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TIME'S office in London (by far the largest maintained in Britain by any American publisher) must be a very different place to work these days than it was only a few months ago (maybe you'll remember the cable from Walter Graebner that began: "A buzzbomb just flew past our window, looked in, saw no crowd and proceeded up the street. Cor, if ever a man suffered . . ."). And before that, of course, there was the airblitz ("You're simply not one of the crowd unless a bomb has blown up in your garden...
Ever since Russia came into the war we have had top-flight correspondents there-first Walter Graebner, our No. 1 man in Europe; then Richard Lauterbach; and finally John Hersey. Each was a shrewd and trained observer who brought home with him a uniquely firsthand feel of Russia at war to share with our other editors -and to give authenticity to all our reports on that enigmatic country...
...Britain comes the man who has been our top correspondent there almost continuously since 1938 (except for his five critical months in Russia as head of our Moscow office and the month he spent jeeping across North Africa with Montgomery's triumphant Eighth Army) -London Bureau Chief Walter Graebner...
...TIME'S London bureau had a close one. Cabled Bureau Chief Walter Graebner: "The other night one of the bombs flew past our window looked in, saw no crowd and proceeded up the street. Cor, if ever a man suffered...
...flew to France in General Brereton's transport," Graebner reported. "Then Generals Brereton and Royce, Air Marshals Coningham and Bottomley and I piled into a jeep and command car and headed up the peninsula along the long straight road to Cherbourg. Later we flew along the American and British lines. Allied fighter bombers and rocket-carrying Typhoons screeched and screamed across the sky just south of our plane...