Word: edi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarded at first with kindly tolerance, Reader's Digest in the late 1920's became a source of alarm to publishers who wondered if its checks made up for its bang-up competition for readers' attention. So Edi tor Wallace quietly began to publish original articles, now pays $500 to $1,000 for such material. Most famed Reader's Digest original was " -and Sudden Death," by Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, which ap peared in August 1935, dramatized the slaughter of automobile casualties, was quoted far & wide, fathered many a horror-struck accident report in the Press...
Pondering these facts, jovian Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association last week was moved to wrath. At two phrases which lately began appearing on the wrappers of Smith Brothers' cough drops and cough syrup he cast a three-column edi torial bolt, gist of which lay in two words. Smith Brothers' phrases were: "Contains Primary VITAMIN A. THE 'ANTI-INFECTIVE' VITAMIN." Editor Fishbein's two words: "meretricious quackery...
...great New York morning papers, Times and Herald Tribune, were meticulous in printing all the testimony, all the news-but no feature stories admiring the fighting spirit of Prosecutor Pecora. Edi- torially they were practically mute. The arch-Republican Herald Tribune spoke up once to the effect that the capital gains ? losses tax is a bad law. (No Manhattan paper made clear the point that the House of Morgan was opposed to that tax clause when it was written.) The Times printed a similar editorial and another entitled "Why It Hurts." Sorrowfully but reverently it found that the House...
...sheets), made friends with the Eskimos, had a good time generally. In the autumn he went home by way of Denmark. Rockwell Kent's pictures in N by E take up almost as much room as the text; it is a superpicturebook. Random House, makers of limited edi tions, have put out a bargain in their unlimited edition of Moby Dick. With 275 Kent drawings, small, well-designed pages, good paper, fine printing (Lakeside Press), it is a revelation of what a publisher can afford to produce with a book- club membership to safeguard his sales...
Elected. Carl Ewald Grunsky of San Francisco; to be President of the American Engineering Council; in Washington. Birthday. Inventor Thomas Alva Edi son; at Fort Myers, Fla. Date...