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In the 1920s DeWitt Wallace spent countless hours in this room, reading and condensing articles from the Library's collection. In 1983, the room's restoration was made possible by a gift from the Wallace Fund, established by DeWitt Wallace. During World War I, Wallace enlisted in the U.S. Army and was wounded.
George Jack Makari is a psychiatrist and historian. He serves as director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts, which encompasses the Oskar Diethelm Library [1] at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he is also a Professor of Psychiatry. [2]
In 1920, Dewitt Wallace married Lila Bell Wallace in Pleasantville, New York. Shortly thereafter, the two would launch Reader's Digest in the basement below a Greenwich Village speakeasy . [ 3 ] The idea for Reader's Digest was to gather a sampling of favorite articles on many subjects from various monthly magazines, sometimes condensing and ...
The existing 29,700-square-foot Wallace Library is over 50 years old. The new youth library wing adds 25,000 square feet, bringing the new facility to 55,430 square feet.
The DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, was formerly known as The History of Psychiatry Section. Founded in 1958 by Dr. Eric T. Carlson, the institute is devoted to the study of the history of the mind-sciences and the preservation of resources on the history of ...
The Wallace Periodical Room in room 108 has been named for Reader's Digest founder DeWitt Wallace since 1983. [118] [242] It consists of current issues from 200 periodicals and 22 newspapers. [242] The current design of the room dates from a renovation in the 1980s. [243]
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum (DWDAM), is a museum dedicated to British and American fine and decorative arts from 1670-1840, located in Williamsburg, Virginia. Situated just outside the historic boundary of Colonial Williamsburg , DWDAM was founded with an initial 1982 [ 2 ] donation by DeWitt Wallace (1889–1981) and his wife ...
Lila Bell Wallace (December 25, 1889 – May 8, 1984) was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist. She co-founded Reader's Digest with her husband Dewitt Wallace , publishing the first issue in 1922.