Word: mundy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newcomer to the U.S. is the syndicate which signed up Elsa. Called Press Alliance, Inc., it is headed by Paul Winkler, a slight, 43-year-old, U.S.-admiring Frenchman who, until the Nazis arrived, operated Europe's largest feature syndicate (Opera Mundi). A sort of French version of Hearst's King Features (whose representative Winkler was for years), Opera Mundi differed from U.S. syndicates in two respects: It also acted as a literary agency and publisher of magazines. It had the largest women's magazine (Confidences: circ. approximately 1,000,000), three children's magazines, including...
...money to get the Lampoon out of hot water ten years ago, said last night, "A significant piece of American collegiana will pass from the scene with the demise of the Lampoon. But I'm not putting any money up for a lost cause. Sic transit gloria mundi...