Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, where literature can be a hot front-page issue, the biggest story of the week-and the year's liveliest press brawl -raged around the blonde head of an eight-year-old poetess. Was little Minou Drouet a genius or a fraud...
France's conservative Le Figaro (circ. 490,000) burst into front-page bouquets: "Ravishing poems, sparkling with spontaneous sensations, new tingling images." Rhapsodized Professor Pasteur Vallery-Radot, of the French Academy: "She is simply a being of genius. This is art in all its purity." Overnight, little Minou's reputation rose higher than the French cost of living...
...Cruel Hoax. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's L'Express (circ. 75,000) promptly slashed at the Elle charges with double-page center spreads in defense "of that most fragile of human mechanisms: a poet." The paper ran photostats of Minou's green-inked scribbling, complete with its own expert's handwriting analysis ("imagination, energy, naive assurance") and psychological deductions ("harmoniously developed, neither stupid, nor poor nor vulgar...
...hope for better things are often laughed at. Laughter, in turn, can make for bitter or even bigoted criticism. Rodman, aware of the danger, does not hesitate to belabor some people in his own party. Among others, Rodman sideswipes A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who last summer took full-page ads in six Manhattan dailies to exhort against modern art and supine art critics (TIME, June 20). Hartford, he complains, "was asking that art define truth rather than express it-and then defining it himself in the narrowest terms . . . To demand of art a specific 'moral answer...
...copy of the special CRIMSON which was distributed in New Haven within minutes after the close of Saturday's game. Three thousand extras were given out to fans leaving the Yale Bowl and on the campus. The paper was published in New Haven, explaining the slight difference in the page's typography...