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Verve & Nerve. Réaltiés was founded in 1946 on unlimited hope and a meager $5,000 by two aggressive young businessmen, Humbert Frerejean and Didier Rémon. Frerejean, then 31, was working in the personnel department of a steel concern, and Rémon, then 24, with a management consultant. They originally planned a FORTUNE-style magazine for French business, but Réaltiés' scope was soon broadened under Editor Max, 41. A onetime French wire service correspondent, Max studied U.S. publishing methods while living in the U.S., where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Success Without Strings | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Twins' Trio. Not content with one publishing success, Réaltiés' Frerejean and Rémon (known to staffers as "The Twins") have fathered three other successful publications. The trio: glossy, authoritative Connaissance des Arts, the most widely read art magazine in France (circ. 46,500); Benjamin, the only "serious" children's weekly in France (where parents also complain about comic books), with a circulation of 80,000; Entreprise, France's only business magazine. The semimonthly Entreprise (circ. 40,000) was stymied at first by the traditional secretiveness of the French businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Success Without Strings | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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