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February 5, 2021

TODAY: In 1922, the first issue of Reader’s Digest is published. Suspecting early 20th-century Americans were overloaded with information, DeWitt Wallace founded the monthly publication to aggregate information; Wallace’s wife, Lila, thought the magazine would be popular among housewives “and newly liberated working girls.”
TODAY: In 1922, the first issue of Reader’s Digest is published. Suspecting early 20th-century Americans were overloaded with information, DeWitt Wallace founded the monthly publication to aggregate information; Wallace’s wife, Lila, thought the magazine would be popular among housewives “and newly liberated working girls.” It was.
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