TIME Changes

T. (for THOMAS) S. (for STANLEY) MATTHEWS resigned as editor of TIME to take a new editorial assignment from Henry R. Luce, editor in chief of TIME Inc. Matthews will survey the editorial possibilities of a TIME-in-Britain--a new creation which would grow out of the U.S. newsmagazine formula. Such a TIME-in-Britain, if Matthews' explorations prove fruitful, would be as major an innovation as LIFE EN ESPANOL (TIME, Dec. 29).

TIME already publishes four foreign editions--Canadian, Atlantic, Latin American and Pacific--which are basically composed of editorial material of the U.S. edition. Matthews came to TIME 23 years ago as book editor, was appointed managing editor in 1943 and editor six years later. In his new assignment, he will make his headquarters in the TIME & LIFE Building in London.

J. (for JOHN) DANA TASKER resigned as executive editor of TIME to join Cowles Magazines, Inc. (Look and Quick), where he will fill the new job of editorial director. Tasker, an Amherst graduate ('25) taught English and coached track at Deerfield Academy before he joined the Reader's Digest as an associate editor. He left for Newsweek, which he edited three years, joined TIME 15 years ago. He was named assistant managing editor in 1946 and executive editor in 1951. While on TIME, he has been editor of most of TIME'S departments at one time or another. Since 1939, he has had the chief responsibility for TIME'S pictures and makeup, and personally developed TIME'S distinctive style of cover portraiture. A year and a half ago, he was given the assignment of working out the present full-color picture program and the weekly NEWS IN PICTURES section.

Said Cowles Magazines' President Gardner Cowles in announcing Tasker's appointment: "He will be the top editorial executive in the company with responsibility for the proper functioning of the Look editorial department and the Quick editorial department."

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