Word: lila
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reader's Digest has always been DeWitt and Lila Wallace's only baby-and in 42 years, the Digest has grown into the biggest monthly magazine in the world, with 25 million circulation. For all of those 42 years, the Wallaces maintained total, if benevolent control over the entire operation. And although for the past few years nearly everyone in the Digest's red brick colonial building in Chappaqua, N.Y., 30 miles north of Manhattan, knew that Wally and Lila had picked their successor, everyone also wondered whether the succes sion would ever take place...
Speak of the Devil and he appears. First night in Crete, the old man turns into an old goat and goes snorting after a dilapidated soubrette of 60 (Lila Kedrova), who followed the British fleet to Crete in her flaming youth and made enough money to retire by entertaining admirals on the bridge. Next day the old man urges his young friend to hold similar converse with the village widow (Irene Papas). The young man is afraid to try. "It would only make trouble," he murmurs. "Trouble!" the old man hoots at him. "Life is trouble. Only dead...
...Lila Mauldin, 26, Albuquerque housewife and mother of three, was always short of breath; she got tired in no time. Diagnosis of her trouble was easy enough, and last spring she went to Denver's National Jewish Hospital for an operation to correct mitral stenosis -a narrowing of the valve inside her heart, between its upper and lower left chambers. Without such an operation, Mrs. Mauldin was not likely to live long. But the N.J.H. surgeons found they could not operate because Patient Mauldin would need transfusions during surgery, and she had rare, unmatchable blood: type A (common...
...Paul's Macalester College (1,600 students) got another sharp boost from its Most Unforgettable Character, Reader's Digest Founder-Publisher DeWitt Wallace, 73, who grew up on the campus while his Presbyterian father was president. In recent years Alumnus Wallace and his wife Lila have given Macalester $15 million; last week, as the college announced a ten-year drive for $32 million, the Wallaces offered to match dollars each year that the college raises $750,000, up to a total of $10 million over the ten years...
Press: Walter Lippmann, Roy Howard, James Reston, DeWitt and Lila Bell Wallace, Samuel I. Newhouse, John Cowles, Al Capp, Hedda Hopper, George Gallup...