Although Mad was sold in the early 1960s for tax reasons, Gaines remained as publisher until the day he died and served as a buffer between the magazine and its corporate interests.

When publisher William Gaines contended that he sold only comic books of good taste, one of Gaines ' comics cover was entered into evidence which showed an axe-wielding man holding aloft a severed woman's head.

In December of the same year, the plantation was sold, along with all the slaves, to John P. Gaines's younger brother, Archibald K. Gaines.

That year, Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, and kept only Picture Stories from the Bible as the foundation of his own new company, EC Comics.

George Strother Gaines was named as the company spokesman and he bought the town site atop White Bluff as soon as it offered for sale.

Commissioners for the company were George Strother Gaines, James Childress, Walter Crenshaw, Count Charles Lefebvre Desnouettes, and Dr. Joseph B. Earle.

Pressed for content, Gaines ' company soon began adapting stories drawn from classic authors, such as Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft.

Gaines invested a considerable portion of his personal fortune to keep the company alive until a deal could be made with a new distributor.

When the movie proved to be a disjointed botch, Gaines paid the film company to remove all references to the magazine from all future prints and even issued private refunds to fans who wrote complaint letters.

The firm, first known as Educational Comics, was founded by Max Gaines, former editor of the comic-book company All-American Publications.

When that company merged with DC Comics in 1944, Gaines retained rights to the comic book Picture Stories from the Bible, and began his new company with a plan to market comics about science, history and the Bible to schools and churches.

When Max Gaines died in 1947 in a boating accident, his son William inherited the comics company.

By All Star Comics # 24, a real-world schism between National Comics and All-American Publications — a nominally independent company run by Charlie Gaines and Jack Liebowitz — had occurred, which resulted in the Detective Comics, Inc heroes being removed from the title.

After Max Gaines ' death, Educational Comics was taken over by his son Bill Gaines, who transformed the company ( now known as EC Comics ) into a pioneer of horror, science fiction and satirical comics.

A dispute over ownership of the name " Old Crow " was decided in 1915 in favor of the Gaines company.

In 2009, Helme set up independent record label, promo company and booking agency " Little Num Num Music " with fellow York musician Andy Gaines.

The term " Velvet Mafia " was first used in an article in the " Top of the Pop " column in the entertainment section of the Sunday New York Daily News in the 1970s by journalist Steven Gaines to describe the executives at the Robert Stigwood Organization, a British film and record company.

In the early 1950s, William Gaines shifted the focus of his father's comic book Company, EC Comics, from educational to gruesome, with a bevy of titles such as Tales From the Crypt, Weird Science, and Crime SuspenStories, and became the best selling company of the time ( and perhaps all time, although sales records from the period are imprecise ).

The company touted the facility, located in Gaines Township, as the most comprehensive research center for a national office-furniture manufacturer.

Among the most frequently cited " downward turning points " are: creator / editor Harvey Kurtzman's departure in 1957 ; the magazine's mainstream success ; adoption of recurring features starting in the early 1960s ; the magazine's absorption into a more corporate structure in 1968 ( or the mid-1990s ); founder Gaines ' death in 1992 ; the magazine's publicized " revamp " in 1997 ; or the arrival of paid advertising in 2001.

The early roads Gaines Trace and Byler Road went through town and connected to other places.

Gerald M. Boyd, a St. Louis native and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times who was one of a few hundred black students at the University of Missouri in the early 1970s, recalls hearing Gaines ' story early in his time there, when he was confronted by open displays of racial prejudice such as the university's " Confederate Rock ".

In 2001, the school's African American center was named for Gaines and another early African American who challenged the school's color bar in court.

Some of these include Bishop Wesley John Gaines, Reverend Frank Quarles ( an early benefactor of Morehouse College ), Carrie Steele Logan, and Antoine Graves, the owner of the only mausoleum in the black section.

In the early 19th century, Gaines surveyed routes and boundaries in the Mississippi Territory including parts of the Natchez Trace.

Gaines and Feldstein wrote almost every other story until late 1953 / early 1954 when outside writers Carl Wessler and Jack Oleck were brought in.

Writers in the early issues included Feldstein, Gaines, Kurtzman, Harrison and Gardner Fox.

