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A. A. Wyn

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Aaron A. Wyn (May 22, 1898 – November 3, 1967), born Aaron Weinstein, was an American publisher. He edited pulp magazines for Harold Hersey's Magazine Publishers. When Hersey departed the company in the summer of 1929, Wyn, after a brief interlude from Harold S. Goldsmith, took charge of the company. Hersey's swastika logo was dropped to be replaced by an ace symbol. The company took on the brand, Ace Magazines. The company's main pulps were Detective-Dragnet (later changed to Ten Detective Aces), Western Trails, Secret Agent X, Love Fiction Monthly, and many others. He also published comics under the Ace Comics name.
Wyn branched out into book publishing in 1945. He founded Ace Books, which specialized in genre paperback books, in 1952.
Wyn was famous for paying his authors as little as he could get away with, which prompted David McDaniel to encode a comment on Wyn into one of his The Man from U.N.C.L.E. novelization, The Monster Wheel Affair. The first letters of each chapter's title in the book's table of contents, when lined up, spell out "A.A. Wyn is a tightwad". The joke went unnoticed by Wyn^[1].

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1. ^ See Chapter Six of Richard Lynch's outline of the history of the science fiction fandom in the 1960s

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• Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 2, 471, Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.
• "AARON WYN, 69, PUBLISHER, DEAD; President of Paperback and Hardcover Concerns". The New York Times. November 5, 1967. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10812F93C5812718DDDAC0894D9415B878AF1D3. Retrieved March 30, 2010. 

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Wein

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Wein means grape, vine, wine in German language and Yiddish language.
According to Nelly Weiss, Wein- style family names are originated from signboards (house sign, house shield, herald) like Jewish communities like Frankfurt/Main. Wein may also be related to the city Wien (Vienna), or the German verb "weinen".
Wein is the surname of:

• Albert Wein, an American sculptor
• Berel Wein, an Orthodox rabbi
• Desiderius Wein (1873 - 1944), Hungarian doctor, gymnast
• Elizabeth E. Wein, an American author residing in Scotland
• George Wein, jazz pianist
• Glynis Wein, a colorist in the comics industry, first wife of Len Wein
• Len Wein, am American comic book writer
• Alex Wein, a notable American scholar

[edit] See also

• All pages beginning with "Wein"
• Wain
• Wine
• Vine