Word: soir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which they wrote-rowdy, defamatory, opinionated and corrupt-hastened France's collapse. The Minister of Information in Paul Reynaud's 1940 Cabinet, powerful Jean Prouvost, agitated for Hitler's armistice terms, spoke out against Britain. To Parisians, during the occupation, the name of his Paris-Soir (circ. 1,400,000) became as irrevocably linked with German propaganda as those of Le Temps, Le Matin and others which spoke in Nazi accents...
...kinds: the political papers, belonging to the parties, and the journaux d'information, the moneymaking, straight-news sheets. Today, in a city only slightly larger than Chicago, 30 dailies decorate the gay kiosks of the Parisian boulevards. Outstanding among them are the Communist-tinted Ce Soir (circ. 536,000), which concentrates on a robust sports section; Combat (circ. 165,000), generally conceded to be the most stylishly written; the Communist L'Humanité, a pamphleteering paper with a circulation of 470,000; and France-Soir and Paris-Presse (527,000 apiece), which feature splash headlines and big frontpage...
...sports expert for Paris' L'Etoile du Soir, he confidently predicts that Sweden's Lennart Strand will be the first to run a four-minute mile. With the Wanamaker Mile behind him, Hansenne expects to give MacMitchell some uncomfortable moments in this week's Boston Hunter Mile. Experts agree that he is the most promising plodder to invade the U.S. in years, and that on an outdoor track he has Olympic class...
Paris, which has no Sunday-evening papers, did not learn that De Gaulle had quit until an enterprising owner of a mimeographing machine got out a handbill with the news. Parisians fought for it at two francs a copy. Next day, Soir-Express headlined De Gaulle's departure with a touch of skepticism. It said...
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...