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Writer Bill McHale is back in BUSINESS & FINANCE after three months' work for another weekly magazine, the London Economist. He didn't quit; he wasn't fired; he was lent, from TIME...
...lend-lease plan under which McHale worked began as an idea of T. S. Matthews, editor of TIME. In London one day last spring, Matthews had a talk with Geoffrey Crowther, editor of the Economist. Crowther agreed to give one of our writers "house room," but modestly insisted that he saw no way in which TIME would benefit. Matthews replied that he'd take the chance. So began McHale's tour of duty on the 117-year-old British publication...
Meanwhile, he took a look at British industrial plants, and lived in London with wife Connie, an ex-WAVE. McHale liked the easy informality at the Economist, which, like TIME, is a "first-name outfit." The English writers were always ready for a 20-minute chat on any subject, from the sad state of African groundnuts to the poor taste of American movies. Said he: "They speak with such conviction, fluency and lucidity, even when they are talking absolute tripe...
...Before McHale left, Crowther stamped the experiment a success by picking one of his men to send over in October to begin a writing hitch on TIME. We look forward to this chance to repay the Economist's hospitality...
...McHALE Detroit...