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...practically all the big U.S. plane plants and training fields. He is a licensed pilot-and has flown more than 150,000 miles on assignment-to Alaska and Europe and all around the rim of South America. Probably he brings to his job a wider background knowledge of aviation-both in the flying field and the factory-than any writer in the country...
...wish I had space to sketch the background of some of the other editors who have started to write for TIME in the past few months, but these will serve as examples of the kind of men and women TIME continues to attract...
Especially wanted: women who majored in engineering, astronomy, meteorology, electronics, physics, mathematics, metallurgy, business statistics and modern foreign languages. Applicants for commissions will not breeze into recruiting offices. They will write to the naval-officer-procurement director in their city or naval district giving their age and educational background, ask for application blanks...
...centerpiece of a display in a bookstore window on Carrera Séptima was that issue of En Guardia whose cover was a color photo of F.D.R. against a background of the Stars & Stripes. The legend: "No se venden; ni la revista ni F.D.R." ("Not for sale; neither the magazine nor F.D.R...
Griffin and these 100-odd resident U.S. correspondents do a very important job for us. They scout for stories whose importance we might otherwise overlook; they telegraph local background and on-the-spot detail whenever an event of national interest breaks in their bailiwicks...