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The syndicate desired to have a comic strip featuring the character ; they had asked Bill Watterson to incorporate the character into Calvin and Hobbes, but Watterson refused.
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The America's Cup racing resumed in 1958 after World War II by a syndicate led by Henry Sears, more economical vessels were desired to replace the huge and expensive J-class yachts that were raced in the 1930s ; the 12 Metre class was selected.
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Wallace Beery claimed to have turned down a $ 500, 000 offer from a syndicate of Indian studios to play Buddha in order to take the role in The Champ.
A coverholder can have full or limited authority to underwrite on behalf of a Lloyd's syndicate.
Alternative theories have circulated, especially in Chicago, where there were rumors that Zangara was a hired killer, working for Frank Nitti, who was the head of the Chicago Outfit ( Chicago's largest organized-crime syndicate ).
The syndicate was able to charge a stud fee of £ 50, 000-£ 80, 000 for Shergar and if his offspring did well on the track that fee would have doubled.
Few gained from the theft of Shergar-the thieves never got their money and most insurers never paid out to the syndicate, claiming that he could still have been alive after the policy had expired.
The rabbit hires Valiant to find out why his employers, the DeGreasy Brothers, the sleazy owners of a cartoon syndicate, have reneged on a promise to give Roger his own strip.
#* The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the national syndicate of organized crime, as a group, was not involved in the assassination of President Kennedy, but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved.
His subsequent investigation and the kidnapping near his apartment of a Japanese man interested in giving a letter to him leads Tintin to a ship called Karaboudjan, where he is abducted by a syndicate of criminals who have been hiding opium in the crab tins.
As a syndicate board member, Adonis, along with Buchalter, may have been responsible for assigning some murder contracts to Murder Inc.
However, the syndicate is soon revealed to have become a large company, and then an international syndicate, making Minderbinder the Mayor of Palermo, Assistant Governor-General of Malta, Shah of Oran, Caliph of Baghdad, mayor of Cairo, and the god of corn, rain, and rice in various pagan African countries.
After having no success in attempting to syndicate Hector, Armstrong created Jump Start, which was designed to have a broader appeal than the earlier strip.
A syndicate of banks ( the lead managers ) underwrite the transaction, which means they have taken on the risk of distributing the securities.
He is known to have become a partner in the Galveston crime syndicate run by " Johnny " Jack Nounes.
The film is about two orphans-Mac Ramsey ( Ivan Sergei ) and Li Ann Tsei ( Sandrine Holt ) who have spent their life living with the Tang family-a ruthless Chinese organised crime syndicate.
In 1925, British Guiana began producing enough diamonds to attract the attention of the syndicate, and in November 1925 a Mr Oppenheimer, representing the syndicate, entered into a contract with Mr Perez, the operator of the Guiana mines, to have worth of diamonds provided to the syndicate over a twelve month period.
The company used Oppenheimer as a technical adviser, and immediately arranged to have its diamonds sold to the syndicate.
Encausse and Carrère predicted that this syndicate was a Jewish conspiracy, and the Anti-Zionist nature of these articles, compounded by Encausse's known connection to the Tsar of Russia, may have contributed to the false allegation that Papus was the author who forged The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Stephen, Smith, and Angus were the sole members of the original syndicate to have kept their nerve.
In 1899 Sir Cosmo Bonsor formed a private syndicate to have the line extended from Kingswood to its current terminus at Tattenham Corner in order to catch the racegoing traffic.
When a public offering trades below its offering price, the offering is said to have " broke issue " or " broke syndicate bid ".
" Recently, the SEC “ staff has learned that in the US syndicate covering transactions have replaced ( in terms of frequency of use ) stabilization as a means to support post-offering market prices.
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Most newspaper comic strips are syndicated ; a syndicate hires people to write and draw a strip and then distributes it to many newspapers for a fee.
