Word: circe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalism, ownership of newspapers and magazines is often a closely guarded secret and political pasts something many publishers would rather not discuss. No one is more mysterious about his past or surer of his present than aging (69), aloof Jean Prou-vost, whose LIFE-like picture weekly, Paris-Match (circ. 1,160,000), is one of the biggest magazines on the Continent, and who also holds financial control of the conservative, respected Figaro (circ. 499-200), oldest daily in France. Among French newsmen and politicos. Publisher Prouvost has been called everything from the "obscene corrupter of the press...
Invasion. Prouvost made his mark in publishing the easy way. A wealthy wool producer, he bought a small daily in 1924, later bought another, Paris-Soir. By setting his editorial sights low, he pushed circulation high, made Paris-Soir the biggest (circ. 2,000,000) newspaper in prewar France. He branched out into magazines, brought out Marie-Claire, and in 1938, on the heels of LIFE's success in the U.S., converted a struggling sports magazine, Match, into a thriving picture weekly. Prouvost went into politics with less success, was Minister of Information in the Reynaud government...
...left-wing Socialists are setting up a hue and cry about "Guns for the Huns"-not bothering, of course, to point out that the Communists have already armed East Germany. In Lord Beaverbrook, the maverick Tory press lord, the Socialists have an unexpected ally. His big Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) is so het up that it caricatures Chancellor Adenauer as a Mephistopheles surrounded by Junker (see cut), and not content with whatever debatable influence his editorials have, Beaverbrook has been buying up billboard space and ads in rival British papers to further his campaign...
...Japan no single daily is as big as the Tokyo edition of Yomiuri* (circ. 2,100,000). And no publisher is more flamboyant than Yomiuri's swaggering, marble-domed Matsutaro Shoriki. 69, who also owns eight big magazines and Japan's only commercial TV network. Once, for a lively story, Publisher Shoriki sent a team of reporters "down as far as you possibly dare" into an offshore volcano crater. When they returned and reported that the crater was full of the bodies of suicides, Shoriki built a platform overlooking the crater, ran excursion boats to the site...
...abruptly cut short his career as deputy police chief in Tokyo in 1924 after an assassin almost succeeded in killing the pVince regent (now Emperor). Says Shoriki, who was held responsible for the inadequate guard: "Instead of committing harakiri, I bought a newspaper." With borrowed money he purchased tiny (circ. 40,000), struggling Yomiuri, which means "reading for sale." cashed in on his police experience by getting the most sensational crime coverage in Tokyo. He added a pioneering radio section and the comics. In four years Yomiuri's circulation increased fivefold. Then Shoriki dis covered "base bolu...