12 research outputs found
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
Letter from Donald Day from The Reader's Digest to D. W. Kempner regarding how they do not know what has happened to Kempner's Scrapbook and that they will be continuing to look for it
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
Letter from the Reader's Digest Fund for the Blind asking the recipient to make a donation to a variety of programs they are running to help the blind of America. Also included in the document is the envelope in which the letter was sent
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
Advertising letter from the Reader's Digest Association describing the value of their magazine and requesting the return of an order card
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
Letter from The Reader's Digest to D. W. Kempner requesting to make necessary corrections and return the payment
Storytime: Adventures in Reading for Young People.
A good story book with a pleasing variety of illustration styles. Besides de la Mare's The Hare and the Hedgehog, there are four Aesopic fables. The mouse frees the lion tied to a tree. The ant is carrying an ear of corn when the grasshopper asks him to stop and talk. No killing incites the frog's swelling. CP has this moral: Little by little does the trick.This is a hardbound book (hard cover
Reader's Digest Eurodata 1990 : A consumer survey of 17 European countries
Consumer survey on durables, alcoholics, holidays, cosmetics and foods but also questions about the European Community and other European countries. Living conditions now in comparison with 5 years ago / other countries with a better standard of living / durables in main home of respondent, which of them was acquired in the last 3 years / ( non- ) portable audio equipment / ownership or use of transport ( not car ) / facilities at home / ownership of hand gun, rifle, military gun, musical instrument, cordless or mobile telephone, answering machine, exercise machine / type of still camera and use / private and-or company car, make, characteristics and facilities of car / types of alcohol drunk in the last year and frequency / knowledge of European Community, which countries should be member of EC / heard, read or seen anything of the Single European Market ( SEM ) / SEM, EC is a good-bad thing / statements about EC / for-against unification / confidence in church, media, army, education system, trade unions, advertising industry, police, parliament, civil service, local government, social security, EC, European Parliament / values and beliefs: fight against social injustice, driving after drinking, people smacking their children, marry someone with different background, abortion marriage, smoking in public places, not declaring income / work, woman's position, marriage, satisfaction with own life, religion, communism / activities around the house / which languages does respondent speak fluently, which good enough to read a book, language spoken at home / sports, exercise, food in relation to health, vegetarian / consumption of diet drinks / smoking habits / pets at home / buying books ( also by post ), most expensive book, type of book, nr. of books read / frequency of watching television, nr. of newspapers, magazines / detailed information about holidays / use of numerous toiletry articles and cosmetics/ articles for washing and shaving / use of spectacles, contact lenses / various foodstuffs available at home / use of convenance meals, frozen, chilled, ready to heat, take-away / various cleaning items available at home / payment affairs: cheque book, bank account, credit cards, types of insurances, savings / has main wage-earner and-or respondent professional or occupational qualifications / frequency of respondent's visiting his-her mother / detailed information about home / Reader's Digest magazine subscription / questionnaire version / language of interview ( Switzerland and Belgium only ). Background variables: basic characteristics/ residence/ housing situation/ household characteristics/ occupation/employment/ income/capital assets/ education/ consumption of durables/ readership, mass media, and 'cultural' exposur
