Word: dewitt
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...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Lawrence Mondi/New York and John Prime/Shreveport
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Marilyn Alva/ St. Lucia and Bernard Diederich/ Santo Domingo
DIED. Lila Acheson Wallace, 94, ebullient, strong-minded co-founder and -owner of Reader's Digest, with her late husband DeWitt Wallace, and one of America's greatest philanthropists; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. The couple met in 1920 when he was struggling to start his new venture, and she began married life stuffing solicitation envelopes in a Greenwich Village basement. As the Digest quickly prospered, she kept her editorial influence largely indirect. But it was she who took the lead in the childless Wallaces' vast (more than $60 million over 30 years) charitable efforts. Personally overseeing many...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Adam Cohen/Boston
...Phillip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York and Michael Moritz/San Francisco