Cino Del Duca was an Italian-born businessman, film producer, and philanthropist who moved to France in 1923, where he made a fortune in the French publishing business.
Cino Del Duca, at center with glass
Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by a French-Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L. Gold, who rapidly made Galaxy the leading science fiction magazine of its time, focusing on stories about social issues rather than technology.
David Stone's cover for the first issue of Galaxy
Rear cover of first issue
Nine issues of Galaxy, showing the major variations in cover design over the magazine's lifetime