Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhoads read the scientific sections of the cover story before publication and found no error in them. After the issue was on the newsstands the father of one Memorial patient, a 16-year-old boy, read the story and set out to buy 100 newsstand copies to send to friends...
Reader's Digest asked and was given permission to reprint the story. Later, after all concerned at Memorial Hospital had had a chance to read and discuss it, we were asked if we could supply Memorial with 450,000 reprints of the story and its cover portrait...
...interested in cancer research. Regarding its emphasis on this last group, a spokesman for the hospital said: "TIME'S story was well done, and it tells the story of cancer effectively and in language the layman can understand. We think that as many laymen as possible ought to read...
Eight to Four. After the jury retired, Alger Hiss sat in the courtroom reading a magazine. He seemed unworried, even happy. As the evening wore on, he read bulldog editions of the morning papers, chewed gum. As hour after hour dragged by, Hiss's confident smile faded. Everybody thought that if there were to be an acquittal, it would come fast. That was the way Stryker and Hiss had pitched their case-to brand the whole charge ridiculous. Obviously, some members of the jury did not think...
...defending Herndon I had to familiarize myself with many Communist books and they made sense to me. As I read them I thought of them in terms of my father and the Ku Klux Klan crosses burned in his front yard when he became a member of the Republican National Committee, and of my mother, who died early because of that kind of thing...