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...nearly two years the small (circ. 230,000) city -slicker New Yorker and the mighty, midget-sized Reader's Digest (circ. 11,000,000) have been on the outs. In a frigidly phrased communiqué to his contributors in February 1944, wire-haired Harold W. Ross, terrier-tempered editor of the New Yorker, served notice that his magazine was through being Digested...
...thing that had made irritable Editor Ross blow his top was the discovery that the Digest was no longer a digest, that many of its articles were home-grown in its own commodious nursery at Pleasantville, N.Y. and "planted" in other publications- for eventual transplanting back to the Digest. Said Ross: "This gives us the creeps...
Last week the New Yorker was deep in a lengthy, serial exploration of this creepy process. A composite "profile" of the Digest and tall, lean DeWitt Wallace, its editor and co-owner, had already run to three dart-throwing installments and 14,000 words. How much more was to come was an office secret, but John Bainbridge, the 32-year-old author, said there was only a thin chance that it would break the six-installment record devoted to another Ross anathema, Walter Winchell...
...DeWitt Wallace was born Nov. 12, 1889. (Digest editors, who had wondered how old the boss was, were glad to have that settled...
...publisher of the anti-nicotine Digest "is a backslider who gets away with a couple of packs...