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When the first draft of a story is turned over to the researcher there are sometimes as many as twenty "KOMING's"-and for each of them the researcher must find an answer. Often the bill for clearing up a single TK will run over $100, and it once cost us $300 just to make sure that the highest price ever paid for a magazine article up to then was $30,000 (to Calvin Coolidge, for a 1929 article in Cosmopolitan...
Subscribers often ask us how our research girls run down all the extra facts you find in TIME stories, and the answer isn't a simple one. For example, the researcher can sometimes fill the gaps in Draft One of a story by digging through some of the 23,000 books in our library or some of the 400,000 folders in our "morgue." Sometimes it takes a telephone call to some top authority to turn the trick. But far more often the answer requires a wired or cabled query to one of our U.S. or overseas correspondents...
Soup to Nuts. In Jersey City, six Army veterans invited the entire staff of their draft board to dinner, served nothing but cold C and K rations...
Taking with him the first draft of his report on the overseas findings of the Congressional Committee on Post War Economic Planning, on which he was a consulting expert, William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, left for Washington last night...
...tied together by the thoughts and struggles of a few major characters whose aim in life is to better the world. And in The Wind Is Rising, for the first time, the youthful idealism of Author Romains' men of good will is beginning to shiver in the cold draft of political affairs. As they enter middle age, they begin dimly to see bad omens. Chief among these omens is what Author Remains calls "the rise of gangs and the gang spirit...