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Escape. To Wolfgang Foges, 38, Future is a show window for a resourceful printing company known as "Adprint," which is backed by Britain's potent chemical firm, C. Tennant Sons & Co. Ltd. Tennant helped Foges get out of Vienna shortly before the Anschluss; he had already made a name as editor of a youth magazine at 17, a fashion magazine...
Under the Tennant wing, Foges founded Adprint in 1937, and made it a refugee rendezvous. It printed playing cards and catalogues, supplied teams of experts to produce books in "packages," all ready for publishers to bring out. Its cheap ($1) Britain in Pictures series sold 4,000,000 copies, ran to 120 volumes covering everything from windmills to cricket...
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