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William Roy DeWitt Wallace (/ d ə ˈ w ɪ t / də-WIT; November 12, 1889 – March 30, 1981), publishing as DeWitt Wallace, was an American magazine publisher. Wallace co-founded Reader's Digest with his wife Lila Bell Wallace , publishing the first issue in 1922.
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 ...
Reader’s Digest has published close to 40,000 articles, ... the idea for the magazine was born in a French military hospital where founder DeWitt Wallace was recovering from wounds sustained ...
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.
The Wallace Foundation began with the philanthropy of DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace, who together founded the Reader's Digest Association. [4] Drawing on the money they earned from the magazine, which they launched in 1922, the Wallaces contributed to a wide assortment of artistic, cultural and youth-serving causes.
Trusted Media Brands, Inc. (TMBI) was founded as Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (RDA) in New York City in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace, a married couple. They self-published the first edition of Reader's Digest in February 1922.
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (2004) is a history book written by Jack Weatherford, Dewitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. It is a narrative of the rise and influence of Mongol leader Genghis Khan and his successors, and their influence on European civilization. Weatherford provides a different slant ...