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...full-time correspondents in the U.S. and Canadian news bureaus and 35 in foreign bureaus located throughout the world. But to cover the news of the world each week, TIME also requires the part-time services of many other newsmen. These are TIME'S part-time or stringer correspondents. There are now 160 part-time correspondents for TIME in the U.S. and Canada, plus 112 overseas-experienced reporters in their own communities who watch for and report news of more than local interest...
...Some stringer correspondents eventually become regular TIME staff members. There are now ten staff members in New York and 14 correspondents in bureaus in the U.S. and abroad who got their early TIME training as part-time correspondents...
...newest stringer to join the masthead roster of full-time correspondents is Frank McCulloch of Reno. McCulloch is a Westerner who knows his West. He was born on a hay and cattle ranch, near Fernley, Nev., 33 years ago. Extracurricular grammar-school activity, he says, "consisted of fighting daily with a Mexican boy named Jesse Arenaz, and, in eight years of furious effort, never winning a scrap...
...story of an amiable boardinghouse landlady. Then she will rush back to Broadway for rehearsals of a new musical, By the Beautiful Sea, which is being written to order for her by Herbert and Dorothy (Annie Get Your Gun) Fields. After more than a quarter-century as a second-stringer in the theater, Shirley Booth is now the hottest thing in show business. She is suddenly the first lady of the American stage and screen...
...when he wrote a fantasy on what the monkeys in the zoo thought of William Jennings Bryan's role in the great evolution debate. He wrote the first story on the sensational attempt to rescue Floyd Collins, trapped in a Kentucky cavern. In 1933 Howland became a stringer-correspondent for TIME, and a staff correspondent in 1940, when he opened TIME'S Atlanta news bureau...