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Traveling on business last summer, Publisher Walter J. Black was struck by the number of people he saw reading small monthly magazines of the Reader's Digest type. Mulling over this trend, Mr. Black conceived the notion of a "digest" monthly to give readers boiled-down versions of full-length books. This week the U. S. saw the result-a 25? Book Digest, of which 75,000 copies were distributed to the stands of American News Co. First issue of Book Digest had condensations of ten recent books, fast-sellers like John Gunther's Inside Europe, Herbert Asbury...
Senator Wheeler had trouble getting at the Stock Exchange's private files until last week when that institution suddenly swamped him with so much material that he had to adjourn for a week to digest it. Before adjournment, however, he unearthed a memorandum to the Exchange's listing committee from John Minor Botts Hoxsey. its listing expert. Last week the Stock Exchange honored Mr. Hoxsey by making him a full-fledged member of the listing committee, invited him to sit in on meetings of the governing committee. It appeared from his writings, however, that the Exchange could have...
...taken its place as the first one set up in the Colonies. This apparently spent most of its time printing translations of the Bible in the first of which were made in 1661 by John Eliot in the Indians dislects, and sent out where the Indians could digest them in their accustomed surroundings. It was necessary to conform to the Charter of 1650, which dedicated the College "to the education of the English and Indian Youth...
Phooey, Scallions, and Fishcakes on your most lousy choice of a "person-of-the-year." The Digest poll and Mrs. Simpson leave the same taste in my mouth. To your editors (note the votes cast) a big and mighty Bronx cheer...
...When you are frightened," wrote doggy Albert Payson Terhune in Reader's Digest last summer (TIME, Aug. 17), "nature pumps an undue amount of adrenalin through your system. This throws off an odor . . . which human nostrils fail to detect. Dogs, however, hate it. It rouses some of them to rage; in others it inspires only contempt. Many an otherwise inoffensive dog will attack when that odor reaches...