Word: collier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...preferred": American, Click, Collier's, Coronet, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Liberty, LIFE, Look, National Geographic, Newsweek, New Yorker, Omnibook, Pic, Reader's Digest, Redbook, Saturday Evening Post, TIME...
Died. John Rippey Morris, 43, Far Eastern United Press manager since 1933, brother of Collier's managing editor Joe Alex Morris; after a twelve-story leap from his office window; in Manhattan. Morris had been about to return to India...
Virgil Franklin Partch 2nd became a cartoonist because he wanted to make a living sitting down. Last week, 28-year-old Cartoonist Partch (pen name: VIP) was sitting pretty. He was a regular Collier's contributor of two years' standing, he had a fat commercial advertising contract, and his first book of comic drawings, It's Hot in Here (McBride; $1) was selling fast in U.S. bookstores...
...admiring visitor. But three years ago, Hollywooder Partch found himself trying to support his wife and child on $18 weekly unemployment relief checks. He had taken part in a strike at the Walt Disney Studios. Eighteen-dollar boredom finally prompted Partch to send a batch of cartoons to Collier's Cartoon Editor Gurney Williams...
Williams bought them. Since then, VIP cartoons have titillated Collier's readers every week. Partch supplies his own gags, considers them the easiest part of his work. To the New Yorker he sells gags alone. He also sells cartoons to Manhattan's PM, draws ads for Wheaties and for Squirt (a California-made drink mixer...