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Your article on the DeWitt Wallaces is one of the best that I have ever read. Every reader of the Reader's Digest must have wondered about the people and the organization that do it. Then you come along and lift the curtain in a very perfect sort...
...DeWitt Wallace, founder and editor of the Reader's Digest, is such an editor. When TIME Writer Bill Miller first approached him on the subject of a cover story, Wallace was reluctant, said he believed editors should be kept in the background. "Ellery Sedgwick edited the Atlantic for 30 years without putting his name on the masthead," he said. Answered Miller: "I suppose that's why the Digest reprinted TIME'S cover on Arthur Hays Sulzberger and the New York Times." Wallace chuckled, asked Miller unbelievingly, "Do you really think that the Digest will make a good...
...world circulation standards, DeWitt Wallace, the Digest's founder, owner and boss, is the most successful editor in history. Wallace and his wife, Lila Bell Wallace, the Digest's co-editor, between them seem to have discovered a magic formula. What...
Married. Jean Dalrymple, 41, Broadway pressagent turned producer (Sartre's Red Gloves); and Colonel Philip DeWitt Ginder, 46, commander of the U.S. 6th Regiment in Berlin, whom she met at a cocktail party on a visit there two months ago; both for the second time (her first husband was Ward Morehouse, Manhattan drama columnist); in Danbury, Conn. Matron of honor: Neighbor Gladys Swarthout...
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