Word: buckners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This plea from a harassed mother, the wife of one of our Paris Bureau correspondents, is old stuff to J. David Buckner, prime mover of TIME-LIFE International's Personal Shopping Service. During the war our foreign correspondents were pretty much on their own (thanks to outfits like U.S. Army Exchange Service) and needed few supplies from home. The postwar exodus of their wives & children (and of the wives & children of our other overseas personnel as well) to join them abroad changed all that. They needed all sorts of goods & services, most of which were in short supply throughout...
...date, Personal Shopping (which operates solely for the benefit of TLI bureaumen) has been a constantly expanding service, and Buckner, who has to purchase many of the "rush" items himself, is now quite at home in the unmentionables departments of Manhattan's stores. He has had orders for almost everything, from washable dolls with eyes that open & close to automobile jack assemblies and girdles. The one constant in his business, however, is the three most requested items from all of TLI's bureaus throughout the world: cigarets, coffee, vitamin pills...
Babies' diapers are Buckner's principal headache. Hard to get abroad (Parisian infants have to be shored up with newspapers), they are hard to get in the U.S. too-as many of you undoubtedly know. Buckner is accustomed to receiving frantic notes from expectant TLI mothers announcing wistfully: "I will expect the diapers when I see them!" He is generally able to assure them that the diapers will be there ahead of the baby...
...Buckner had quite a time getting shoes to fit the diagram. With it he tramped from shoe store to shoe store without success. Some salesmen thought him a bit balmy. Eventually he found the right fit. The salesman wanted to know what kind of man ordered shoes that way. Buckner told him and the salesman muttered: "Didn't know Frenchmen had such wide feet...
...leatherneck, Geiger rose from private to three-star rank, commanded all land-based aircraft which helped .turn the tide at Guadalcanal, led Marine conquests on Bougainville, Guam, Peleliu, Okinawa, became the first Marine ever to command an entire army (the U.S. 10th), on the death of General Simon B. Buckner Jr.; succeeded General Holland M. Smith as commander of the Fleet Marine Force...