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

You find TIME in some strange places these days--now that we are printing special editions on every continent of the world (except Antarctica).

It starts its journey to thousands of servicemen of the China-Burma-India command on the heads of coffee-colored Indian porters --see cut.

On Apamama Island in the Gilberts Correspondent "Pepper" Martin found dusky Agnes Murdoch and her nieces reading TIME, learned with some surprise that Agnes reads TIME cover-to-cover each week--see cut. (Half-Polynesian, half-English Mrs. Murdoch studied for seven years at the Sisters of Mercy convent in San Francisco--is the mother of four sons, one of them Chief of Apamama at 28.)

The arrival of TIME is awaited each week at the Irish Bankers Club in Dublin--at the Mission of Seventh Day Adventists in Nigeria, West Africa--at the Executive Mansion in Monrovia, Liberia--at Abdine Palace in Cairo (where it goes addressed to the Royal Cabinet).

Among TIME'S regular readers are three bimbashis (majors in the Egyptian army) whose job is to keep peace in the unpeaceful Sudan. In Wales, believe it or not, lives TIME subscriber Mona Lisa--in Howrah, India, Swami Gangeshananda is a subscriber--and in the far-away Fijis TIME is read each week by President John Quincy Adams.

Though transportation is difficult, a few copies get through to Moscow-- and there are two civilian subscribers in Greenland, two others in Bechuanaland. A copy of every issue travels the length of the Atlantic to a physician in the bleak Falklands, and another goes to a bishop whose diocese is the dank jungles of Belize. There is one TIME subscriber on St. Helena who sometimes gets a whole year's copies at once--and one subscriber each in the Canary, Fanning and Society Islands.

Other TIME subscribers are fighting yellow fever in Uganda, mining tin in Bolivia, teaching inside China. One is a customs inspector at Dar-es-Salaam; another is the President of Finland.

But the most unexpected subscriber of all I learned about in a letter from a former MARCH OF TIME man now with the armed forces in Iran: "Recently I witnessed one of the great nomadic migrations that take place every year when thousands of human beings and hundreds of thousands of animals migrate from the southern plateaus to the mountains in the north (just as their ancestors did thousands of years ago). I became chummy with the Khan of the tribe, one Fatula Poor Satib. He asked me to autograph something for him. And what do you think he pulled from his robe as he sat astride his big, white, handsome horse? Nothing else but a copy of TIME."

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