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

In New York writing TIME'S War and Foreign News stories right now are, among others:

LONDON Stephen Laird, just back from a year in England as head of TIME'S London office--before that he was our Berlin correspondent;

CROYDON Roy Alexander, aviation expert, just back from two months with the American Air Forces in England;

GUADA-John Hersey, who spent all summer with Admiral Halsey's naval task forces and with the Marines on Guadalcanal;

PORT MORESBY Robert Sherrod, back from eight months with General MacArthur's men in Australia and New Guinea;

BERLIN Percival Knauth, four years a Berlin correspondent;

ROME Fillmore Calhoun, TIME'S correspondent in Rome until the "stab-in-the-back";

MAGNITOGORSK John Scott, who spent ten years in Russia--first as a welder, then as a research chemist, finally as a foreign correspondent;

MOSCOW Walter Graebner, a senior TIME correspondent, just back from six months in Russia and a month with the victorious British Eighth Army in Libya.

In brief, there is hardly a front where the United Nations are fighting --from the water-logged trenches along the Yangtze to the frozen steppes above Rostov, from pea-soup air above the North Sea to the deserts of Africa and the steaming jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal--but what at least one of TIME'S writers in New York can tell you first hand just what it feels like to be there with our fighting men, and fill in the cables from TIME'S regular correspondents from their own personal knowledge of the battlefronts of this war.

This month Senior Editor Charles Wertenbaker flies from New York to join General Eisenhower's men in North Africa. (This is the third time within a year that he has left his desk to get the feel of the news where it was happening--once to South America, once to Britain.) When he comes back we can be doubly sure that the cables from TIME'S regular staff men with the Fifth Army in North Africa will lose none of their first hand feel and authority in the editing here.

Also in mid-Atlantic now are Wilmott Ragsdale, England-bound for a hitch in our London office after a year on the Army & Navy staff; and Mary Welsh, who has spent the last six months writing Foreign News in this country, but is now on her way back to her regular post in England.

After Wertenbaker returns, Editor John Osborne, who spent four months in England last year, will be off again --and a week or so later still another of TIME'S writers will begin taking his shots again for all known diseases, getting out his overseas uniform, and waiting for a 5:00 a.m. call to be ready to take off on the next Clipper from LaGuardia Airport.

Cordially,

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