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Having denied last fortnight the New York Graphic's statement that he had resigned as its editor and publisher so he could "retire and rest" (TIME, July 22), Emile Henry Gauvreau last week told what he was going...
...Gauvreau explained: "It probably won't be long before I'll become editor of another New York newspaper. I hope so, anyway. I have no intention of retiring at the age of 37. I resigned from the Graphic because I disagreed heartily with Mr. Macfadden on vital and essential matters of policies, not only of his newspaper but of his other publications as well. I would never work for Mr. Macfadden again under any circumstances...
Further discourse on what he meant by "vital and essential matters of policies" Mr. Gauvreau would not give. Other newsmen guessed that Editor Gauvreau, a real newspaperman at heart and no Macfaddist, had gotten sick of the daily freak he had created to please Publisher Macfadden. The Graphic, a pink tabloid with the slogan "nothing but the truth," is scarcely newspaper. Torch murders, gang war, divorce cases, scandal, gossip, rumor, crime, are its main contents, dished up for an illiterate public with girl pictures, fan tastic "composographs" and "editorials" by unique Bernarr Macfadden...
...this group of literature that Publisher Macfadden was publishing when Youngman Gauvreau came to him in 1924, asked for a job. While Managing-Editor of The Hartford Courant, Newsman Gauvreau had contributed potboilers to Physical Culture. Publisher Macfadden, about to found the Graphic, hired the Courant's Gauvreau, soon made him Graphic Editor and Publisher...
...succeed Editor Gauvreau is one M. H. Weyrauch, onetime assistant city editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, whom Mr. Gauvreau took to the Graphic when it was started...