Herewith some news about TIME stories you may have read:

London newspapers were so anxious to tell their readers that Winston Churchill was TIME'S Man of the Half Century that two of them, the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard, came out with the, news ahead of TIME.

The London Daily Worker played true to form. "[Churchill's] personal history," it said, "is considered [by TIME] as summing up 'the dreadful and wonderful years' . . . We can at least agree in associating the word dreadful with Mr. Churchill's story." The News Chronicle's Ian Mackay, after identifying TIME as "that atrociously written but vividly readable American magazine," said: "This is very gratifying." Here at home there was much comment in the press and on the air. Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune: "TIME . . . has provided provocation to endless dispute at bars and over bridge tables."

Ernest I. Pugmire, national commander of The Salvation Army, sent us the following reaction to TIME'S cover story on him and his organization in the Dec. 26 issue:

"May I suggest that the next time you read that little sentence, 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me,' you think back and take comfort. "Your objective, intelligent work with us has brought forth what we all consider the best presentation of The Salvation Army ever made . . . I know of nothing with which we can compare it in all the years of our existence.

"The thanks of thousands of us in The Salvation Army go out to you and to those who worked with you . . . Please know that through this article things will continue to be done, as faithfully as we can do them, for the least of these others . . ."

Recently, a Chicago commercial photographer received a written request from a Latin American advertising agency for a photograph of a certain model. She should correspond, the agency explained, to a phrase in TIME which said: "She just makes you feel thirty." After some research the photographer found that the phrase referred to Louise Hyde, who was mentioned in TIME'S cover story on Model Lisa Fonssagrives (Sept. 19, 1949). However, TIME had quoted Miss Hyde's television sponsor, a soft drink manufacturer, as having characterized her as "the girl who makes you feel thirsty."

Vicente Albano Pacis, aide to Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, has sent us a serious, 16-page "comic-book" telling Quirino's life story. Writes Pacis:

"During the last U.S. presidential campaign, TIME mentioned that for the first time a political party made use of the comic-book medium. I filed away the information in my mind and when, by coincidence I found myself in New York during our own presidential campaign in the Philippines, I looked up the people who had put out the book you had mentioned. The enclosed is the result.

"Distributed in the Philippines a few weeks before the election--at a time when most prognostications gave Quirino and Laurel almost even odds--the book is now generally credited for much of the substantial lead Quirino finally garnered."

Seattle Bureau Chief James Mc Conaughy is the author of the following footnote to the life & times of a working TIME reporter:

"As in every city with a TIME bureau, Western Union quickly learns your home telephone number. One night a few weeks ago the operator phoned and began reading a long, detailed National Affairs query in a disinterested voice: How's unemployment, beef prices, mink sales? What are Seattle drinking habits, changes in bank deposits, Christmas trade forecasts, egg supplies, man-in-the-street thoughts, apartment rents, house sales? Suddenly she stopped reading and gasped: 'Good lord, what they want to know!' '

Cordially yours,

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