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...great element of strength in the Russian system--the patriotic faith and believing optimism of the whole nation. But his bourgeois heritage and his inborn conservatism clearly rebel against the artificiality of the entire Soviet state. Synthetic Moscow with its half-built hotels and unfinished factories does not digest well in the orderly capitalistic stomach...
...started a moral storm. The groundswell first surged effectively 13 months ago, when 2,500 women and men attended a meeting of the American Social Hygiene Association in Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 20. 1936). It frothed in July when Dr. Parran published an article on syphilis in Reader's Digest and Survey Graphic. Almost 2,000,000 reprints have been sold...
Appointed House Parliamentarian by his father, the late Speaker Charles Frederick Crisp, and by the late Speaker Champ Clark, he wrote the standard Manual & Digest of the Rules of the House of Representatives...
Because Reader's Digest, originator and most successful exponent of the cut-and reprint idea, had already condensed a number of books with beneficial effects on their sales (TIME, Nov. 2), most publishers approached by Mr. Black were friendly. Book Digest's royalties to publishers are to increase as its circulation climbs. The magazine will attempt no fiction condensations, stick to non-fiction products from a long list of publishers including Doubleday, Doran & Co., Harper & Brothers, Alfred...
Selector for Book Digest is Donald Leonard Gordon, long a consulting expert to the book trade. Mr. Black's book career began in 1923 when he was salesman for a company publishing a one-volume Shakespeare. Launching out for himself on a $500 stake, Bookseller Black became Publisher Black with a one-volume Shakespeare of his own. Since then, Publisher Black has issued over 70 "classics," spent upwards of $1,000,000 advertising them...