She walked slowly towards our small group, holding a purple paper folder in her hand. In April 2023, the The World in English was taking part in a conference at Reid Hall, an elegant mansion belonging to Columbia University located in the Montparnasse district of Paris, on the occasion of the first anniversary of The WorldThe English edition of. But Lois Grjebine, 94 years old today, came to tell us that The World in English existed before.

Grjebine, who walks without a cane, has caught his breath. From her purple folder, she takes out the latest issue of The World Weekly selectioneight-page newspaper dated July 29 to August 4, 1971. Its precious file also contained press clippings from 1969: two columns of Time magazine with the title “Inside France” and a photo of a young woman with brown hair and a wool sweater, all smiles, sitting in front of a wooden panel on which press articles are pinned; a page from the French edition of Vogue where a woman and four children are photographed happily eating lunch; an article on the front page of Cleveland Plain Dealership entitled “Clevelander will publish the English Le Monde”.

“It’s me,” Grjebine said. “I was the editor.” It was the second discovery of this anniversary evening. Not only The World in English already exist, but it was a woman, a mother, “from Cleveland Ohio”, who was in charge – three unusual characteristics at the time. The World at the time.

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