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Because the state constitution forbids them to succeed themselves. South Carolina's Governors usually spend the latter part of their four-year term looking around for a new job. Embarking on just such a search in 1944, Governor Olin Dewitt Johnston, then 47. combined youthful vigor and a slashing attack to unseat Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, a scarred old veteran who broke all existing records for Senate longevity.-This year, at 65 a veteran of more than 17 years in the Senate, Olin Johnston knew how Cotton Ed must have felt. Opposing him in the state's Democratic...
Unforgettable Character. All this is due to the beneficence of Macalester's Most Unforgettable Character, Reader's Digest Founder-Editor DeWitt Wallace. Wallace, 72, was born at tiny Macalester four years after it opened in 1885. His father, Dr. James Wallace, a Presbyterian preacher and a Greek scholar, was president for a dozen years, and saved the place from bankruptcy. Wallace graduated from neither Macalester nor the University of California, where he later put in a couple of years. But he has poured money into Macalester ever since he got rich selling homily grits...
...sources, the Digest is now a notably slicker product than the one founded in 1922, on 4,000 borrowed dollars, by a Minnesota minister's son with an infallible instinct for middlebrow tastes. More than anything else, though, the Reader's Digest is a monument to DeWitt Wallace's reading habits-multiplied 22 million times...
...year it acquired a record club that sold some $20 million worth of platters. From all sources, the Digest grossed a total of $155 million last year. Its profits are not published since the Digest is about as privately held as a company can be; it is controlled by DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila...
...gauging the tastes of their vast audience, DeWitt and Lila Wallace pay little heed to the Digest's critics. Nor do Digest editors. "If Wally likes it," an editor said some years ago, when the magazine had a mere 12 million subscribers, "12 million other people will like it. It's like that." In Chappaqua, 30 miles from New York, the Digest staff works in a big building that looks like the high school of a particularly prosperous suburb, listens to canned music drifting through the halls, and departs the premises-on orders from Wallace...