Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsa Maxwell, plump, professional party-planner turned columnist, was tickled when Photographer Leora Thompson assured her that she had an "exuberant"-looking leg. She exulted: "Really, it's not so bad. There may be a lot more of it than necessary, but. . . I don't know-any fat women with legs that can compare with mine...
TIME'S office in Moscow is a big room with a balcony on the fourth floor of the rambling old Metropole Hotel (ten minutes from the Foreign Office, five minutes from the Kremlin)-and Thompson will find the grind there tough. A correspondent in Moscow is likely to work long & hard, what with few Russian executives getting to their offices before two in the afternoon, and an appointment for eleven at night only too common...
This is an assignment that might stump a less experienced reporter-but Thompson, now 37, is a veteran foreign correspondent who started covering World War II almost from its beginning, during the Blitz in London. At home and abroad he worked 20 years for U.S. papers-gathered and wrote just about every kind of news "because I wanted to make myself an all around newsman." That background should stand him in good stead in Russia, where he will have to report not just diplomacy and war but the growth of a whole, new civilization...
...Thompson will have able assistants in the two Russian girls who are part of TIME'S permanent staff in Moscow: dark-eyed, intelligent Nina Moustel and little Gallya the Courier, who is 21, has two children, and a husband in the Red Army she has not heard from in almost three years. Multilingual Nina (Russian, English, German, French) headed the staff of the scientific library at Moscow University before she became secretary to TIME-in-Moscow; Gallya's main job is to get our correspondent's reports to the Foreign Office for censoring (that takes anywhere from...
When Hersey was in Moscow his cables to TIME & LIFE ran as high as 16,425 words a week-enough to fill almost half of TIME. So a lot of news should be flowing across the Atlantic from Thompson and his staff from...