Word: perret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks after his gift subscription to TIME began, a Marine sergeant stationed at the U.S. consulate in Rabat, French Morocco, got a phone call. At first he thought it was a practical joke. Said the voice on the wire: "My name is Paul Perret. I'm from TIME. and I'd like to know whether your magazine has been getting to you when it should...
...phone call was no practical joke. Paul Ferret's job is to see that the sergeant in Rabat-and all other TIME readers in the U.S. armed forces in England, Europe and North Africa-get their copies regularly. A journalism graduate of Tulane University, Paul Perret is military circulation representative for TIME-LIFE International, and his assignment, which began last October, has already taken him some 25,000 miles by car, plane, train (and, in emergency, by thumb) all over England, the NATO countries of Europe, down through Austria and Italy to French Morocco...
...magazine to military readers. TIME uses the established distribution facilities of Air Force Times, and also Stars and Stripes. It is Perret's job to unsnarl the ever occurring transportation snags, and to solve the multitude of snafus that occur in the complicated business of distributing promptly each week thousands of copies of TIME to 550 military newsstands...
...sidetracked by faulty freight handling. With the help of the local Stars and Stripes men, this problem was soon ironed out. In another case, faster delivery to Germany was solved in Paris. Previously the magazines were shipped in bulk to Frankfurt, where mail is sorted for the U.S. zone. Perret arranged to have issues of TIME sacked and addressed in Paris for individual APO designations, thereby saving further handling and delay in Frankfurt...