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William Gaines

(1922—1992)

U.S. publisher of MAD magazine

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[write-up] {n.} A report or story in a newspaper or magazine. * /There was a write-up of the accident in the newspaper./ * /I read an interesting write-up about the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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