To answer some of the questions our subscribers have been asking about how TIME gathers, verifies, writes and distributes its news.

In a very real sense the MARCH OF TIME on the Air is your radio program--and so perhaps you would like me to bring you up to date on what has happened to it since Pearl Harbor.

For one thing, more than twice as many people are now listening in every Thursday night. In fact, the latest sampling of radio audiences shows that the MARCH OF TIME stands right up with the most popular half hour programs on the air.

It is still the MARCH OF TIME'S primary purpose "to give Americans the feeling of being on stage for history in the making."

But for still greater authority and realism, we have recently added a very important new feature to the re-enactment of memorable scenes from the week's news--to let the actual men and women who are making the news tell you their own stories from the places where the news is being born.

Many of these first-person reports have been given by plain people--like the women war workers who told you about their jobs at the arsenal proving grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland--or the Englishman just back from a Commando raid who told you the epic story of the battle of St.-Nazaire--or the U.S. bombardier in London who told you how it feels to bomb Germany.

But side by side with these unsung heroes, I guess more famous people have appeared on the MARCH OF TIME this summer than have appeared on any other program in so short a time in all the history of radio. Among them were fabulous boatbuilder Henry J. Kaiser and world-traveler Wendell Willkie, Army Supply Chief General Brehon B. Somervell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt and Philippine President Manuel Quezon

(who described from his sickbed how his people are still fighting their Japanese conquerors).

Glenn Martin told about the 70-ton flying boat he has developed. Major General Brereton spoke to you from Egypt about the U.S. Forces in the Middle East. And the United Press reports that Senator Prentiss M. Brown's plea over the MARCH OF TIME last Thursday night may well have turned the tide in the Senate in favor of his compromise plan on agricultural parity.

This new technique has permitted the MARCH OF TIME to bring you the voices of some of our TIME & LIFE correspondents like Hart Preston (in Ankara), Harry Zinder (in Cairo), Steve Laird (in London), Holland McCombs (in Rio), Bob Sherrod and Teddy White (in Australia), Felix Belair (in Washington) and 14 others who spoke from all sorts of unexpected places. And several times our editors (like Military Expert Roy Alexander, or Foreign News Editor Wilder Hobson) have gone on the air as news commentators to give you their expert judgment on some important development.

Latest news from TIME'S radio front is that we have just become junior partners in experiment-minded radio station WQXR. One purpose of this new venture is to provide tryouts of new ways for getting information to you by radio. We are already putting a new kind of news broadcast on the air from WQXR's studios for 15 minutes every night, Monday through Friday, at 9:00 P.M. And I understand that before long this program will be picked up by quite a few other stations throughout the country.

Cordially,

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