Third Man

For the two top editors of the Saturday Evening Post (circ. 4,577,727), the work load has been too much. Almost every night Editor Ben Hibbs, 53, and Managing Editor Robert Fuoss, 42, have lugged home briefcases stuffed with manuscripts to read until bedtime. Last week the Post's editors brought in some help. Fuoss will move up to the newly created post of executive editor, and the new managing editor will be Robert Lee Sherrod, 45, the Post's Far Eastern correspondent.

Said Editor Hibbs: "I hope to divide the pie of executive editorial duties into three slices. That will permit us to get around a little more." For Correspondent Sherrod, his rise to the managing editor's spot--and a salary estimated at $40,000 a year--has been fast. He left TIME Inc. to join the Post only 2 1/2 years ago, and the magazine got around to putting his name on the masthead as associate editor only last week.

A Georgia-born newspaperman. Sherrod joined TIME Inc. in 1935, helped set up TIME'S Washington bureau two years later.

Covering the Pacific war area for TIME and LIFE, Sherrod won a commendation for bravery for his first-ashore, front-line coverage, produced two of the war's outstanding books of reporting, Tarawa: The Story of a Battle, and On to Westward (translated, they became Japanese bestsellers). Back on his old beat as a correspondent in the Far East, he has written 24 articles in 17 countries for the Post over the past 2 1/2 years.

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