Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S total overseas circulation, more than 125,000 newsstand copies of the Latin American, Pacific and Atlantic editions are now sold by approximately 100 local distributors, three times as many as there were at the end of World War II. Recently, I heard from two of TIME'S postwar distributors, describing their experiences in getting started in business after several years of enemy occupation. Wrote K. C. Chain, TIME-LIFE distributor on the island of Formosa...
...fact, it in effect bans the book from any public sale. If a dealer is warned of the obscenity of a specific publication, he will not in most cases make a distinction between an adult and a youth: he will simply lift the book and return it to the distributor, taking no chances...
...attitude of one distributor is vitally significant. Earle D. Mullare of the Greater Boston Distributors, one of the biggest New England outlets, said, "Compared to the number of books and magazines we handle and sell, it's relatively unimportant if they ban some of them All they have to do is tell us they don't like a book. We'll give them 100 percent voluntary cooperation...
Hollywood is morbidly jealous of TV, and TV broods itself into ulcers over the high costs of production-but Film Distributor Nat Sanders feels fine. Last year Sanders waded through a list of titles in the U.S. Office of Alien Property, found two old German pictures that many a moviegoer still remembers fondly: The Last Laugh (1924), with Emil Jannings, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). Sanders made a percentage deal with the Government, added a sound track with music and background noises, and opened his double bill last week in a small Manhattan "art" theater...
Without benefit of reviews from the New York critics, the pictures in the first week coined nearly four times as much money as the theater had been grossing-$4,700, as compared to $1,200. Moreover, Sanders, with Co-Distributor Sam Cummins, found that moviegoers seemed to prefer sure-fire old silent pictures to the latest Hollywood product: the crowds ("Longhairs, the average guys, and Park Ave.," according to Sanders) were overflowing; they were even applauding...