Word: parisiens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pretty, resourceful Mme Andrée Viollis was last week the first journalist to enter Afghanistan's freshly captured capital Kabul (TIME, Oct. 21). Her paper Le Petit Parisien had staked her to an airplane. With quick, appraising, bright French eyes she took the measure of the Conqueror, potent Nadir Khan, told how he rode through the streets on a prancing charger preceded by musicians, how his swart warriors danced and sang, how the people hailed him with shouts of "Liberator! Liberator!" Nadir had liberated Kabul from "The Usurper," rapacious Bandit-King Habibullah. But as the professed champion...
Called by romantic French reporters Le Grand Inquisiteur, and Le Sherlock Holmes Parisien, M. Bayle played in real life that familiar character of all good murder mysteries, the scientific detective. Appearing seldom in public, he spent all his working hours in his laboratory squinting through microscopes, blinking at sputtering X-ray lamps, scrutinizing bloodstains. Elaborately indexed in his bureau were the record cards of nine million criminals, five million Bertillon photographs, a halfmillion fingerprints...
...Dupuy, it was said, would absorb several liberal papers with her Petit Parisien, while M. Coty planned on various expansions and absorptions with his politically-conservative, journalistically-yellow papers. The Dupuy interests are valued at some $15,000,000 while M. Coty likes to be told he is one of the half-dozen richest men in the world...
...Dupuy, nee Helen Browne of New York, took over management of her husband's papers on his sudden death a year ago. 'Besides the Petit Parisien these include the Dimanche Illustre (the "Sunday Illustrated"), La Science et la Vie, a monthly magazine of popularized science, Omnia, a magazine for automobilists. The Sunday paper is edited after the fashion of the familiar U. S. Sunday sheet, including comic strips, many of which Mme. Dupuy imports from the U. S. Even strips involving baseball are used; and if Paris does not understand the game, well, so much the worse...
...called flaring in Paris, with crime stories played up, it was said to have attained already a circulation of around 800,000. However, in France circulations are not audited; so it was equally possible to believe (or doubt) Helen Browne Dupuy's claim that her big paper (Petit Parisien) circulates 1,500,000 daily...