UnDigested
The small, smart New Yorker (arc. 205,000) last week cast a stone at the famed, fabulously successful Reader's Digest (domestic circ. 8,000,000). The missile at once set up widening ripples in the U.S. publishing pond. The New Yorker's irascible, bristle-topped Editor Harold W. Ross (and his co-editors) sent a bristling letter to contributors, told them that the New Yorker would no longer allow the Digest to reprint any New Yorker material. Reasons:
"The Digest started out as a reprint magazine, but grew into something quite different. Nowadays a large proportion of its contents...
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