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...famed Gallic publicist, looking over the latest batch of U. S. comic strips for her Sunday edition. Now and again as she listened to the hum of the presses she wondered whether today she had-scooped Senator François Coty, famed Gallic parfumier and editor of the new Ami du Peuple and other papers...
Meanwhile at the editorial desk of Ami du Peuple pondered M. Coty, hoping perhaps half-heartedly that he had been able to scoop the charming relict of his late adversary...
...Coty owns Figaro and Gaulois, and the new Ami du Peuple, founded some months ago and sold, in spite of bitter opposition by other papers and the news-vending organizations controlled by them, at the cut-rate of two sous. The usual price of a paper in Paris is five sous (25 centimes, about one cent). With headlines that would be called flaring in Paris, with crime stories played up, it was said to have attained already a circulation of around 800,000. However, in France circulations are not audited; so it was equally possible to believe (or doubt) Helen...
People who like to sniff the famed perfumes of FrançoisCoty will be glad to know that the paper of which he makes a hobby, L'Ami du Peuple, exposed the diabolic "Great Catherine." She had incautiously attacked in La, Gazette certain political schemes of Scent Tycoon Coty, and he fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick...
Died. William Hamlin Childs, 71, cleansing powder tycoon (Bon Ami) of Brooklyn, N. Y.; of acute appendicitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Childs casually accepted a formula in part payment of a debt, developed Bon Ami from it. Experts recalled that Lydia Pinkham's formula was accepted by the lady as part payment also...