Word: manthorp
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Right now we have sixteen TIME & LIFE correspondents, editors, writers and cameramen slated for foreign assignment-so multiply your own imaginary travel difficulties by sixteen, and I think you will see why Jack Manthorp has a full-time job here just helping our editors get quickly to where they need to go overseas...
Before a correspondent can even apply for a passport he must get permission from his local draft board to leave the country-and after the passport comes through the visa rush begins. Manthorp got one correspondent visas for thirteen countries in a single day, but some governments are not so easy. For example, no visa for India is granted without a cabled O.K. from New Delhi, and Portugal is even harder...
...Manthorp also helps each man buy the right correspondent's uniform for the climate he will work in (average cost $358). He sees that they get the right inoculations against as many as nine diseases-typhoid, paratyphoid, smallpox, tetanus for everywhere-plus yellow fever and typhus for the South Pacific or Africa-plus cholera, bubonic and pulmonic plague for Asia (the tetanus inoculations alone take 42 days). And through Lloyds of London we take out a $25,000 personal insurance policy for each TIME traveler...
...correspondent carries a camera, Manthorp must register it with the customs. And the censors must have a look at any printed matter-even dictionaries and travel guides-that our man may want to take along...