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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...
...procession filed through the Basilica, Pius XII was halted thrice. Before him a master of ceremonies thrice lit wisps of flax, chanting: "Sancte Pater, sic transit gloria mundi." Thus was the Visible Head of the Holy Church reminded that, even for him, the world's glories pass...
...Medical Research," told of the "first recorded experiment in medical science by a king himself," an experiment remarkably similar in technique to work done by scientists on guinea pigs today. Said Sir Edward: "Frederick the Second. Emperor of the Romans, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, known as Stupor Mundi, the Wonder of the World, A. D. 1192-1250. Of him it is recorded that he took two knights and gave them identical meals. One of these knights he then sent out hunting and the other he ordered to bed. Several hours later he killed both and examined the contents...
Written entirely in Latin, the letter is addressed to "Illustrissimi Domini Professors Literarum Anglicarum Novi Mundi," which interpreted is "The most illustrious professors of English Literature of the New World," i.e. of American Literature...