Word: backer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff somewhere west of the Mississippi, where the Times and the Herald Tribune had to dicker with the Emporia Gazette to use its presses and become two-page Kansas locals; if the Mirror and LIFE, without photographs, came out in Utah; if the Post were seized and George Backer, its publisher, and Dorothy Thompson were put in a concentration camp in the Catskills; if the Christian Science Monitor's editor were arrested as a believer in magic -then New York would have some idea of what has happened to the rich newspaper business of Paris...
Last winter it was reported that Backer Marshall Field had set May 1 as the deadline for PM to succeed, but before May 1 he put up another $500,000 to keep PM going four months longer. As a byproduct the new weekly would lighten the burden of PM's $22,000-a-week editorial costs...
...Backer Field likes them,-and he will be Parade president. Probable editor is William McCleery, now editor of PM's Sunday paper. Offices of Parade will be entirely separate from...
Safely out from under his oxygen tent, tough, square-rigged Eddie Ricken backer wiggled up a wan thumb to prove his recovery. The old ace (28 planes and balloons downed in World War I) confessed that after three weeks' puzzling over the Atlanta plane crash which took eight lives and nearly his own, "I can find no explanation. We were just flying 1,000 feet too low." No man to be stopped by a broken hip, four fractured ribs, Captain Eddie summoned his Eastern Air Linemen, commenced to do business from his hospital...
...Broadway producers . . . take a backer's money, put on a show nobody wants to see and at a cost beyond all reason. When it flops they don't seem to mind. They just look around for another sucker and do another flop show. Do you realize that more than $1,000,000 has been thrown away so far this season on ... shoddy, flimsy, artificial trifles that even the producers themselves, in many cases, knew could never succeed? Who does it help to put on shows like that? Maybe the producer makes a quick profit...