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...bureau chiefs who direct the on-the-spot operations of TIME'S domestic and foreign news staffs, the most recently appointed is Robert W. Glasgow, a correspondent in TIME'S Chicago office for the past three years, and now head of our Toronto news bureau. Shortly before Glasgow took over his new Canadian post, he dropped by TIME'S New York office. In the course of our conversation we talked about some of the things that go into the making of a newsman...
...career of Bill Glasgow, reporter, a native of Warren, Ark., began at Hendrix College, Conway, Ark. As he recalls it: "I'm still baffled at what prompted me to get into this business, although I well remember when it happened. It was one day in the fall of 1933. The editor of the college paper issued a call for reporter candidates. Though I had never shown any interest in news beyond reading it, I suddenly found myself applying and being told that since I had no experience I would have to submit samples of my work...
...years after the biscuit story, Glasgow was working as editor of the Warren Eagle-Democrat at a time when the community was going through "an explosive, hectic time, caught squarely in the painful throes of a union effort to organize the local lumber mills." Says he: "I learned rather quickly that reporting is a bit more complicated and less benign than simply estimating biscuit consumption...
Last week, as it celebrated its 475th anniversary with a modest dinner in Manhattan (and no ceremony at all in London), the Press could boast branch offices in Melbourne, Toronto. Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Wellington, Karachi, Glasgow, Cape Town and Ibadan, as well as a whole separate corporation in the United States. It is the only book publisher with its own paper mill; it has the world's largest permanent catalogue (10,000 titles), (the largest stock 15 million volumes) and probably the biggest sales (nearly 10 million books a year from the British list alone). The grandfather...
...graduate of Glasgow University and Scotland's Royal Technical College (thanks to the generosity of a family friend). Abboud went to work as a junior engineer on an Iraq irrigation project, soon tired of it. "I said to myself: 'Ahmed, you are meant to be more than an engineer.' " In World War I, he set up a contracting business of his own, landed big contracts with the British army in Damascus, picked up other odd jobs in Beirut, Bagdad and Haifa. Back in Egypt after the war, Abboud decided to buck the foreign businessmen who then monopolized...