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Days at the Digest.(Devine)
IN AN IMPROBABLY long and implausibly varied career in journalism, I suppose I count my coverage of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow as the high point. Tchaikovsky turned my despatches into a long-running musical and Tolstoy borrowed unscrupulously.
But comparably exotic and adventurous in some respects was the decade I spent with Reader's Digest, from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, first as editor in-chief of the Australian and New Zealand editions and then as one of the four issue editors of the US edition (who took turns at producing issues in an effort to avoid the excessively formulaic). Recollection of that time has come to mind with recent news that the ...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Unger, Henry September 16, 1999 700+ words
...as well." The agreement in New Zealand became final after government...they would not intervene. "New Zealand is not a surprise because Coke...editor and publisher of Beverage Digest. "However, New Zealand is a soft-drink market with...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Steve Bale January 30, 1995 700+ words
...March in Bristol. The New Zealand proposition is unlikely...many more players if New Zealand rugby union cannot offer...amateur. In any case, New Zealand are already out of time...21 teams, Sporting Digest, page 28 More rugby...
Source: HighBeam Research, Days at the Digest.(Devine)