Word: soir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...migré editor of one of Europe's great newspapers last week told what happens when a democracy's press is corrupted by its politicians. The country was France. The editor was Pierre Lazareff of Paris-Soir. His Deadline (Random House; $3) was a telling documentation of the thesis that "France was undermined and betrayed from within" because "the French people were systematically misled by a venal and treasonous press...
Editor of Paris-Soir at 33, tiny (5 ft. 2 in.) Firebrand Lazareff increased his paper's circulation from 60,000 to 2,000,000, branched out into magazines (Match, Marie Claire...
Witty, vain, gregarious Curt Riess is a former German journalist who went to Paris when Hitler came in, became U.S. correspondent for Paris-soir in 1934. His U.S. stuff (particularly on Hollywood) was syndicated all over Europe. Now a resident of Manhattan, he is married to an editor of Collier's, writes for the Saturday Evening Post. His friends: Raoul de Roussy de Sales, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Thompson...
Last week angry Nazis joined the French police in hunting the wreath layer, described as "one of the most active De Gaullist agents" in Caen. Nazi-controlled Paris-soir said he was an Englishman, Jean Hopper, whose mother, wife and daughter are in a concentration camp...
...former No. 1 French Publisher Jean Prouvost, all that remains is a one-page shadow of the once-great Paris-soir. His picture weekly, Match, once ranking as the French LIFE with a circulation of 2,500,000, has been taken over by the Germans, published as an "ersatz" called La Semaine. Seized also was his Marie-Claire (French Ladies' Home Journal, with circulation of 1,250,000), and supplanted by a Nazi rag called Pour Elle...