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There, the collective intelligence of the staff is fitted together to get an intimate picture of what is going on in Washington that week. Ed Lockett, TIME'S White House man, usually leads off with his outline of what the President is doing and will do, his mood, what the men around him say. Bureau Chief Robert Elson may take over from there, filling in the outline with information he picked up at a background conference in the State Department. Each reporter "sings" in turn: Frank McNaughton, who watches Congress like a hawk, to predict the fate...
...with copy on the coast's present situation. Still needed was an examination of the part that Giannini and his sprawling banking system had played and would play in it. Giannini was sunning himself at Palm Beach. Our nearest staff correspondent (Atlanta) was sick; so we sent Ed Lockett, one of our Washington bureau's most experienced reporters, to get Giannini's side of the story. Unable to find a plane seat on such short notice, Lockett took the night train. On the way he read through a stack of material he picked up on the Giannini...
...From Lockett on, the Giannini cover procedure is pretty complicated. To try to simplify it, I asked one of our artists to draw the diagram you see. What it means is that in order to give one of our National Affairs writers, Paul O'Neil, all the information he needed we called on our Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington bureaus to interview the people who could supply it, put our researchers here in Manhattan to work culling the material we already had in our morgue and supplementing it with local interviews...
...only casualty in this involved process was Lockett, who had to interview Giannini on the wide-open sun deck of his hotel and on the unsheltered Florida beaches. "Oh," said Giannini, "you'll tan." Lockett knew better. As usual, he just burned and peeled...
These were a few of the details of a story, carefully withheld for security reasons, which the Army only began to let out last week. Back from a trip to Antwerp, TIME Correspondent Edward Lockett this week brought a fuller story...