Monday, Mar. 24, 1941

Pocket Bibles

> PocketBOOKS, Inc. put on the newsstands a 489-page abridged Bible "designed for reading enjoyment." Price: 25-c-. First printing: 50,000 copies. Other pocketbooks are mostly fiction and detective stories.

>The Gideons, Christian commercial travelers' organization, undertook to give 5,000,000 U. S. soldiers and sailors Bibles in the next four years--or nearly three times the 1,800,000 Bibles they have put in hotels, prisons, hospitals, schools since 1899.

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