To answer some of the questions our subscribers have been asking about how TIME gathers, verifies, writes and distributes its news.

Maybe you'd like to see what some of our editors look like at work.

This is Henry Luce, who still works just as hard at editing as he did twenty years ago when we had only six full-time editors instead of 51, often does not leave the office until long after midnight.

This is Manfred Gottfried, who was TIME'S first editorial employe back in 1923. Six years National Affairs Editor, six years Managing Editor of TIME, three years Associate Editor of FORTUNE, Gottfried, now 43, is Co-Editor. So much of the news of the past two decades has passed across his desk that most writers expect him to know everything.

This is Managing Editor T. S. Matthews. Oxford and Princeton alumnus, onetime TIME book-reviewer, he became junior Managing Editor for the so-called "critical departments" in 1937, switched to National Affairs in 1939, early this year took full operating command. His backbreaking job includes the final editing of every line of copy. He is a hound for making sure that the writers say what they mean to say.

This is Eric Hodgins, TIME'S Editorial Vice President, who was first Managing Editor, then Publisher of FORTUNE, before that was Managing Editor of the Youth's Companion, Associate Editor of Redbook. A graduate engineer, Hodgins is co-author of several widely-read scientific books. The New Yorker calls him "thin-haired, orbicular."

This is Patricia Divver, who heads up the 39 researchers who must check every word TIME prints to make sure it is straight and true and reliable. Before she came to TIME she was one of the three ranking Editors of FORTUNE.

This is Sidney Olson, at 35 a veteran newspaper man, former City Editor of the Washington Post, for three years top political writer for TIME, now Senior Editor for U. S. at War, Business & Finance, Press.

This is Senior Editor Dana Tasker, all-around executive assistant to the managing editor. His biggest single job is to make sure we have the right pictures and maps to help you visualize the news and to work with Artists Artzybasheff, Baker and Chaliapin on TIME'S cover paintings.

And this is Charles Wertenbaker, Senior Editor for Foreign News and World Battlefronts, longtime Associate Editor of FORTUNE, now TIME'S most traveled editorial executive. He has only recently flown back from four months at the front in Tunisia, last year visited both Britain and South America to get the firsthand feel of the overseas news for you.

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