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...Bank of England), he was new to the old company when in 1931 he was called to be its governor to get it out of a financial jam. Today, Sir Patrick, 59, a big man with a glowing pink complexion, white toothbrush mustache and shaggy grey eyebrows, knows first-hand the many-sided operations of the company better than any of his predecessors. This week he is in Canada, to add to his knowledge...
Those of you who have had a chance to talk to businessmen home from Europe have undoubtedly benefited by their first-hand observations of the European scene, and have found that such a viewpoint provides a matter-of-fact, often illuminating postscript to the excellent reports of trained American journalists. A case in point is TIME's advertising director, Harry Phillips, who went to England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and The Netherlands to examine postwar business conditions there and to talk to exporters about advertising in TIME Inc.'s overseas editions. Some excerpts from his strictly personal report...
...legends told about the Northwest's Nahanni (Headless) Valley (TIME, Jan. 20) stirred up so much interest that the Vancouver Sun sent out its own explorers for a first-hand look. By last week the accounts of the travelers, Reporter Pierre Berton and Photographer Art Jones, had, to the surprise of no one, thoroughly shattered all the fantastic folklore of Headless Valley...
Recently returned from a meeting of the World Zionist Congress in Switzerland, Louis Lipsky, former member of the Executive of the Jewish Agency will present first-hand accounts of the internal crisis with Zionism tonight at 8 o'clock in Paine Hall...
...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 a first-hand knowledge of the kind of local coverage it takes to make the kind of national and world viewpoint that TIME strives...