Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state that "boiled down, his case for air power got the Reader's Digest into boiling water with the Navy." Your implication . . . that I have in some manner embarrassed the Digest ... is a false implication...
...Author Huie is entirely right about his book; TIME was dead wrong. 2) In a letter to the Reader's Digest, Admiral Denfeld's office took exception to 26 points (some of them labeled "major misstatements") in Huie's first Digest article. 3) Collier's found "no basis" for six statements in Huie's football article. It printed an apology: "A serious injustice [to] the University of Alabama ... we sincerely regret its publication." 4) Both the FBI and Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, said they were satisfied with...
That was how the New York Sun described the Black Tom explosion of July 30, 1916. The Literary Digest scoffed at reports that German saboteurs had blown up the Black Tom pier to prevent munitions shipments to the Allies; it said that such rumors "died of sheer inanition almost as soon as born...
...added that the FBI data--supposedly confidential--had originally been given by a member of Congress to a Reader's Digest staff writer "who evidently sold it to the Post and papers in other cities...
Farsighted newsreelers think that one hope for their survival in theaters lies along a trail blazed by Paramount, toward an interpretive digest of the news in a documentary style popularized by the MARCH OF TIME. In the long run, they hope to compete in spot news through big-screen theater television. Theater TV may also become a major movie sideline. Last week 20th Century-Fox was reported nurturing a plan to set up big TV screens in 15 or 20 of its West Coast theaters by year's end. Through closed circuits, Fox would feed topnotch "live" shows...