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...settled TIME'S problem. Here was a story so far outside the experience of any editor that it had to be covered at firsthand. TIME & LIFE sent scores of men to the newsfronts and battlefronts of the world. TIME gave its readers firsthand reports and, at the same time, discovered that one of the most important contributions it could make toward war information was the overall view, the weekend summary of the war's perspective. This was usually the first story in the World Battlefronts section, and was always written in the New York office. A typical story...
Cruikshank (1792-1878) was the first important British artist to make a living from book illustration. His father had been a caricaturist, and by the age of twelve, George had a job etching plates and filling in details for him. His firsthand knowledge of London's low life was to enrich Dickens' Oliver Twist for generations of readers (Cruikshank's Fagin, G. K. Chesterton once remarked, looked as if Fagin himself had done it). Few could recall Cruikshank's later illustrations for Uncle Tom's Cabin or the series of etchings entitled simply The Bottle...
...last-minute attempt to unravel the aid-to-China knot, the Senate Appropriations Committee last week summoned the man best qualified to present some firsthand facts. He was Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, whose report on his China mission had been locked up in State Department files ever since his return 14 weeks ago (TIME, Sept...
...Tihua's Sino-Soviet airport who said he wanted no pictures taken because "the airport is in bad repair and it would give a bad impression if printed in the magazine." After considerable argument Gruin was allowed to take two shots, carefully outlined before snapping. Then, for a firsthand view of the area where Chinese and Mongolian troops had been having a border fracas, they trucked across the gravel wasteland north of Tihua to Peitashan, a mountain oasis. Of this journey, Gruin wrote...
...looked like just a good time at the taxpayers' expense. But at least one was dead serious. Under the leadership of Massachusetts' Representative Christian Herter, who has made himself an expert on foreign relief problems, 19 Congressmen picked from 15 regular House committees will sail for a firsthand look at foreign needs and potentialities under the Marshall plan...