March 30, 1981 (, yau February 25), the death of the "Reader's Digest" magazine founded DeWitt Wallace. March 30, 2011

1981, (lsjt.net) the modern American publishers DeWitt Wallace in New York Mount Kisco died at the age of 91 years old.
1889 11 12, Wallace was born in Sao Paulo. Youth in Brazil as a book salesman that brewing founder of an Expo newspapers, journal articles and digests. Wallace editing have a hobby, his favorite magazine articles compiled a series of index. This is loving the germination of the idea of ​​the founder of this magazine. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, Wallace joined the Army, the First World War, he had served in Europe. He other soldiers in the hospital and recuperate request him as they write and read the letter. He found that people need such a magazine, neither flowery language, nor esoteric point of view. After retiring, he once envisioned samples sent to several publishing companies, have been rejected. In the 1920s, he traveled to New York, determined to start their own journals. (TodayinHistory.cn)
1922, Wallace bent down into the basement of an illegal hotel following a magazine published in Abstract, a small printing presses. His publication called "Reader's Digest". List selected this portable pocket-sized journals or downsizing excellent article published by various newspapers, and keep the original style and literary talent, this is an innovation. Because of its wide range, both informative and interesting, win reader's welcome. Circulation increased rapidly from the first issue of 1500 to 200,000 in 1929. The English version of the 1938 increase. after
60 years, Wallace's hands hold a publishing empire, his magazine has been all over the world, with 15 languages ​​and published in 39 editions, issued in 163 countries and regions in the world, with a total circulation of 30 million copies, become the world's largest-circulation journals. The continuous development of
"Reader's Digest" Wallace's credit, a credit to his wife, Lila Bell Acheson. Valor soil before marriage in social service work in a very active and helped established the Young Women's Christian Association in the East Coast. Her attitude became Digest attitude, an attitude of positive thinking.
from Wallace couples from founding personally any journal issuer until 1973. Mr. Wallace and his wife because of their charitable work was a Medal of Freedom in 1972.