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Most of you have already read TIME'S accounts of the recent tours of New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio's Robert A. Taft. Our correspondents who accompanied them were Robert Elson, chief of Time Inc.'s Washington bureau, and Win Booth, who ordinarily covers the White House. By comparison with the usual grand tours of Presidential nominees after the Republican and Democratic conventions, these tours were in the nature of family excursions. Nevertheless, says Elson, who went along with the Taft party, "Booth and I got closer to the men, their families...
Young Clevelanders were there, too-198 representatives of the Council's forums in 22 Cleveland secondary schools. They came-armed with research, arguments and ideas-to discuss current affairs at three special sessions with three TiMEmen (Foreign Editor Max Ways, Washington Bureau Chief Robert Elson, Berlin Bureau Chief John Scott). Later, they were to report back to their student assemblies on what had been said. Ways, Elson and Scott, who got a Grade-A goingover, found them a highly informed and knowledgeable audience...
...together to get an intimate picture of what is going on in Washington that week. Ed Lockett, TIME'S White House man, usually leads off with his outline of what the President is doing and will do, his mood, what the men around him say. Bureau Chief Robert Elson may take over from there, filling in the outline with information he picked up at a background conference in the State Department. Each reporter "sings" in turn: Frank McNaughton, who watches Congress like a hawk, to predict the fate of an important bill; Anatole Visson to relate some unusual doings...
Coast bureau head, Sidney James. Later, when U.N. reassembled in London for its first formative meeting, our continuity of coverage was upheld by John Osborne, new London bureau head, who, as Foreign News and International editor, had handled the San Francisco copy of Elson, Ways...
...Elson's only assistant at U.N. in The Bronx is Visson-but he has a very important function. Russian-born and a onetime European journalist, he has the job of seeing that we get the full drama and feel of the meeting. You have to hear the delegates speak and know what they are saying in their own tongues to catch the full flavor and sharpness of the debate. It also helps to be able to talk to them between sessions in their own languages...