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Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Robert Cummings in Lila, My Love...
...project his blessing and let TIME have access to a wealth of confidential information about the Digest. We were able to publish approximate figures on their gross earnings and net profit. Digest offices overseas described their operations in detail. In interviews which lasted for hours, Wallace and his wife, Lila Bell, searched their memories for incidents and anecdotes of the Digest's early years. Digest Business Manager Albert L. Cole, during a visit to our office, saw a copy of the original sample issue of the Digest, which Wallace had given us. He had never seen it before. Wallace...
...Lila also suggested the four green, winged horses which adorn the Digest building's 32-ft. white cupola and have since become the Digest emblem. "It was a happy thought," says Lila, "because according to the myth, when Pegasus stamps his little feet, writers get their inspiration...
...year Al Cole got a salary of $99,500, two years later got $84,500. Wallace has paid himself a salary of $99,500 in some years, in other years didn't get enough to be listed on the Treasury's $75,000-plus list (Lila never has drawn enough to get listed). All the Digest's 1,060 regular employees are covered by a liberal pension plan, and by life-insurance policies...
...wealth. "The dead," Wallace is fond of saying, "carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away." His father lived to be 90, and at 62, Wallace is going strong. But in preparation for the day their turn comes, he and Lila are gradually turning over their stock to a charitable