DODGE, JOHN V.

born Sept. 25, 1909, Chicago, Ill., U.S. died April 23, 1991, Glenview, Ill. in full John Vilas Dodge American editor and publishing executive of the Encyclopdia Britannica. A graduate of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. (1930), Dodge also studied at the University of Bordeaux, France (193031). During World War II he served with U.S. Army Intelligence. He joined Encyclopdia Britannica, Inc., in 1938, was managing and, later, executive editor of all Britannica publications (195064), and was vice president of the international division when he retired in 1972. Consultant to the editors of the 20-volume Encyclopdia Universalis (Paris), he also helped to develop multivolume encyclopaedias in Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.