Word: samedi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were younger, poorer and more serious-minded than before, but Paris' barmen happily reported that they still outdrank everyone else, with the Swedes and Britons running second and third. And just to prove that there were still 100% Americans in the crowd, there were some, groaned the weekly Samedi-Soir in feigned unhappiness, "who asked for catsup with the canard presse...
Street Fight. Last week, in a bitter circulation war, France Dimanche was within 100,000 subscribers of its rival Samedi Soir, biggest (650,000 a week) paper in France. Max Corre had helped found Samedi Soir and thought he had enough tricks to lick his old paper at his own game. In weeks of racing to get on the streets a day ahead of the other, their press deadlines had been juggled three times. Now, under a truce, they will come out the same day-Wednesday...
Maxim for Max. In June 1945 Corre began to edit Samedi Soir. Paris took to it like a dance craze; its circulation was soon 370,000. He quit a year later after a squabble and called on his old boss, Pierre Lazareff. Corre wanted to take over the dull Sunday edition of Lazareff's profitable France-Soir (TIME, June 23). "Take it," said Lazareff, "it's yours." With five hours to make his first deadline, Corre slapped together an edition that tripled France Dimanche's circulation, then 30,000. When Samedi Soir's editors...