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...bumper year of magazine management flips & flops, the publishing world has come to expect anything. In June when the Albert Shaws, father and son, paid Robert J. Cuddihy, Wilfred John Funk and others some $200,000 for the 47-year-old Literary Digest, merged it with the venerable Review oj Reviews as The Digest, it could be supposed that the Literary Digest was permanently in the journalistic limbo. Last week, however, it emerged from temporary eclipse with a new set of owners who will again call it Literary Digest...
...reasonable was it also that such sales should arouse the envy of magazine publishers. In the past fortnight two veteran publishers from opposite poles invaded the psychoanalytical & adult education field. One was the defunct Whiz-Bang's Publisher Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, the other the defunct Literary Digest's Wilfred John Funk...
Publisher Funk's new monthly venture appeared last week, a 128-page 25? "Popular Guide to Desirable Living," Your Life-in format similar to Reader's Digest, whose printers (Rumford Press) also produce Your Life. To launch the new monthly, Mr. Funk formed Kingsway Press Inc., Scarsdale, N. Y., with part of the reported $200.000 proceeds from the sale of Literary Digest, made Brother-in-Law Bert C. Miller president. Vice president is Douglas E. Lurton. onetime supervising editor for Fawcett Publications, and managing editor of Literary Digest during its last year. Edited by Douglas Lurton, Your Life...
...each in its first public financing to the joy of Hartley Rogers & Co. But Continental Can is unusually strong and Lane-Wells enjoys unusual earnings. Other companies, less well fattened, have an understandable reluctance to enter the market at present. Last week, according to Investment Dealers' Digest, no less than 135 new capital issues were being held up by the underwriters in hopes of better market conditions. Total backwater: at least...
Decay, the cause of most dental agony, has been climinated with the perfection of a new test-and-diagnosis protedure by Northwestern University scientists working under Dental Dean A. D. Black. Follow this COLLEGIATE DIGEST Picture Story to learn the steps of the new pain-climinating process...