Reader’s Digest, September 1942, Twenty-first year, Volume 41, No. 245.  Wallace, DeWitt (Editor) and Wallace, Lila Acheson (Editor) READER'S DIGEST: SEPTEMBER, 1942: VOLUME 41, NO. 245; AN ARTICLE A DAY--OF ENDURING SIGNIFICANT, IN CONDENSED PERMANENT BOOKLET FORM.  Pleasantville, NY: Readers Digest Association, Inc., 1942. Presumed First Edition, First printing

This is the early Second World War era issue. It includes articles such as: Jews in Washington, Can the RAF Keep It Up?, Blimp, Russian Battlefront, and Wartime Wizardry. DeWitt Wallace, while he was recovering from shrapnel wounds received in World War I, had the idea to gather a sampling of favorite articles on many subjects from various monthly magazines, sometimes condensing and rewriting them, and to combine them into one magazine. The magazine's format for several decades consisted of 30 articles per issue (one per day), along with a vocabulary page, a page of "Amazing Anecdotes" and "Personal Glimpses", two features of funny stories entitled "Humor in Uniform" and "Life in these United States", and a lengthier article at the end, usually condensed from a published book. These were all listed in the Table of Contents on the front cover. Each article was prefaced by a small, simple line drawing.