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NEARLY all TIME stories are written and edited in New York by staff members working with reports sent in by correspondents all over the world. This week's cover story on Canada's next Prime Minister, Lester Pearson, is an exception. It was written and edited in Montreal by our Canada staff, which is manning a unique outpost in TIME'S editorial operation...
...Montreal staff produces each week for the Canada edition a special section, usually four pages, of Canadian news. Launched in 1944, the Canada section, like all others, was written and edited in New York until last May, when we decided that, as a special addition to the magazine for one part of the world, it should move closer to its subject. Editor of the section is John M. Scott, 33, a native of Vancouver, who was a reporter for the Sherbrooke (Quebec) Daily Record and the Montreal Gazette, and wrote for TIME in New York for five years before...
Reporting on Canada to John Scott and his staff of writers and researchers are twoscore correspondents, including bureaus in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Calgary. For this week's cover story, the biggest reporting job was done by Ottawa Bureau Chief John Beal, an old TIME hand, who was a correspondent in our Washington bureau for 15 years, and who is author of John Foster Dulles, a biography of the late Secretary of State. In the course of reporting the Pearson story, Beal got many new insights, including an opportunity to study Pearson's never-released diary...
...sausages in the Hamilton, Ont., branch of Armour & Co. (he was later to be accused by the Soviet news agency, Tass, of starting his career in an armaments factory). Saturdays, he played third base for the semi-pro Guelph Maple Leafs. "No batter," says Teammate Dink Carroll, now a Montreal Gazette sports columnist, "but a good glove man." When promoted to clerkship in Armour's Chicago fertilizer works, he applied for, and got, a scholarship to Oxford...
...songs in the past 20 years, and an average of five a year have reached France's Top Ten. As singer and performer, he has packed the Olympia in Paris. Carnegie Hall in New York, and last week he was packing the Comédie-Canadienne in Montreal on the start of a world tour. As a result of all this, plus a career as movie star (Shoot the Piano Player) and music publisher. he has acquired two chateaux, a flight of sports cars and $2,000,000. And, as a philosopher, by his own gay admission...