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The feature in the current issue of Reader's Digest (circ. 17.5 million) is a condensation of The Man Who Wouldn't Talk, a spine-chilling tale about a "gentle spy" by Quentin Reynolds. In Reynolds' crackling, reportorial prose, the book describes "quiet, religious" George DuPre, a...
Last week DuPre, Author Reynolds, the Reader's Digest and Random House, the book's publisher, were all themselves subjected to the most horrible torture in publishing. Across Page 1 the Calgary (Alberta) Herald (circ. 56,456) was the headline: CALGARIAN ADMITS SECRET SERVICE STORY WAS A FABRICATION...
IN FRANCE AS SPY. Said the Herald: "The story of George DuPre, as related in the ... Reader's Digest, is a fiction. Millions of people in every country in which the Digest is published will have been taken in ... There are so many holes in [his story] that it...
Awful Truth. DuPre first attracted the Digest's attention six months ago, after giving a number of lectures and broadcasts in Canada on his war experiences. He was invited to suburban Pleasantville, N.Y. to meet the Digest editors. "If there ever was a man who inspired confidence and seemed...
Donald T. Fox '51 was elected chairman of the New England Region of Students for Democratic Action at the regional convention last weekend, and Ann Dupre '50 was chosen secretary.