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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...books are a combined operation of the Office of International Information, which wrote the scripts and did the translating, and of 33-year-old M. Philip Copp, a former Manhattan art agent who underbid comic-book publishers for the $24,000 contract. To do the eight four-page, black & white biographies, Copp hired Artists Bruno Premiani and William Draut, two veterans of Wild West comics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: East Meets West | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...obvious that if Southworth stayed-and his $50,000-a-year contract had three years to run-the Braves would have a reshuffled team. By last week, 13 Braves who had been on Southworth's varsity in May had been traded or sold and half a dozen more were on the block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Incompatibles | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Once a year, however, as long as he keeps the Boston conductorship, Munch expects to go back where they know about such things. His two-year contract (with an optional third) allows him plenty of free time in the summers, and he and Madame Munch plan to spend their vacations in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Everybody in Kansas knew that Governor Frank Carlson wanted the job himself, but he knew no acceptable way to take it; to make himself a U.S. Senator would be to break a contract with Kansas voters. So for a month Governor Carlson had dillydallied over choosing a successor for the late Senator Clyde Reed. Last week the governor, after sifting through 232 names, finally made his choice. To fill out the remaining 13 months of Clyde Reed's term he appointed Harry Darby, a husky, gregarious son of a boilermaker who built himself into Kansas' No. 1 industrialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Fill-In | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...club files through contract with the East Coast Aviation Company of Bedford Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flying Club Will Travel to Smith On Weekend Visit | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

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