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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...
Married. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 25, handsome, taciturn elder son of the one-time U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, for 19 months a P.W. in Germany (after his B-17 was shot down over Münster); and Janine Perret, 24, a Swiss girl he met nine years ago; in Geneva...
...works had been hit-but the Citroën. Peugeot, Delahaye and Hispano-Suiza works, also humming away on war materials for Germany, had not. Near Paris, French optical firms are making tank periscopes, range finders, telescopic gun sights and other fire-control equipment for the Germans. At Levallois-Perret and La Courneuve, French armorers are making 25-and 47-mm. guns. The big Schneider plant at Le Creusot makes machine-gun barrels, jackets, breech blocks and screws. Before the surprise raid on Renault, the Germans used to brag that 80% of French production was helping the Axis war effort...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Volcanoes and Volcanic Action." (Illustrated.) Mr. Frank A. Perret, of Naples, Italy; to be followed by a discussion in which the Professors of Geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts College and Harvard University will take part. Geological Lecture Room...