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Residents of the outside world are inclined to look upon the citizens of New York's Westchester County as the mink, martini & money set, with hardly a petty thief in a trainload. Last week George A. Williams, the New York Central Railroad's station agent at Chappaqua in northern Westchester, shattered that illusion. Agent Williams had made a painful discovery: he was losing as much as $12 a week from the "honor system" cash box on his newspaper stand. Williams bored a hole in the ceiling above the newsstand, poked the lens of a camera through, and took...
...resident of Chappaqua, Miller started on the assignment by phoning Neighbor Wallace. It was then he learned that the editor customarily answers his own phone, a fact which was duly recorded in the story. Although he had never before met Wallace, Miller has been brushing against Digest people since his cub-reporter days on the Cleveland Press, when he met their researchers burrowing among the Cleveland Public Library's stacks. When Miller joined me in the Office of War Information in 1943, he first worked for Adrian Berwick, now an editor of the Digest overseas editions. Later Miller kept...
...four years after Wallace had started to print original articles, Digest circulation shot from 449,666 to 2,469,527, a fantastic climb in a depression. By 1939, the Digest had outgrown all the vacant offices in Pleasantville. Wallace built a $1,500,000 red brick Georgian headquarters near Chappaqua, a few miles north of Pleasantville. But he kept the old mail address; Pleasantville sounded more like the Digest's right address...
...tentative issue. But a day or two before the deadline, Wallace may toss out a third of it and put in something else. He makes the final decisions, when he is at Chappaqua. But he is often away: he and Lila may pick up suddenly and go off on a three months' trip to Honolulu or Pago Pago, and no one will hear from him until he walks back into the office...
...senior editors: "Several of us don't hesitate to argue with him." Managing Editor Dashiell helped organize a chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action, which the Digest has attacked as the advance-guard of Communism. An unpretentious man, Wallace not only answers his own office phone (Chappaqua 1-0400), but may chat with a subscriber complaining that he missed an issue...