The International Star Registry (ISR), founded in 1979, is a company which sells products related to entries in the Your Place in the Cosmos book published by the company every 2–3 years. As of 2009, the company has produced 8 volumes of the book which includes customers from August 2004 through July 2007.
The company was founded by Ivor Downie in Toronto in 1979. Downie sold the company to Phylis Mosele. It moved its headquarters to Ingleside, Illinois where it grew dramatically through heavy advertising—particularly on the radio.
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Famous quotes containing the word star:
“One year
They sent a million here:
Here men were drunk like water, burnt like wood.
The fat of good
And evil, the breast’s star of hope
Were rendered into soap.”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)