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...Honor of Gaston Le Torch, by Jacques Perret, was one of the most charming extravaganzas of the year, a pleasant escapist whimsy about a Gallic Walter Mitty...
...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...
...Perret also works closely with the Army and Fleet Postal Officers on military subscription problems. When he visited Naples recently, the Fleet Postal Officer commented on the speed with which TIME keeps up with the movement of Navy ships from one FPO to another. Ferret explained that TIME'S worldwide publication of five editions makes it logistically easy to keep up with a wandering Navy vessel. For example, if a sailor's ship is in the Mediterranean or the North Sea, he would get the Atlantic edition. If he moved into the Pacific, he would get either...
...short, the object of our circulation department is to make TIME just as available to the men serving over seas as it is to civilians at home. Says Perret: "We've been lucky enough to get delivery service in most places to the point where it's so much like home that we get quick gripes on the rare occasions when the magazine does arrive late." Perret, who makes the Paris office of TIME-LIFE International his home operating base, does most of his traveling now in a small French Simca and has had his share of minor...