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...Atlantic Clipper brought Mary Welsh back from TIME'S London office last Friday on her first trip home since Hitler marched on Poland...
...went by Clipper the long way round—across the Atlantic and up through Russia's threatened backdoor. Next winter he hopes to come out again through Turkestan and Siberia. By then the outcome of the whole war may well have been decided on the steppes—and Graebner will have played a vital part in keeping its story in TIME clear and knowing and authentic...
Last week, for instance, just as the editors started to work on this issue, Senior Editor Wertenbaker, head of the Foreign News and World Battlefronts sections, stepped off the Atlantic Clipper from England-where he had spent five weeks renewing his first-hand knowledge of what Britain and Britain's leaders are thinking and doing...
...scriptwriter for MGM, she wanted help to get a passport to China. Jacoby spent a week wire-pulling, announced one day to his mother: "That girl's damn smart." She got the passport and a publicity job in Chungking. Jacoby went on his way to Chungking by Clipper, was hired by TIME. Once after a bad air raid he wrote to discourage her coming, saying Chungking was no place for a woman. At the bottom of the letter he penciled: "P.S. Hurry...
...must have concern for children above all," Jones said, since it is among them that famine takes its greatest toll. Widespread rickets among European children is being combated with vitamin concentrates, formerly shipped in five gallon lots via clipper, and now obtained in Denmark...