Dear TIME-Reader:

SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER, this week's cover subject, started to introduce Correspondent Donald S. Connery to Democratic Press Secretary Clayton Fritchey one day last week. Said the Senator: "You know Mr. Connery . . ." Nodding, Fritchey interrupted: "Of course. He's your Boswell, isn't he?" Kefauver grinned: "Yes, but he's better than Boswell."

Don Connery, who has been a correspondent in our Chicago bureau, first met the tall Tennesseean when they piled into a small plane together early last winter for a Wisconsin primary campaign tour. He covered the Senator during most of the primaries, stayed with him through the Democratic Convention in Chicago and picked him up again in the initial phase of his vice presidential campaign. While keeping pace with one of the most tireless campaigners the U.S. has ever known, Connery managed to find time to sniff out side stories and to interview the owners of the hands that shook The Hand.

He lost track of his subject only once: during a blinding New Jersey rainstorm, he became detached from the official caravan of long black limousines and began to trail another file of long black limousines until he discovered that he was bringing up the rear of a funeral procession.

Early this week, with his Kefauver assignment completed, Connery stopped in Chicago long enough to greet his wife and two small children, pick up some clean shirts and head for

Pittsburgh. The reason you may notice in the addition to the adjoining masthead : TIME is opening a new U.S. news bureau, the eleventh to be established since TIME'S first permanent editorial outpost was set up in Chicago in 1929 (before that, Henry Cabot Lodge, now U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., had been a part-time correspondent in Washington). Don Connery is the new Pittsburgh bureau chief.

Don, who was born 30 years ago on Long Island, started in journalism as a copy boy for the old New York Sun. There he ran errands for the late Grantland Rice, and John Kieran helped him with his math homework. At the end of World War II he was a newscaster and disk jockey for the armed forces radio stations in the Philippines. Back home, he covered the U.N. for the United Press before he enrolled at Harvard. Graduated in 1950, Connery worked for a year in the university's news office, then joined TIME. Ranging out of our Chicago bureau, he has sent us many memorable news reports and supplied material for cover stories on Brooklyn's Roy Campanella (TIME, Aug. 8, 1955), TV's Ed Sullivan (TIME, Oct. 17), and Architect Eero Saarinen (TIME, July 2).

Covering Pittsburgh, TIME staffers have been regular visitors. But now with Connery, a reporter of inexhaustible energy and curiosity in our newest bureau, we take up residence in the booming city at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela.

Cordially yours,

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