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Fullback in the Pulpit. His leadership of Christian Endeavor and his editorship of the influential lay religious magazine, the Christian Herald (circ. 390,000), make big Baptist Dan Poling a potent figure in U.S. Protestantism. He throws most of his weight into two-fisted action, rather than into theological ideas. In college, he played football on Saturdays and preached on Sundays; once he appeared in the pulpit with two black eyes and a swollen knee. In 1912 he ran for governor of Ohio. Even if he had won, he was too young (27) to take office legally; but Dan Poling...
...Army two years ago. He knocks down his war-born reputation as "overinflated, overpublicized-and I wasn't that good." When he started doing civilian strips (TIME, Sept. 24, 1945), he had 180 papers using his cartoons; now he is down to 79 (circ. about 5,000,000). He is not bitter over the cancellations: "The quality of my drawings was lousy, and I got mad when I heard everybody talking about another war before the blood had dried up. I made the mistake of going around trying to hit people with a sledge hammer. I lost my sense...
...went to the public auction of a struggling little Disciples of Christ publication (circ. about 600). No other prospective customers showed up, so Dr. Morrison got the Christian Century for $1,500 cash...
France-Soir is not the only place where Lazareff dips an end-chewed pen. His France-Dimanche, a sexy-sensational weekly, hits 400,000 circulation. He has a weekly sports Record, (circ. 180,000), something for the kiddies called France Soir-Jeudi, a slick monthly, Réalités, which he calls "a very modest FORTUNE," and a syndicate called Scoop, which sells France-Soir's features to the hinterland. His wife, Héléne Gordon Lazareff, who trained on the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar, now edits Elle, a Parisian women...
...became its city editor. He needled the news with sensationalism but did not twist it politically, as most prewar French papers did. In a year its circulation multiplied twelve times. Then Lazareff took on Paris-Soir, in a few years ran it to France's biggest daily (circ. 2,500,000). He put the formula to work on a picture magazine, and Match surged to 1,200,000 circulation. His Marie-Claire, for women, hit 1,000,000. Lazareff left Paris when the Germans arrived; his collaborator, Jean Provoust, stayed on and worked under the Nazis...