Word: lila
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...DIED. Lila Acheson Wallace, 94, ebullient, strong-minded co-founder and -owner of Reader's Digest, with her late husband DeWitt Wallace, and one of America's greatest philanthropists; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. The couple met in 1920 when he was struggling to start his new venture, and she began married life stuffing solicitation envelopes in a Greenwich Village basement. As the Digest quickly prospered, she kept her editorial influence largely indirect. But it was she who took the lead in the childless Wallaces' vast (more than $60 million over 30 years) charitable efforts. Personally overseeing many...
...from the kitchen of her walk-up apartment in Brooklyn. When she brays, "We'll be right back," the actual show also breaks for a commercial. But the spice of the device is soon overwhelmed by Mama's overcooked material. The failure is not the fault of Lila Kaye, late of the Royal Shakespeare Company (she was Mrs. Squeers and Mrs. Crummies in Nich olas Nickleby). Kaye plays Mama with manic élan, but she is giving flesh - kilos of it - to an ethnic stereotype that should have gone out with the organ grinder and his monkey...
That is especially true because Lila, the once sweet sister of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh in the original), has been nursing a need for vengeance all this time...
Played again by Vera Miles, Lila has be come positively shrewish on the subject of society's permissiveness regarding the criminally insane. She scuttles busily about making things go bump in the night, hoping to loosen Norman's new and tentative grip on his sanity and send him back to the asylum...
Though he continued to keep in touch with the magazine, whose headquarters is a few miles from his estate in Mount Kisco, N.Y., he gave up editorial control in 1965 when he turned 75. He and Lila, who had no children, began giving away many of their uncondensed millions even before that. Macalester, for instance, received more than $10 million; Boscobel, a historic, early 19th century house on the Hudson, another $10 million; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art $5 million 'The dead," he said, "carry with them to he grave in their clutched hands only that which they...