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...that definition hardly holds true at TIME, not these days. For in this sixth winter of World War II we have in our home office correspondents from every front, helping our editors get the firsthand feel of the news into every story. And from the TIME & LIFE Building our editors are constantly going out to the fronts, to find out for themselves - often at the risk of their lives - just what the war is like and what it means to the men who are living and fighting...
...there is hardly a fighting front or a diplomatic front all around the world that at least one of our writers here at home can't tell you about from firsthand recent experience of events and personalities thousands of miles away...
...Bishop Berggrav and the church martyrs of Norway (TiME, Dec. 25). I know, for it has been my job (in Public Relations and as assistant to the Commanding Officer of the Norwegian Air Force) for three and a half years to hear the stories of Norway's martyrdom firsthand. At night, in the bare, cold barracks, in darkness except for the light shining on my notebook, I have recorded hundreds of stories that might have inspired such a spiritual as Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? Through one of our flyers there is for me a particularly...
...important books-The War at Sea ("a masterly work" said The Nation) and America's Navy in World War II (The New Republic's reviewer called it "as fine a piece of current history as I have ever read"). No armchair admiral, he knows sea warfare firsthand-steamed up to Jap-held Vella Lavella to help rescue the cruiser Helena's survivors after the Battle of Kula Gulf - was one of the first five white men to reach Munda airport (he got there 24 hours before our troops marched in) -and in the first raid on Marcus...
Cook talked with dozens of Marines, heard their firsthand stories of Bloody Ridge and Coffin Corner and Hill 660, looked at their snapshots, dodged around them as they wrestled in the aisles, joined in when they sang Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah...