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Last week Hughes picked the man he thinks can do the job. Subject to his board's approval, Hughes named as RKO's new president James R. Grainger, a veteran Hollywood distributor who is sales manager of Republic Pictures. But what RKO needed most of all was someone who could get it back into making movies...
...proposed plan requires all such organizations to register their pictures with the Dean before scheduling them and show him proof that they have contracted for the film with its national distributor. In case two groups wish to register the same film, the one which register first during the term will be given the exclusive right to show...
...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...
From across another ocean Denmark Distributor Rudolf Fardal also wrote of his first experiences with TIME. He was a distributor of Swedish newspapers and magazines, most of them banned during the German occupation. One day in 1945, he received word that a TIME Inc. representative would like to talk to him in Stockholm. To get permission to make the trip, Fardal concocted an elaborate ruse. About a year earlier, he had become the Danish representative for a paper mill in Gothenburg, Sweden. So he arranged surreptitiously to have this firm send him a letter offering to ship a large quantity...
...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...