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...scholarly veteran of World War II with impressive credentials in his field. Peter Draz, 42, a graduate of Denison University in Ohio, also holds master's degrees in history (University of Pennsylvania) and library science (Western Reserve). Draz came to Time Inc. after a 61-year stint at the Library of Congress, where he headed the Reader Service Section of the Manuscript Division and later the Public Refer ence Section of the General Refer ence and Bibliography Division...
...Victory carried munitions across the Pacific in the closing months of World War II. In 1950 she was reactivated to haul materiel for the Korean War. After a brief stint transporting grain to India, she was retired again. Last week the Red Oak, one of 101 Victory ships dragged out of mothballs for service in Viet Nam, was ready to sail again after a $400,000 refit and new coat of grey paint. For her rededication, Red Oak Mayor Joseph Tiffin flew to Portland, Ore., with a specially stitched town flag, which Captain Robert Blood will hoist when the ship...
...John Joseph Broderick came by his talents naturally enough. He grew up in Manhattan's East 20s, the Gashouse district, and while many of his neighbors were learning how to be thugs, Johnny, fresh from parochial school, was driving a brick truck at the age of twelve. A stint in the World War I Navy and a few months as a fireman convinced him that he was not cut out for such tame endeavors. The pug-faced Irishman joined the cops in 1923. "Gimme a gangster, give him a gun, and leave the rest to me," he used...
Threadbare Tires. A onetime editor of the Daily Princetonian, Ridgeway, 29, put in a stint on the Wall Street Journal before coming to the New Republic. He makes sure that he ge'ts his facts correct and avoids the doctrinaire "New Left" politics that fills much of the rest of the magazine. "I don't think things should be cast in black and white," he says. "These subjects are complicated and difficult to get at. What I want to do is take a point of view that is unreported and provide people with that different perspective...
Once the cover story was scheduled, Saporiti and Gavin Scott, who is joining the Madrid staff after a three-year stint as Buenos Aires bureau chief, went to work. Over the next several weeks, together with the bureau's Jean Bratton, they covered the countryside, interviewed scores of Spaniards, high and low, to get a wide-angle look at the new Spain. For two weeks they were joined by Writer John Blashill, who was TIME'S correspondent in Madrid for four years (1956-60). To catch the visual aspects, Senior Editor Peter Bird Martin, who handles color projects...