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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...
...AMERICAN DOCTOR'S ODYSSEY-Vic-tor Heiser-Norton...
...semiprofessional pitcher, he likes being where he can get off to a big-league baseball game with Vice President Garner as often as possible. He likes being near the Burning Tree Golf Club where he shoots in the 80's with Democratic Senator Barkley or Republican Sena tor McNary for opponents. He likes being where he can spend an evening watching a wrestling match or sitting in on a game of bridge or poker, which he plays expertly, with considerable bluffing. He likes to be where his hosts of bigwig friends are com ing & going, where cronies like Joseph...
...cold as the Brandenburger Tor, has been, the label frankly attached to many members of the department. Men steeped in learning and recognized as authorities in their field may often, through no tangible fault of their own, leave a group of students completely unmoved. Here in its bluntest form is Harvard's increasingly troublesome dilemma: scholarship and teaching, may they somehow get together! The tutors as well as the instructors have been hit on this score, and some steps must be taken by the German department to recognize this ever more vital aspect of instruction...
...speakers' table, looking like a rather grouchy old professor, sat famed oldtime Director David Wark ("The Old Master") Griffith, who climaxed the affairs at 1 a. m. by awarding the three top prizes. Last week was a big one for Direc tor Griffith, now 56, comparatively poor, and apparently through with the cinema. In Manhattan two audiences invited by the Museum of Modern Art to its series of cinema classics agreed that his Intolerance (which, contrary to legend that it cost $2,500,000, was made for $330,000 in 1916) compared favorably in many ways with modern efforts...