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...armed services, VIP means "very important person." It means the same thing to Manhattan's VIP Service, Inc., run by a fast-talking ex-Navy officer, William Jeremiah Murphy, and his wife Charlotte Morgan, both 32. Principal stock-in-trade of VIP: red carpeting for the VIPs of U.S. business. By last week, exactly one year after VIP Service was started, Bill Murphy was on his way to becoming a VIP himself. His service was rolling out red carpet at the rate of $100,000 a year...
...Excellency Pedro G. Beltran, the Peruvian ambassador, was Harvard's VIP (Very Important Person) guest Wednesday. He was received by David M. Little '17, Secretary to the University, in the morning and then toured the Yard, the libraries, and Fogg Museum...
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...
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...