During the 1950s and 1960s, he served as an unofficial art director for Ballantine Books.

He did pay Tolkien, and he was responsible for making not only Tolkien but Ballantine Books extremely wealthy.

Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.

He was a participant in one of the all-time great literary hoaxes, I, Libertine ( Ballantine Books, 1956 ), along with Jean Shepherd, Ian Ballantine and Theodore Sturgeon, incorporating several hidden jokes and references into his cover painting for that book.

That same year he drew cartoon illustrations for Bernard Shir-Cliff's The Wild Reader, also for Ballantine.

Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1954, reprinted in A Medicine for Melancholy )

A pre-renovation Yankee Stadium in 1959 Many sources incorrectly state that prior to the 1955 season, Yankee Stadium's Ballantine Beer scoreboard was sold to the Phillies for use in Shibe Park.

In May, 2012, Dewey & LeBoeuf ( the successor firm to Dewey Ballantine ) filed for bankruptcy.

In 2004, Easley won again, winning with 59 % to 40 % for opponent Patrick Ballantine.

In 1896, the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad established Ballantine as a station, named for homesteader E. P. Ballantine.

Imperial Earth is a novel written by Arthur C. Clarke, and published in time for the U. S. bicentennial in 1976 by Ballantine Books.

Ballantine, as counsel for Lord Mordaunt, the plaintiff, was entitled to cross-examine the Prince of Wales.

When publisher Ian Ballantine, novelist Theodore Sturgeon and Shepherd met for lunch, Ballantine hired Sturgeon to write a novel based on Shepherd's outline.

It was best known for Ballantine Ale, a pale ale that is one of the oldest brands of beer in the United States.

Lud-in-the-Mist was reprinted in 1970 in mass-market paperback format by Lin Carter, without the author's permission, for the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, and then again by Del Rey in 1977.

Sidgwick & Jackson published it in novel form for the British readership in 1953, followed the next year by a US hardcover edition from Gnome Press and a paperback from Ballantine Books.

Mel Brooks adapted the character to create the 2500 Year Old Brewmaster for Ballantine Beer in the 1960s.

Ballantine prevailed in the struggle for the Tolkien work, with their editions of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings including a message on the back cover from Tolkien himself urging consumers to buy Ballantine's version and boycott " unauthorized editions " ( i. e. the version from Ace Books ).

The airboat was built by Charles Post and Herbert Ballantine in Huntington, NY and tested on the Long Island's Hewlett Bay.

Authors such as Catherine Asaro, Philippa Ballantine, Charles Shields, T. J. Perkins, and others have spoken there in recent years.

However, Ballantine lost the case because he had failed to convince the jury that Lady Mordaunt was guilty.

Ace printed the first paperback edition and caused such a furor that Tolkien rewrote the books enough to get a new copyright, then sold them to Ballantine.

Ballantine became a Serjeant-at-law in 1856, being then entitled to wear the white coif or cap of that rank ( see illustration ).

) She was also instrumental in obtaining the rights to publish novels based on George Lucas's then un-released movie Star Wars, which would earn Ballantine / Del Rey several million dollars.

Since then, the museum has expanded several times, to the south into the red brick former YMCA, to the north into the 1885 Ballantine House, and in 1990, to the west into an existing acquired building.

Soon after, Ballantine departed and Fred Field, a well-respected tax lawyer who was a friend of Procter ’ s and a colleague of Ballantine ’ s at the Revenue Bureau, signed on, and the firm was then known as Goodwin, Procter, Field & Hoar.

Over the next decade, while working in publishing-with Transworld, then Penguin, Collins, and Granada in London, and later with Ballantine and Warner in New York, he produced fourteen westerns as well as a considerable body of journalism.

He then wrote the first eight books in Ballantine Books ' Chopper-1 series, under the pseudonym Jack Hawkins.

* Walker, Bill-The case of Barbara Graham, Ballantine Books, New York, 1961.

On that same day, it voted by 53 % to 45 % to re-elect Democratic Governor Mike Easley against local Republican Patrick J. Ballantine.

Ian Keith Ballantine ( February 15, 1916 – March 9, 1995 ) was a pioneering American publisher who founded and published the innovative paperback line of Ballantine Books from 1952 to 1974 with his wife, Betty Ballantine.

* 1886 – Edward Ballantine, American composer ( d. 1971 )

Ballantine Books, 1994.

* Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great, His Life and World ( New York: Ballantine, 1981 ).

It published hardcover editions in England, which were republished in the United States by the Del Rey imprint of Ballantine Books.

* Powell, Colin A. and Joseph Persico, My American Journey, Ballantine Books, 1995.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.

Ace and Ballantine dominated sf in the 1960s and built the genre by publishing original material as well as reprints.

In 1982, Ballantine published the first widely-available Bill James Abstract, which helped fuel fantasy baseball interest.

( New York: Ballantine Pub ) ISBN 0-345-40876-4.

New York: Ballantine Books.

Ballantine Books, which publishes the Garfield books, released a volume of Garfield Minus Garfield strips on October 28, 2008.

The corrected texts were released by Arkham House in the 1980s, and many other collections of his stories have appeared, including Ballantine Books editions and three popular Del Rey editions.

In 1952, he was awarded the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal.

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery New York: Ballantine Books, ( 1995 ) ISBN 0-345-40437-8.

New York: Ballantine, 1998.

Escher, Ballantine, 1971.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1957.