MILLION- DOLLAR HORSE Loved to have his picture taken; bowed to the crowd; signalled when ready to start. Amazing story of Dan Patch (who wasn’t a thoroughbred and whose first owner “figures he might make a fair delivery horse.'”) and how this pacer became the top money winner of all time. i Also in March Reader’s Digest: GOD’S NEWEST WITNESS, A BIOLOGIST. In his forthcoming book. "Human Destiny,” famed biologist Lecomte du Nouy shows how evolution proves that a God—and the human soul—do exist. Pulton Oursler reviews this truly great book in March Reader’s Digest and tells why everyone, sceptic or believer, will And courage and hope in It. IT’S A MAN’S WORLD (MAYBE!). The woman marries a life-long meal ticket with old-age security programme thrown In. Wears freer clothes; escapes more diseases: lives longer bosses her own job (and generally her husband!). Poppy Cannon wittily exposes just which IS the "weaker sex.” “THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.” A new vitamin controls pernicious anaemia. reStores the thin blood of some expectant mothers, zooms vitality of many anaemic persons. Paul de Krutf tells of the search for folic acid . . . amazing record of this life-saving weapon and conditions against which It is powerless. MARCH OF THE SOLDIER ANTS. Moving In formation, they attack huge snakes, animals, and devour them. Coming to a river, thousands of these ants roll up into a seething b-U a yard thick—and float across. Awesome description of how this jungle scourge raided a native village. THE DECISION TO TSE THE ATOMIC BOMB. Should the U.S. have warned the Japs before dropping it? Drop it mercifully in an open area —or on a city? What city? How many atomic bombs did the U.S. have? Read In March Reader’s Digest former U.S. Secretary of War Stimson’s inside story of events that led to the. U.S. Government’s grave decision to use the In this issue 27 articles of lasting interest, selected from leading magazines and current books, condensed to save your time. GET THE MARCH Reader’s Digest 1/-. All NEWSAGENTS and BOOKSTALLS
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25208, 12 June 1947, Page 5
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