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

Ten of TIME's editors, writers and researchers listed over there at the left started their journalistic careers straight from high school--but 234 other editorial people on TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE represent 18 foreign universities and 99 in this country.

They range all the way from little Emerson College in Boston (182 students) to giant Columbia University with 22,920--so if you are a college graduate yourself the chances are that one or more of our editorial people studied in the same classrooms you did and learned Latin and algebra, English and history from some of the same professors who taught you.

We think it is important that colleges in 32 states and the District of Columbia have contributed at least one graduate to our staffs--for having so many different academic backgrounds helps us tell our national news in the round--and helps us report our state news to the nation with the true idiom, flavor and perspective.

From the South, for example, we have graduates of Tulane, Southwestern, Southern Methodist, Louisiana State, Charleston, Centre, Baylor--the Universities of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

The West is represented by Stanford (6), California and Washington (3 each), Colorado (2) and one each from U.C.L.A., Whittier, Claremont, Scripps, Occidental and the Universities of Utah, Denver, Oklahoma and Idaho.

Thirty-nine of our editorial people went to college in the Middle West--and this group sometimes made our offices pretty hectic when the football season was in full swing. Six came to us from Wisconsin, four each from Missouri and Nebraska, three each from Northwestern, Chicago, Western Reserve and Michigan. And 13 other Mid-Western colleges and universities have each sent us one.

When TIME began in 1923 our first issue listed 16 editors and contributors, of whom eleven had graduated (not so long before) from Yale. Two of these eleven are TIME's top editors today, and we have 14 other Yale men with us now. But we are also indebted to some 50 other Eastern colleges for members of our staff--Columbia (21), Harvard (18), Princeton (6), Dartmouth (5), Pennsylvania (3), Brown (3), Swarthmore (3), Cornell (3)-- Williams, Wesleyan, Trinity, Johns Hopkins, Penn State and M.I.T., to name only a few.

Outside the East most of our women editors and researchers were co-eds counted above--but most of the women's colleges are represented here too: Smith (17 graduates), Vassar (12), Wellesley (9), Radcliffe (6), Bryn Mawr (5)--Sweet Briar, Mount Holyoke, Hunter, Skidmore and Sarah Lawrence.

Nine of our editors have a Ph.D., and no fewer than 21 studied in Europe--five in England (most of them at Oxford), four in France (the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris), four in Germany (Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig)-- three in Austria, two in Switzerland, one in Ireland, one in Italy-- and one at the Engineering Institute in Magnitogorsk, Russia.

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