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Conciseness, factual accuracy, and lasting interest are among the requisites for all articles submitted. The maximum length for each contribution is 3500 words. Full details of the competition, which closes on May 1, will be given in the March issue of the Reader's Digest, or will be mailed upon application to the editors in Pleasant-ville, New York...
Applying to authors Major Bowes' principle of discovering latent talent, Reader's Digest magazine has announced a $5000 prize contest for non-fiction articles by persons who have never before contributed to national periodicals...
...announced purpose of the competition is the encouragement of new talent, the only restriction is that no one is eligible who has previously written for national magazines. Five prizes of $1000 each will be awarded to the authors of the five articles "judged most interesting by Reader's Digest Standards...
...paid for all articles considered acceptable for publication. "An illuminating human experience occurring to anyone in a position to observe human nature: the desire to recognize a fine accomplishment; all of these and more, if the magic touch is added, can be translate into articles of winning quality," the Digest announcement states, explaining the contest...
...Literary Digest last week published a supplement to its main poll on approval of the New Deal (TIME, Jan. 6), showing that of 21,600 clergymen, 70% were opposed to it. This result tended to confirm the verdict of many an oldtime politician that President Roosevelt, because he backed Repeal, tolerated two divorces in his family, goes fishing on Sunday and rarely mentions God in public, will lose considerable support from the Church next autumn...