Word: gauvreau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quickly dubbed the 'PornoGraphic, the paper assaulted the town with scandal, reported what nobody else would dream of printing, invented what it could not report. Leading the assault from a desk littered with busts of Napoleon was a short (5 ft. 2 in.), lame martinet named Emile Henry Gauvreau, a Connecticut-born newsman of French Canadian-Irish descent. His brilliance as a reporter and editor made him managing editor of the conservative old Hartford Courant at the age of 26. But the Courant was too slow for Gauvreau's new ideas. After it fired him, Macfadden lured...
...vest, waged the war for circulation (goal: 1,000,000) with stunts and sensations. The Graphic gave toys to the poor in Central Park, filled Madison Square Garden with a "Lonely Hearts Ball." The lonely hearts project was dropped within a year, when a woman deposited a baby on Gauvreau's desk and asked what he proposed to do about it. It had happened after the ball, she said...
...Gauvreau's staff ghosted byline stories by golddiggers. gigolos and bootleggers to keep his growing readership titillated with "heart balm" suits, gang wars and midnight revelries. Typical headline: HE BEAT MEI LOVE HIM. When a young mother walked into his office, introducing herself as Nan Britton and her child as the late President Harding's illegitimate daughter, Gauvreau splashed her story. He got the jump on Lindbergh's arrival in Paris before the plane had even been sighted in Ireland by taking a chance on printing and distributing 50,000 papers plastered with the photo...
Strange Race. Gauvreau also hit on a way to invent pictures that he called "composographs." He boosted circulation by 100,000 with a composograph showing Rudolph Valentino's arrival in heaven. The faked picture came most sensationally into its own when it illustrated the bedroom horseplay of eccentric Millionaire Edward ("Daddy") Browning and his young bride "Peaches," whose litigious romance was a Graphic bonanza. The couple was shown in composographs that sometimes contained balloon dialogue even for Daddy's pet goose...
...circulation mounted to 700,000, Gauvreau posted a bulletin-board communique: "The circulation ... is tearing the guts out of the presses. This has resulted from my policy of sensationalism. Any man who cannot be yellow has no place on the staff...