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...responsible for the "melancholy exhibition" are two top Timesmen, both wild radicals by comparison with their staid predecessors. Bald, well-tailored Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward, 53, editor since 1941, is a deceptively mild-appearing man who gives "first place to second thoughts." The man who wrote the offending editorial on British policy in Greece, and ten like it since, has been on the Times only four months- but he is regarded as the most up & coming journalist in Fleet Street. He is able, amiable Donald Tyerman, 36, accountant's son who has been partly paralyzed since...
Even to most Timesmen, Strunsky is little known. He inhabits a paneled office on the Times building's hushed, neo-Gothic tenth floor, sacred to editorial writers and the library, and referred to by reporters in the bustling city room on the third floor as "Heaven." He summers in New Canaan, Conn., winters on Fifth Avenue, lives almost wholly for his work...
...taken toll of the Times foreign staff. Crack Correspondent Byron Darnton was accidentally killed in New Guinea. Robert Post failed to return from a bomber trip over Wilhelmshaven. Fred Wilkins, long the Times's Manila correspondent, is a Jap prisoner. Other able, famed Timesmen, like Otto Tolischus (author of the recent Tokyo Record) and Hallett Abend (Ramparts of the Pacific), are now in the U.S. because the countries they covered are enemy-held...
Chessmen. Timesmen are by no means perfect. Daniel Brigham, in Switzerland, has often been fooled by German propaganda and has repeatedly missed accuracy, spurred by phony tips and his own imagination...
...from 203,000 (prewar) to 167,000. But demand is far above that, despite a price increase from tuppence to threepence. Although it once printed a quarter-million words an issue, the Times, now paper-rationed to ten pages, does not complain of paper rationing. But privately, of course, Timesmen see little sense, or justice, in the fact that the Times, which is in a class by itself, should be rationed as severely as the mass-circulation sensational press...