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Field Enterprises was a private holding company founded on August 31, 1944, by Marshall Field III and others whose main asset was the ''Chicago Sun''.〔"Owns The Chicago Sun: Field Enterprises, Inc., Organized By Marshall Field", 'The New York Times'', 1 September 1944, page 22.〕 That same year the company acquired the book publishers Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books. It also operated a syndicate, Field Newspaper Syndicate, whose most popular offering was the comic strip ''Steve Canyon''. Comic strip historian Allan Holtz has written regarding the origins of the syndicate and its relationship to the rest of the company: :Field... was a syndicate initially created by Marshall Field to sell features from his ''Chicago Sun'' newspaper. When Field started the ''Sun'' he found that Chicago was pretty much all sewed up with exclusive contracts on the better features. He resolved to purchase his own features and market them. Ironically, the Field Enterprises syndicate ended up being a better moneymaker than the ''Sun'' itself. It has been said that the flagship feature, ''Steve Canyon'', was responsible for keeping the ''Sun'' afloat for many years.〔(Holtz, Allan. "Obscurity of the Day: Hit or Miss'' April 13, 2010. )〕 Other features included the editorial cartoons of Bill Mauldin and the "Ask Ann Landers" advice column. ==Mergers== The Sun later merged with the ''Chicago Times'' to create the ''Chicago Sun-Times''. Besides the ''Sun-Times'', Field Enterprises also owned broadcaster Field Communications, founded ''Parade'' magazine and owned the ''World Book'' encyclopedia from 1945 to 1978. Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books were sold in 1957 following the death of Marshall Field III. ''Parade'' was sold the following year. Field Enterprises was dissolved in April 1984 after the sale of the ''Sun-Times'', the last of their valuable assets, to Rupert Murdoch the previous year.〔Friendly, Jonathan. "Murdoch Buys Chicago Sun-Times", ''The New York Times'', 2 November 1983, page D1.〕 Murdoch & News Corporation sold the ''Sun-Times'' to Hollinger International (now the Sun-Times Media Group) in 1986. Hollinger was formerly controlled, indirectly, by Canadian-born businessman Conrad Black. Field Newspaper Syndicate was sold the same year to Hearst's syndication division, King Features Syndicate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Field Enterprises」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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