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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These documents are, in effect, an updating of the national scene for the benefit of TIME'S editors, whose work week begins on Thursday. The Story List, which reaches their desks along with the story suggestions from our other 27 bureaus at home & abroad, is the Washington bureau's idea of what stories from the nation's capital TIME'S forthcoming issue should carry and what background and information the bureau's 17 correspondents can supply for them. The Memorandum is an attempt to fill in our editors on what has been going on behind...
Together, Story List and Memorandum are a kind of TIME in miniature. Although Washington bureaumen mainly have their eyes on the news of politics and foreign affairs, they are also responsible for the news of medicine, art, science, education, etc. that the capital makes. To keep up-to-date on what has happened and is going to happen in his field (Treasury, State Department, Army & Navy, etc.) each correspondent spends most of his week going his separate way, interviewing sources, etc.-which may include, as it did recently, an assignment to Bikini or a political depth-sounding junket into Pennsylvania...
Gradually, as stories are accepted, rejected, or postponed for ripening, the week's Story List is made. When all ideas are exhausted, staff members type up .their agreed-on story suggestions...
Later, if one of his offerings ends up on the editor's story list for that issue, it is up to the correspondent who offered it to supply the facts...
Paradoxically, then, a waiting list still exists, while nearly 100 units at Harvardevens and 25 suites at the Brunswick remain vacant. The University has attempted to do its part leaving, perhaps, part of the blame on the shoulders of students themselves, who are shopping around for something better, hoping that the Housing office will find it for them. But more exactly, the blame may rest in the fact that a depreciated 90 per month goes only a certain, short distance in an inflationary postwar United States...