Word: dewitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson readers show cosmopolitan urban characteristics in placing the New Yorker in number one slot as the most popular magazine on the stands, with Life and Time also selling out every week. Newsweek and the various digests are poor sellers; among the coolly received latter class, however, DeWitt Wallace's Pleasantville, New York, publication ranks first...
...Dewitt C. Poole, visiting lecturer in government, is having all kinds of difficulties in his Gov 18 lectures this week, all because someone spirited away two maps from the classroom, Harvard 6. "These other maps are too small, too inaccurate," he claims, ruminating over the good old days when he had a six foot large map entitled "The World Physical Environs" to illustrate his lectures, and another dubbed "Kolonial Besitzungen des siebzehn und achtzehn Jahrhundert...
...bosses and Mrs. Roosevelt got together in a traditionally smoke-heavy private dining room of Albany's Hotel DeWitt Clinton the night before the convention. To satisfy the A.L.P. and P.A.C. they picked slender, sharp-faced Henry Epstein, onetime State Solicitor General and a member of P.A.C.'s national executive committee, for a 14-year State Court of Appeals judgeship. To add a bit of luster to the slate, they drafted Albany's 36-year-old Mayor Erastus Corning II, an ex-G.I. and Yaleman, for Lieutenant Governor...
This week the Army & Navy announced that they had set up a joint scientific research committee to coordinate their research. Its chairman: Vannevar Bush. Other members are Generals Jacob Devers and Carl Spaatz, Assistant Navy Secretary W. John Kenny, Admiral DeWitt Ramsey...
...pocket-sized field was more crowded than ever, with digests and pocket books fighting for space on the stands. DeWitt Wallace's money-minting Reader's Digest, which climbed to a guesstimated 8,000,000 U.S. circulation, came out of the war in the pink of health. It could easily afford a drop in the G.I. trade. But many an imitator could not; they worried over heavy returns...