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...DIED. DeWitt Wallace, 91, founder and longtime editor of Reader's Digest, the most successful monthly in the world; of pneumonia; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. (see PRESS...
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There is no story that cannot be condensed, said DeWitt Wallace, and he spent a lifetime proving it. When he died of pneumonia last week, at the age of 91. Reader's Digest, the magazine he founded in 1922, was the most successful monthly in the world, published in 16 languages with a global circulation of more than 30 million and an estimated readership of 100 million. For him, shorter really was better, and when he was asked what he wanted as an epitaph, he said, briefly: "The final condensation...
Consider the case of the Rev. DeWitt Hill, who preaches a puritanical life-style in his pentecostal church in Little Rock, Ark. A woman in his church was married to a Baptist who, says Hill, "liked to go nightclubbing and go to the dog races." When his wife divorced him, he sued the Rev. Hill for $1 million, on grounds of "alienation of affections through teaching of the Bible," also claiming that he does not go to nightclubs or bet on dog races. It took the jury only five minutes to decide in Hill's favor last year...
...Those figures speak for themselves," DeWitt C. Jones IV '79, a MURAG member, said yesterday. The bank spokesman refused to comment on the figures...