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Holiday cheers Posted: 25 Dec 2010 03:00 AM PST (Credit for early 1940s U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photo of "Christmas trees and wreaths in store window display," location and photographer unspecified. Courtesy of the Library of Congress' American Memory digital archive)

On December 25 Posted: 25 Dec 2010 01:04 AM PST On this day in ... ... 1890 (120 years ago today), a daughter, Lila, was born into a Presbyterian cleric's family in Virden, Manitoba, Canada. The family moved to the midwestern United States, where she grew up. In 1917 she earned a degree from the University of Oregon and became a social worker. A few years later she married a book salesman, and together they founded the Reader's Digest. An active editor, Lila Bell Acheson Wallace (right) owned 48% of the magazine. The couple received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1972. She also served as a director of the New York Central Railroad from 1954 to 1959 -- the 1st woman to serve as a railway director in the United States. She won a 1992 National Medal for her arts patronage. When she died in New York in 1984, her estate was valued at half a billion dollars. (credit for portrait of Wallace by Marguerite Stuber Pearson) (Prior December 25 posts are here, here, and here.)

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