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...Servan-Schreiber [TIME, Sept. 27] paints a beautiful picture of what Mendés-France is trying to do for France. We wish him well, and I am sure that if he succeeds Americans will be among the first to cheer...
Most articulate of Premier Mendès-France's young braintrusters is J. J. Servan-Schreiber, 30, editor of the weekly political review L'Express. A U.S.-trained fighter pilot who served, with a Free French squadron in the Ninth U.S. Air Force, Servan-Schreiber was friend and counselor of France's Premier long before he came to power. This article was written by him for TIME...
Sounding Board. To organize and kindle this new enthusiasm, rising young newspaperman Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, publisher of the intellectual magazine L'Express, began a series of informal diners du travail. Jacques Soustelle, De Gaulle's bright young lieutenant, came, so did young MRPers of Bidault's party like André Monteil and Robert Buron, and Socialists like Robert Lacoste and Gaston Defferre. Says Servan-Schreiber: "First, we had to get a sounding board for Mendès. With his isolation in Parliament, he made brilliant speeches but there was no political echo. Secondly, he had always...
Workout in the Gym. Last year, with his father's backing, he launched the tabloid, twelve-page L'Express, hoped to "find a formula which would be a sort of cross between TIME and the [London] Economist. Servan-Schreiber has not hit that formula yet, but he has some other working formulas of his own. Up every day at 4 a.m., he works for about four hours before leaving for his office. Promptly at 7 every evening, Health Enthusiast Servan-Schreiber ("We French eat too much and exercise too little") and his ten-man staff cross the Champs...
Between editing L'Express and writing an occasional piece for Le Monde, Servan-Schreiber finds time for outside writing, also broadcasts on the French radio and lectures for BBC. France is in deplorable condition politically, he argues volubly, and "inertia [could] lead the country slowly and painlessly into Communism." But the country, says dedicated, austere Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, "may still be saved by young men convinced of their mission, whose personal lives are austere and dedicated to work...