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...Likes It." Today, as the world's most widely distributed magazine, the Digest wields an editorial force that often takes strange forms. Its preoccupation with sex might make even a Confidential reader blush. The Digest delights in double-entendre page-enders or fillers, rarely misses the chance to reprint notably daring sex lore from outside authorities. In 1957, for example, it condensed part of a book (A Woman Doctor Looks at Love and Life) that explicitly catalogued coital climaxes and advised disconsolate bedfellows that satisfaction "can take five years to perfect...
Professors from Columbia University are raising funds to distribute and reprint a letter published earlier this month by 200 Boston area professors urging President Kennedy to scrap plans for fallout shelters...
Stories with Guts. Most school boards, even if they wanted McGuffey's Readers, would have supposed them out of print; the Twin Lakes men discovered that American Book Co. began to reprint them in the '20s to the order of Henry Ford, who regarded them as admirable curios -with their antiquated typography and illustrations-to send to his friends. Beula & Co. found the old readers to be just the ticket: McGuffey gives a firm phonetic grounding and follows up with stories that bug a child's eyes out. Kids can read of a Cruel Boy who pulled...
Balanced Diet. C.D. maintains its balance by limiting undisguisedly religious material to 15% of editorial content-and many of the religious articles themselves take a general-interest approach, e.g., "Those TV Priests," a reprint from Today magazine concluding that on television, priests apparently come in only two styles: "Father" Bing Crosby and "Father" Barry Fitzgerald...
...painter dies of a heart attack (induced, say the neighbors, by too much Cecilia), it is Dino's turn. What follows is the old sexual war that Moravia has refought too many times. In scenes so explicit as to make publishers of cheap paperbacks slaver for the reprint rights, Dino dies a thousand deaths on his cross of flesh. Characteristically, Moravia says that all this is simply a way to show that Dino is trying to achieve "reality"' by rediscovering the human touch. But when Cecilia takes on another lover, Dino is stuck in his Moravian hell indeed...