Reader's Digest fans were suckers for sweepstakes, and its mailings scored 20% response rates.
That changed in 1952, when Reader's Digest published "Cancer by the Carton, " an article detailing the dangers of smoking.
Launching of KASAYSAYAN: THE STORY OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, by the Asia Publishing Co. (Reader's Digest and A-Z Direct Marketing).
The new James Bond movie is among the films covered in this week's digest of what the critics are saying.
While there were 5, 000 card shops in the early '90s, according to Sports Collector's Digest, there are only 500 now.
Reader's Digest, RG Steel, Dewey, Tribune and their bankruptcy lawyers either declined to comment or didn't respond to requests for comment.
WSJ: Transparency Is the Rule in Chapter 11��Except for CEOs
Reader's Digest Association Chairman Thomas Ryder brought in Klingel and gave him a blank check to clean up the circulation mess.
Reader's Digest presented itself as a guardian of American morality and values.
Shares in Reader's Digest Association , which have almost halved this year, revived a tad after the chairman and chief executive, James Schadt, quit.
It lost more than circulation revenue, too, since Reader's Digest exists so that the company can mine its database to cross-sell books, videos and CDs.
For three decades the Reader's Digest Association was able to keep its flagship magazine's more than 15 million subscribers by sending out 40 million subscribe-and-win sweepstakes solicitations a year.
For the first time in Reader's Digest history, subscription cards for the venerable magazine are fluttering like confetti from more than 150 million telephone books, small-town newspapers and popular catalogs.
Corcoran, ranked Timer of the Year in 2001 by Timer's Digest, agrees that the market will soon test its September lows but thinks these dips should be used as buying opportunities.
We encourage Sony Ericsson fans and non-fans alike to go check out the real deal, but in the meanwhile, we've put together a Reader's Digest peek here at some of the highlights.
Exactly what the relationship was between Reader's Digest and state foreign policy is unclear, but its role in encouraging American readers to think about and actively engage in world affairs is beyond doubt.
When Reader's Digest first ventured into bankruptcy in the summer of 2009, the multimillion-dollar payouts to top executives that showed up in court filings sparked outrage from employees facing layoffs and retirees staring down benefit cuts.
WSJ: Transparency Is the Rule in Chapter 11��Except for CEOs
According to the October 1994 Reader's Digest, Mr. Mirzayanov is personally aware of Russia's development of a class of binary chemical weapons (formed by combining two relatively safe chemicals to produce a toxic agent) nicknamed "Novichok" (Newcomer).
Perhaps the decline of Reader's Digest's fortunes was inevitable with the longer-term social and political influences of 60s counterculture, the failure of general interest magazines, the rise of global media targeted at specific niches and the advent of the internet.
Closer to Secher, fellow Marine Captain Erik Orient - who attended the announcement about the new scholarship - mused on the subject in Wharton's Leadership Digest journal.
For those who aren't familiar with the app, it's designed to digest travel information via email.
Their numbers and their performances are so out of kilter with what the game is used to that they are the soccer equivalent of Wilt Chamberlain and Wayne Gretzky players whose domination of the sport is so thorough that it's difficult to digest.
Margaret Russell, Architectural Digest's editor in chief, recommended Mr. Filicia.
WSJ: Collaboration: Delta Brings Back Outdoor Observation Decks
This persistence at the bottom of the rankings is well illustrated by the adviser on the Hulbert Financial Digest's monitored list who, one year ago, was at the very bottom for trailing 10-year performance: Charlie Buck's Situational Strategies.
He's also striking deals to get Digest pieces turned into TV segments for 48 Hours, America's Most Wanted and other shows.
The UK's big energy suppliers are trying to digest the impenetrable jargon that cloaks the government's announcement about the contents of its forthcoming Energy Bill.
BBC: Energy Bill: Will companies now build new power plants?
As we said, there's plenty more juicy tidbits to digest over at Esato -- but even with what we've presented here, it's safe to say Sony Ericsson's shaping up for a killer '07.
Here is a snapshot of Murphy's overall performance, according to the Hulbert Financial Digest: The stock picks found in Murphy's Technology Investing newsletter are down 37.1% for the first half of 2002, and the letter's overall record is an average annual return of -2.4% since Dec. 31, 1998.
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