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...suppressed as the part of a programme. All the subsidiary characters are caricatures of English upper class types: there is the inevitable newspaper magnate, a very unreal person despite his peerage and suggested kinship to Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook. Because the characters do not convince the reader of their realty, the play fails to come to life, and one's memory of it is likely to be confined to certain passages good for declaiming at verse-speaking contests...
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...
...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...
Lowell House waitresses were forced to over work yesterday noon, and the whole affair was due to the laxity of the proof-reader who goes over the daily House menus...
...geometry paper graded 33 by a College Board reader was referred to the committee on hopeless failures which rated it 67. College Board examiners are not alone in their capriciousness. A history paper scored 60 by University of Toronto examiners, minus 10 more points for misspelling, was copied over without the misspellings, scored 70 on the rereading. In a one-year course at Cornell, the same students got widely different marks from the two instructors who taught in successive semesters. In an experiment at the University of Wisconsin the same teachers gave different marks when they regraded their own papers...