basis" for six statements in Huie's football article. It printed an apology: "A serious injustice [to] the University of Alabama ... we sincerely regret its publication." 4) Both the FBI and Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, said they were satisfied with...
That was how the New York Sun described the Black Tom explosion of July 30, 1916. The Literary Digest scoffed at reports that German saboteurs had blown up the Black Tom pier to prevent munitions shipments to the Allies; it said that such rumors "died of sheer inanition almost as soon as born...