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...acquired last summer for $8,000,000). Principal purchasers (12 ½% each): TIME INC. and Chester J. LaRoche, onetime board chairman of the potent advertising firm of Young & Rubicam, who becomes a director and chairman of the executive committee of the Blue. Other purchasers: Mark Woods, president, and Edgar Kobak, executive vice president, of the Blue Network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Blue Sale | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...James B. "Powerhouse" Kobak, of New York and Syracuse, the intrepid A-Housers smashed a portion of the window, releasing the poor cat, who was left behind when the owner went on a vacation. But the reaction was not all sweetness and light, for the pussy scratched and bit the courageous Kobak and his companions, forcing them to deposit her back in the window again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cats Can Be Cantankerous, Say Foiled Feline-Fanciers | 6/5/1942 | See Source »

...lesser Blue network, likely to be sold or partitioned as a result of one FCC decree, answered jubilantly that it had just landed a new program sponsored by General Electric Co. To his staff, Blue's vice president in charge of sales Edgar Kobak memoed: "Who's blue-not the Blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mutual Walks Out | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Longest bed discovered in the Cencus of Sleepers was a seven foot, four inch job in the room of James B. "Shorty" Kobak in A entry. Kobak, standing five-foot seven in his crepesoled brogans, planned to chain his prize to a radiator. "I'm not big, but I kick around a lot," he apologized last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AID FOR SIX FOOTERS WILL BRING REFORM OF BED THING | 10/1/1940 | See Source »

...Edgar Kobak, vice president & general sales manager of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., was elected president of the Advertising Federation of America at its 28th annual convention, in Manhattan, succeeding Gilbert Tennent Hodges, member of the executive board of the New York Sun, who was made board chairman, a position vacant for the past two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Jul. 4, 1932 | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

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