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...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...
...Paris, bureaumen had thoughtfully tucked away such choice items as truffles, chestnuts and chocolates, and William Chapman's two small sons, Benny and Johnnie, eagerly awaited the appearance of their new Santa, Père Noel. In Buenos Aires, Christmas was certain to be one of the hottest days of summer, and most of the TIME staff would undoubtedly top off the day by going swimming. It was just as certain to be a white Christmas in Moscow, where Bureau Chief Craig Thompson and his wife were pointing for a Christmas Eve party at Spasso House, home...
...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
Together, Story List and Memorandum are a kind of TIME in miniature. Although Washington bureaumen mainly have their eyes on the news of politics and foreign affairs, they are also responsible for the news of medicine, art, science, education, etc. that the capital makes. To keep up-to-date on what has happened and is going to happen in his field (Treasury, State Department, Army & Navy, etc.) each correspondent spends most of his week going his separate way, interviewing sources, etc.-which may include, as it did recently, an assignment to Bikini or a political depth-sounding junket into Pennsylvania...
...left Philadelphia to take his new Sun job, the Inquirer's circulation had risen from 270,000 to 461,000 daily, from 650,000 to 1,380,000 Sunday. His popularity with the staff was such that, on the day he left, the Inquirer's eight Washington bureaumen got a telephone call reminding them that they worked for the Inquirer, not for Dimitman...