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Readers Digest August 1955 Ira Wolfert Jacqueline Cochran Pilots James Michener
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Publication Year: |
1955 |
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Reader's Digest |
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English |
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Magazine |
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News, General Interest |
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Monthly |
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August |
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Reader's Digest Association |
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TITLE: THE READERS DIGEST
"Articles of Lasting Interest" -- Own a piece of history, fascinating to read -- The Readers Digest captures what life was like at any given time better than any other magazine, because it is the best of all of them! -- Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! *
ISSUE DATE:
August 1955; Vol. 67, No. 400
CONDITION: Size approx 6" X 9", Digest sized magazine. COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)
IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: Sunday Afternoon by Herb Olsen.
My Faith in the Atomic Future by Lewis L. Strauss. [Interesting article, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
The Bosom Business and breast feeding by Goodrich C. Shauffler, MD.
An Unforgettable Character by Hodding Carter. [Interesting article about his father, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
Should Unions have monopoly powers? by W. L. White. [Interesting article, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
Six ways to beat the heat by Ruth and Edward Brecher.
The Rugged Mr John Foster Dulles by Beverly Smith.
The Power of Prayer by Madame Chaing Kai-shek. [Interesting article, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
Madame Lis Hartel of Copenhagen Rode to Triumph over Polio by Edwin Muller. [Interesting article, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
The Great Molasses Flood by Ralph Frye. [Interesting article, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
Lady in a jet -- Jacqueline Cochran -- by Isabella Taves. "America's First Lady of the Air has her feet planted firmly on the ground" [Nice, Fascinating article, original to the Digest, with quotes from her, and from Chuck Yeager!]
The Fiercest animal on Earth -- The Screw -- by Alan Devoe.
Historic Meeting in Indonesia -- The Bandung Conference -- by James A. Michener [Interesting article, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
The Army's shadow plants are ready by Vernon Pizer.
A Bell for Okinawa by Bruce Bliven Jr.
Task force atack on red tape by Blake Clark. [Interesting article, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
Now They're Proud of Peoria by Betty Friedan.
Eight Coutries build a typewriter by J. D. Ratcliff.
Of What Use Is Poetry? By Dame Edith Sitwell.
Drama behind the Crop forecasts by Ira Wolfert. [Interesting article, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
Big Time Hot Rods -- Auto Racing Fever -- by George Kent.
Out Union-Labor Collecians by Lester Velie. [Interesting article, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
You're braver than you think by Margaret Blair Johnstone.
The Orchestra Refused to Die -- The Rebirth of the NBC Orchestra after Toscanini -- by Dan Paonessa.
Japan: Ten Years After.
Woman's finest role by Dr. Emily Hartshorne Mudd.
Sir Isaac Newton -- Explorer of the Universe by Robert Strother.
In the eye of a hurricaine by George H. Grant. [Interesting article, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
Brazilians call this university the Mackenzie -- Mary Annesley Chamberlain and her school -- by Michael Scully.
Champion of plain talk -- Ted Granik -- by Lois Mattox Miller.
The unchanging of the Guards -- Brigade of Guards -- by Richard Collier.
Young man in White -- 17 hours in the life of a surgical intern -- by Quentin Reynolds. [Interesting article, and ORIGINAL to this issue!]
The Grand Turk road in Agra by Vice Adm Leslie C. Stevens.
Microfilm holds the world's records by Don Wharton.
Why Fear Russia? -- David Lawrence's Interview with General Francisco Franco.
Fear Strikes Out -- The Jim Piersall Story with Al Hirshberg.
Time out for Enchantment by Olivia De Havilland.
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