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...hospitalized behind the lines after the Argonne offensive with a hole in his neck and a piece of shrapnel in his lung, Sergeant DeWitt Wallace of the 35th U. S.. Infantry perfected his plans for a magazine of condensed reprints culled from all the publications on the market. The tremendous success of this notion of a wounded soldier in 1918 was made manifest this week by a unique and thoroughgoing account of Reader's Digest published in FORTUNE...
Swift will get $7,324,470, Swift stock-holders $1,567,000 for their holdings in yards which do 20% of U. S. stockyard business. Mainsprings of new United Stockyards Corp. are Banker John DeWitt and longtime Swift Executive Wesley K. Wright. Mr. Wright will soon move from Swift's plant on the South Side, from which he has managed Swift stockyards for the past 14 years, to Chicago's Board of Trade Building as president of United...
...complete set of blood vessels. The arteries were stained red. the veins blue. Since this was the only figure of its kind in the world and this was its first public appearance anywhere, appropriate ceremonies were held and an informal physiology lesson was radiocast. Present were Dr. Dean Dewitt Lewis, surgeon-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews (dinosaur eggs) and Samuel Higby Camp, surgical bandage manufacturer of Jackson, Mich...
Rushing to visit his wife & newborn son at the hospital, South Carolina's Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston was knocked unconscious when his car struck the machine of Mrs. Marie Loop of Eldred, Pa., looped over three times on the road...
...claims to have enough backing to publish four issues a year for three years, is a large, shaggy, moody 39-year-old. Born in Union City, N. J., but taken to Lorraine, he learned French and German first, was 16 before he mastered English in Manhattan's DeWitt Clinton High School. Last December he helped get his brother Emile, French nurseryman, out of a Nazi jail after Emile had insulted Adolf Hitler on French soil, been yanked across the border by a German tobacconist and nabbed by frontier police. Another Jolas brother is Jacques, until last year dean...