A DISTINGUISHED statesman is joining the TIME Inc. family this week, and I would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest colleague, Henry Cabot Lodge. In a very real sense, this is a homecoming for Ambassador Lodge, who was TIME'S first stringer-correspondent, working out of Washington in 1924, when the magazine was but a year old.

Well-known to TIME readers in his days as U.S. Senator, as Ambassador to the U.N. and as the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1960, Cabot Lodge has been on the cover of TIME three times: Dec. 17, 1951; Aug. n, 1958; Sept. 26, 1960. Ambassador Lodge will work closely with Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce and President James A. Linen on a "variety of missions of corporate concern" in the U.S. and abroad.

VISITORS to the Reception Center of the TIME and LIFE Building these next few weeks may feast their eyes on a majestic sight: a full-color photographic reproduction (one-third scale) of Michelangelo's great frescoes in the Sistine Chapel at Rome. The Sistine ceiling depicts the Creation, the Fall of Man and the Flood; an altar wall shows the Last Judgment.

TIME readers and their friends who may be in New York over the Easter holidays are especially welcome to come and see this illumination of a Renaissance masterwork. The exhibition is open through April 12.

READERS will find new section headings up front in TIME this week. Gone are the old familiar National Affairs and Foreign News. The new headings, for simplicity's sake, henceforth will be: The Nation, The World, The Hemisphere.

AMONG earnest car shoppers in many cities and towns throughout the U.S. last week were TIME correspondents, doing first-hand research on the battle of wits between salesman and buyer for this week's cover story on Ford Dealer Jim Moran (see BUSINESS). Researcher Piri Halasz roamed through showrooms in New York City and New Jersey, brought along an uncle who was once a car salesman himself. Correspondent Bill Shelton borrowed Correspondent Marvin Zim's Volkswagen as trade-in bait, made the rounds of Chicago car dealers, found Jim Moran's salesroom harder to escape from without a new car than anywhere else.

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