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...used to the boss's violent temper tantrums. It is a dull day in the grimy, ill-lit building near the Place de la Bourse when only four or five storms blow out of the tiny office where tiny (5 ft. 2 in.) Editor in Chief Pierre Lazareff sits, guarded by two doormen and five secretaries...
...behind his big, black-rimmed spectacles, he squeaked invectives and obscenities at the top of his lung power, slammed telephones, kicked the furniture and insulted the mentalities of his reporters, editors and make-up men. The staffers took it calmly. They knew that five minutes after every squall Lazareff would be rushing around the plant and tenderly calling everybody "mon petit Coco...
...last week most French journalists were ready to agree that 40-year-old Pierre Lazareff is the closest thing to genius in the French press. The weekly Point de Vue dubbed him "Napoleon of Journalists." Lazareff's successes were indeed Napoleonic. In the 30-odd months since he returned to France (after almost four years as a war exile in the U.S., where for a time he headed the French radio section of the Office of War Information), he had put together a more formidable empire than he had before...
...Helene Lazareff knows how to mix such ingredients into a palatable Franco-American dish. She started out as an ethnologist, lived with an African tribe two months and sold a series of articles about the adventure to L'Intransigeant, caught on with Paris-Soir, married its editor, Pierre Lazareff. As the editor of Marie-Claire (a sort of Ladies' Home Journal with a French accent), she ran its circulation to 1,250,-ooo copies a week before France fell. As wartime refugees in the U.S., the Lazareffs kept busy, he with the French section...
...wife's 20-franc (40^) weekly will be no child of Marie-Claire. Said Mme. Lazareff: "Something has happened in between. The youth in France are much less fluffy. The chichi is passe...