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Known for. Co founding Reader's Digest with her husband. Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. Spouse. Dewitt Wallace. . ( m. 1921) . 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.
Based in. Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. Website. rd .com. ISSN. 0034-0375. Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in midtown Manhattan. The magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Bell Wallace.
In 1967 PCH ran its first sweepstakes as a way to increase subscription sales, based on the sweepstakes held by Reader's Digest. The first prizes ranged from $1 to $10 and entrants had a 1 in 10 chance of winning. After the sweepstakes increased response rates to mailings, prizes of $5,000 and eventually $250,000 were offered. PCH began ...
A Century of Laughter. 100 Years Laughing Matters 1000x667 En. For 100 years, Reader’s Digest has proudly re-printed the funniest and corniest gags, anecdotes, and pithy one-liners in the pages ...
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Trusted Media Brands, Inc. ( TMBI ), formerly known as the Reader's Digest Association, Inc. ( RDA ), is an American multi-platform media and publishing company which is co-headquartered in New York City and in White Plains, New York. [1] [2] [3] The company was founded by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace, husband and wife, in New York City ...
World's Best Reading is a series of classic books published by Reader's Digest beginning in 1982. The series is distributed as a mail order membership club. In addition some individual volumes are available for sale directly through the Reader's Digest website. The series began with single annual volumes in 1982 and 1983, then expanded to bi ...
Co-founder of Reader's Digest. Spouse. Lila Bell Wallace. Parent (s) James Wallace and Janet Wallace. William Roy DeWitt Wallace; ( / dəˈwɪt / 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 ...