Writers in the early issues included Feldstein, Gaines, Kurtzman, Harrison and Gardner Fox.

As the Filipino film industry dwindled in the early 1990s, James Gaines slowed down his film work and is now semi-retired as an actor.

Gaines was named a Kinney board member, and was largely permitted to run Mad as he saw fit without corporate interference.

" Captain White's Company B, " Louisiana Tigers ", of Major Wheats's First Special Battalion, were not at Gettysburg, having been disbanded after Wheat's death at Gaines Mill in 1862.

Gaines and Company kept the name and continued to distill the bourbon according to his recipe, the original distillation formula died with its creator.

Doubt ran at the Auckland Theater Company in New Zealand, from 16 March to 8 April 2006, directed by Colin McColl, with Latham Gaines as Father Flynn, Elizabeth Hawthorne as Sister Aloysius, Kate Prior as Sister James and Goretti Chadwick as Mrs Muller.

Petrea studied Shakespeare with Barbara Gaines of Chicago Shakespeare Repertory and with John Barton and members of the Royal Shakespeare Company at the British / American Drama Academy.

The Life of Chris Gaines, which was intended as a ' pre-soundtrack ' to the film.

Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television mockumentary for the VH1 series Behind the Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live which he hosted as himself.

Gaines reportedly kept in his office a voodoo doll into which he would stick pins labeled with each imitation of his magazine, removing a pin only when the copycat had ceased publishing.

Critics ( such as Jane Gaines, Ronald Green, and Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence ) celebrated the skill with which Micheaux intercut the lynching of the Landry family with the attempted rape of Sylvia by Gridlestone.

On June 30, Black Hawk, Quashquame, and other Sauk leaders met with Gaines and signed an agreement in which the Sauks promised to remain west of the Mississippi and to break off further contact with the British in Canada.

According to the Jacobs biography, Gaines professed himself an atheist since age 12 and once told a reporter that his was probably the only home in America in which the children were brought up to believe in Santa Claus but not in God.

It began inauspiciously, with an incident in which Feldstein and Gaines plagiarized man ".

* William E. Gaines, American politician, character actor known for his roles in film and theatre, which often promoted equal rights for same-sex couples.

New Houlka is a town in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, which includes the older settlement of " old Houlka ", the oldest white settlement in the county, established in 1812 at the intersection of the Natchez Trace and Gaines Trace, approximately one mile from the Chickasaw Indian Agency.

It is located on the Gaines Trace Road which was surveyed by E. P. Gaines in 1807 at the request of President Thomas Jefferson.

* January 31 – CBS airs a multi-Emmy-winning adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines ' novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which follows the 110-year life of a former slave from the Civil War to the civil rights movement.

Then in March 1956, they joined another tour, which featured Roy Gaines, Guitar Slim, Margie Day, and Lloyd Lambert.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), which had supported Gaines ' suit, planned to file another suit challenging the adequacy of the new law school.

The Gaines holding helped lay the foundation for the landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which ordered all public schools desegregated and overturned Plessy by holding that separate facilities were inherently unequal.

Callie Gaines, bedridden in her attic, shared her last conversation with him in which both of them realized that he wouldn't actually be following through and enrolling in the University of Missouri School of Law.

She reported a conversation with Gaines in which he was at best ambivalent about continuing the legal case and attending the University of Missouri School of Law.

In a 2004 paper, LeeAnn Whites, a professor of Civil War history at the school, repeated a version of it in which Gaines had been on his way to enroll at the school as an undergraduate and had disappeared from a train traveling across the state, with the implication that he was murdered.

The Supreme Court of Missouri, which had denied Gaines ' admission almost 70 years before, and the state bar association granted him an honorary posthumous law license.

Initially, Brooks planned to feature the Gaines persona in The Lamb, a motion picture which, ultimately, never materialized.

The Life of Chris Gaines, which was intended as a ' pre-soundtrack ' to the film.

Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television " mockumentary " for the VH1 series Behind The Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live, which he hosted as himself.

Long-term EC Comics fan Cochran auctioned Bill Gaines ' personal file copies of EC publications, as well as most pages of original EC artwork ( which, almost uniquely, Gaines had maintained ownership and possession of ), before being granted the reprint rights to the EC back catalog itself.