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...overripe opinion sheet, filled with Yalemen, an inflated sense of its infallibility, and an intense desire to diddle at President-making. For every reader who admires the reporting and commentary of a staff that has included men like John Horsey, Theodore White, John Scott and Robert Sherrod, there is at least another who shudders at the forced cliches and elephantine ponderosities of "TIME-style" and gags at the thought of swallowing the Luce line, prepared with infinite cunning in the TIMEdifice in Rockefeller Center...
...Tarawa last week TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod came upon a story oj incredible human endurance, the saga of a Gilbert Islands native who sailed 2,000 miles across the lonesome stretches of the South Pacific in a canoe. Nabetari's feat, unequaled in the lore of oceanic survival, has been officially confirmed. The story that follows is a simple English version prepared for translation into Gilbertese, which has only a 400-word vocabulary...
...process of meeting and sizing up most of the newsworthy people in his territory, Sherrod interviewed Mahatma Gandhi, who told him with a twinkle in his eye: "I had assumed that Americans were to be the new citizens of the world, but I find them all homesick lads." Gandhi's opponent, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, leader of the Moslems, was not so easy to get to. In fact, he wanted a year's subscription to TIME as the price of an interview...
Like almost everything else in the postwar Far East, transportation-like communications, a correspondent's lifeline-is a shambles. Says Sherrod: "Covering a war was fairly simple, provided, of course, you lived through it. There were public relations officers to make your reservations, and nobody worried about priorities because the admirals and generals wanted their war covered. Nowadays, it is every man for himself, and it is a fight from beginning...
...instance, Sherrod tried for three days to buy a plane ticket for a quick trip from New Delhi, India, to Shanghai (via Calcutta and Manila). When he finally located the Air Transport Command officer and gave him money for the passage, the ATCman promptly lost it. So Sherrod bought another ticket and got to the airport just in time to watch his plane taking off (they had given him the wrong departure time). In Calcutta, nobody had even heard of his reservation for Manila. There, he found that his China visa had not arrived and, to make things more difficult...