Word: holroyd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tauchnitz was merged with its most powerful rival, the Albatross Modern Continental Library, managed by John Holroyd-Reece, onetime British cavalry officer, founder of the arty Pegasus Press and the Pantheon Series. He controlled his multilateral book business through Publishing Holding Co., with main offices in Paris, branches in London and Leipzig...
Until the war the Nazis permitted Tauchnitz to continue distributing its British and American authors, because this meant enormous printing orders placed in Germany. As late as August 1939, Holroyd-Reece wrote his Leipzig staff: "Tauchnitz has survived four [wars] and we will survive the fifth." One month after the Nazis marched into Paris they took over Publishing Holding...
Lest Dentist Holroyd's letter printed in your Feb. 24 issue induce the leopard to change his spots, I hasten to express the reactions of a reader who does not see tooth to tooth with the D.D.S...
...HOLROYD, D.D.S...