Word: chappaqua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grown into the biggest monthly magazine in the world, with 25 million circulation. For all of those 42 years, the Wallaces maintained total, if benevolent control over the entire operation. And although for the past few years nearly everyone in the Digest's red brick colonial building in Chappaqua, N.Y., 30 miles north of Manhattan, knew that Wally and Lila had picked their successor, everyone also wondered whether the succes sion would ever take place...
...DeWitt and Lila Wallace pay little heed to the Digest's critics. Nor do Digest editors. "If Wally likes it," an editor said some years ago, when the magazine had a mere 12 million subscribers, "12 million other people will like it. It's like that." In Chappaqua, 30 miles from New York, the Digest staff works in a big building that looks like the high school of a particularly prosperous suburb, listens to canned music drifting through the halls, and departs the premises-on orders from Wallace-at 4 o'clock sharp every afternoon, confident that...
Other juniors are Miss Cornelia P. Wilson of 12 Walker St. and Chappaqua, N.Y., and Miss Ruth J. Wyler of Cabot Hall and New York City...
Those arrested today, all juniors, were Jack F. Adler, Jr., 20, of Elkins Park, Pa.; Stephen White, 19, of Paterson, N.J.; and Donald B. Murphy, 19, of Chappaqua...