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...interest, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, over lunch, conducted a candid tour of the diplomatic horizons the tour would cross. By the next night the businessmen-turned-journalists were in London, where at a late-hour briefing four of TIME'S key European correspondents-Robert T. Elson (London), Curtis Prendergast (Paris), James Bell (Bonn) and Israel Shenker (Moscow)-filled them in on the people they would see and the situations in the countries they would visit...
...bound to happen sooner or later. Though Robert Elson is TIME'S bureau chief in London, and his son John is TIME'S religion editor, they have had little chance to work together professionally-except as competitors. Last year, when Robert Elson was detached to write an article about Pope John for LIFE, Son John was writing a TIME cover story on the Pope, and, sighs the father, "his story beat me by two weeks." They were competitors again more recently on stories about the new Pope. But usually father concerns himself more, in his London TIME...
...London, partly because of the father-son relationship, Bureau Chief Elson generally stays away from religion stories. Father believes that he himself, after 39 years of journalism, may have the edge in news experience and judgment, but thinks his son "much better informed" in religion and better educated in philosophy (at Notre Dame). Son John similarly hesitated to work from his father's files: "We are both a little edgy about it." But there comes a time...
...this week's cover story on the Archbishop of Canterbury, the bulk of the London reporting came from Charles Champlin. But it was natural for the London bureau chief to add a few words about the church's role in today's morally troubled Britain. Elson also traveled down to a little village in Dorset, where in a book-lined study that looked like a stage setting for Trollope, he had an engaging interview with the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher. Son John read his father's file, then relaxed: "He's a good...
...this week's issue he will find them all, including a cover story on the Pope, written by Religion Editor John Elson and based on voluminous research filed from Rome by Bureau Chief Robert E. Jackson and Vatican Correspondent Robert B. Kaiser, who fortnight ago was honored for the "best magazine reporting of foreign affairs" by the Overseas Press Club in New York. Along with these main stories are special reports growing out of the news-a guide to the major Negro organizations battling for civil rights, and a closer look at what Britain's Labor Party would...