He assembled a syndicate and formed the Comedy Opera Company, with Gilbert and Sullivan commissioned to write a comic opera that would serve as the centrepiece for an evening's entertainment.
In 1958, Cole created his own daily newspaper comic strip, Betsy and Me, and successfully sold it to the Chicago Sun-Times syndicate.
When Davis attempted to sell it to a national comic strip syndicate, an editor told him, " Your art is good, your gags are great, but bugs — nobody can relate to bugs!
A comic strip syndicate functions as an agent for cartoonists and comic strip creators, placing the cartoons and strips in as many newspapers as possible on behalf of the artist.
In 1980, he launched Tinkle, a children's anthology, which was started under Rang Rekha Features, India's first comic and cartoon syndicate, that lasted till 1998, with him as the Managing Director.
In 1969, Anant Pai founded Rang Rekha Features, India's first comic and cartoon syndicate, and started the children's magazine Tinkle in 1980.
After three years study at the Chicago Art Institute, Ahern went to Cleveland and worked for the NEA syndicate ( 1914 – 15 ) as a sportswriter and artist, initially inking comic drawings for $ 18 a week.
A comic strip of the same name was produced by the LA Times syndicate from March 1997 to January 2000.
The comic has become known for its increasingly intricate plots, which involve conflicts with supernatural adversaries and the " Ninja Mafia " crime syndicate.
He believed Shakespeare was actually a syndicate of a half-dozen writers, with Shakespeare himself writing only the comic parts of the plays.
In 1976, when numerous newspapers nationally including the Madison Capital Times declined to run a series of Gary Trudeau's " Doonesbury " comic strips because of their controversial content, The Badger Herald negotiated with the syndicate and was the only paper regionally to print the cartoons.
In a comic strip published on January 2, 2009, one character wonders if the Colombian crime syndicate puts parts of the body of Juan Valdez in each can of coffee.
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It did not stir syndicate interest, but what he learned on the strip helped him when he created On the Fastrack.
A cartoonist, paid by the syndicate, or sometimes a relative of the original cartoonist continues writing the strip, a tradition that became commonplace in the early half of the 20th century.
Dirks sued, and after a long legal battle, the Hearst papers were allowed to continue The Katzenjammer Kids, while Dirks was allowed to syndicate an almost identical strip of his own for the rival Pulitzer newspapers.
During contract negotiations, the syndicate approached Meddick with a request to change the name of the strip to Monty and to de-emphasize and remove the Robotman character from the strip.
He began doing the cowboy strip, Lariat Pete, 6 September 1903 for the McClure syndicate after Two Jolly Jackies came to an end.
Although Terry and the Pirates had made Caniff famous, the strip was owned by the syndicate, which was not uncommon at the time.
Conley also drew Pastis in his strip twice during a week where the two cartoonists decided to play a prank on their syndicate by having Conley copy and paste Get Fuzzy characters over Pearls strips.
Beginning August 7, 1933, the strip was distributed by NEA syndicate, and the early material was reworked for a larger readership.
While the strip was a major success, it was not owned by its creator but by its distributing syndicate, the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News, a common practice with syndicated comics at the time.
The syndicate held a " two-man tryout " with Manley being offered the full-time job over Heebnik after Manley turned in his second week of art for the strip.
Shooter added that while the syndicate threatened to drop the strip if a new writer were not brought in, " Steve can tell you a good number of horror stories — and they're all true — about the trouble we had getting artists.
However, the rights for the strip he had created, written and drawn ( for Chicago Tribune newspaper syndicate editor Captain Joseph Patterson ), were entirely owned by the syndicate.
Lynde created the strip and worked on it until 1977, when he left the syndicate.
As the syndicate owned the rights to the strip, Rick O ' Shay was continued by others: Marian Dern ( writer ), Alfredo Alcala and Mel Keefer ( artists ).
When Wunder, who lived in Sherman, Connecticut, announced his retirement, the syndicate chose to cancel the strip on February 25, 1973.
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