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...example, in Paris, Le Figaro's foreign editor said; "I read TIME cover to cover. I cannot read all the publications dealing with science and the arts. TIME does this for me . . ." From London, we learned that TIME is practically required reading on the Daily Express. From Bombay, we were told TIME stories appeared frequently in the daily press and TIME clippings were considered an important part of every newspaper morgue. In Western Germany, TIME was read on most of the leading newspapers. A Hamburg editor explained: "The name TIME lends authority to the story...
...Vienna, when no other non-Nazi conductor was available, his fortunes rose. To Krips, in April 1945, the Russians sent an order: "There will be a State Opera performance by May 1st or there will be no State Opera." Krips obliged the U.S.S.R. with Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, despite such handicaps as the fact that some Russians had raped one of his star sopranos that afternoon. Red troops broke into a rehearsal, hauled off Krips and his orchestra, stood guard over them while they played funeral music-for nine hours-by the bier of a murdered Red general...
Russia. In a recent Le Figaro editorial, for example. Novelist François Mauriac wrote: It is not that which separates the U.S.S.R. from the U.S.A. which should frighten us, but rather what they have in common." Mme. Cotnareanu tried to fire Brisson, but Brisson, with the publishing license from the government safely in his pocket, stayed...
Death for the Director. Judging from its stormy past, Le Figaro's next 19 years should be lively enough. Founded in 1826 as a weekly theatrical review, Le Figaro helped pay its way at first by collecting bribes from authors and playwrights for favorable notices. It later changed its ways, lured promising young authors to its pages, and was so successful, that it became a daily newspaper. When it printed pro-Dreyfus articles in the '90s, crowds stormed Le Figaro's plant and burned its equipment. In 1914, after Le Figaro published a series of bitter editorial...
...Figaro still carries a great deal of literary and theatrical criticism, but these days it lays more emphasis than ever before on sports, serial stories of topical interest and Page One editorials by Mauriac and Author Andre Siegfried (America Comes of Age). The change in ownership will presumably bring no change in policies. Under Director Brisson, Le Figaro will continue to mock whatever fools and opposition it chooses...