Word: bureau
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From his office window last week, Harry Zinder, chief of TIME-LIFE International's Cairo bureau, could see the flocks of turkeys, geese and fat-tailed sheep, the herds of goats and gamoose (water buffalo) moving through the cluttered streets to the holiday markets. Christmas was at hand, and Zinder, as usual, was finding it a time of rejoicing and confusion...
...this year 274 of the news stories TIME has printed have been contributed (or substantially contributed to) by our Chicago news bureau. Of all TIME'S 13 domestic bureaus (whose function is to give TIME its own intimate coverage of nationally interesting local news). Chicago has the most difficult geographical assignment. Its territory extends west to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, south as far as Oklahoma...
...goes, so far as the Chicago bureau is concerned. It was the need for this kind of local-national coverage that moved TIME to open its first out-of-town news bureau -in Chicago - 17 years ago. Now, under Bureau Chief Penrose Scull, it is a funnel for the news of the U.S.'s second largest city and the great slice of the Midwest stretching out from it. By virtue of being there, Chicago bureaumen, working closely with TIME correspondents in major cities within their area, can be expected to supply
Being TIME'S oldest bureau, Chicago has the most impressive list of alumni of all our domestic bureaus. They include Walter Graebner, European Area Director for TIME-LIFE International; Eleanor Welch and Fillmore Calhoun. assistants to the Chief of Foreign Correspondents; Sidney James, LIFE'S National Affairs Editor; James McConaughy Jr., Ottawa bureau chief; Robert Sherrod, TIME'S roving correspondent in the Pacific; David Hulburd, chief of all TIME'S domestic news bureaus. Like many another TIMEman who learned his trade in the field, they have brought to their new jobs at home and abroad...
Under the supervision of William G. Perry '35, Director of the Bureau of Supervisors, two unprecedently large classes of 85 and 100 students this week completed one month courses to increase reading rate and comprehension...