Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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" to "the savior of the fourth estate." But on one judgment all agree: Prouvost is the king of French publishing...
...best staffs in Europe. Now Match, has a well-paid, 120-man editorial staff and charges the highest advertising rate in France: $4,000 for a black and whit page, $5,140 for color. In 1951, still searching for a daily for himself, Prouvos bought control (49%) of Le Figaro, let its editors run the paper with a free hand and stays far in the background...
...windows; four days later she was buried with a state funeral. But the Roman Catholic Church denied her its rites. At 81, Novelist Colette-whose books were far from other-worldly-had been twice divorced, was long out of communion with the church. Last week, in the weekly Figaro Littéraire, British Novelist Graham (The End of the Affair) Greene, a Roman Catholic convert, took Paris' Cardinal Archbishop Feltin to task for his decision. Wrote Greene...
...left wing of his majority, Russia would have time to come forward with genuine concessions in Western Europe if it wanted badly enough to halt German rearmament. So Russia too was being offered an alternative. All in all, Mendès' plan was devious, perhaps too devious. Le Figaro, bellwether of French conservative opinion, called it "full of intellectual seduction" but "fragile...
...orchestra of musicians who were languishing in other Army jobs, General Eddy was enthusiastic, put his three-starred authority fully behind the venture. The following summer the outfit made a tour of Germany and even hired itself out as pit orchestra for a production of The Marriage of Figaro at the Passau festival...