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Founded in 1920 by DeWitt Wallace on a budget of $5,000 while he was recuperating from WWI injuries, the first issue appearing February 1922. After competition arose and it became more difficult to anthologize already-published content, the magazine began accepting original material in 1933. Furthermore, the Digest contracted original material to appear in other sources, which would then be anthologized in its own flagship publication. This distorted the playing field under which articles in the United States were created, since content in the Digest had to adhere to certain ideological standards, be "optimistic" in viewpoint, etc.

28 million subscribers worldwide, 1995 revenues were $3.1B, with $80M profits. It is operated by the Readers Digest Association.

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Michael Barone	Pundit	1944		Almanac of American Politics
John Barron	Journalist	26-Jan-1930	24-Feb-2005	Soviet espionage expert
Tucker Carlson	Pundit	16-May-1969		Conservative pundit on Fox News
Max Eastman	Author	12-Jan-1883	25-Mar-1969	Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism
Eugene Lyons	Author	1-Jul-1898	1985	Anti-Communist Editor of American Mercury
Eugene H. Methvin	Journalist	19-Sep-1934		Readers Digest
Robert Novak	Columnist	26-Feb-1931	18-Aug-2009	Conservative ideologue, outed Valerie Plame
Imogen Stubbs	Actor	20-Feb-1961		Twelfth Night
Kenneth R. Timmerman	Journalist	4-Nov-1953		Foundation for Democracy in Iran
Kenneth Tomlinson	Business	3-Aug-1944		Corporation for Public Broadcasting
DeWitt Wallace	Business	12-Nov-1889	30-Mar-1981	Founder of Reader's Digest

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