Dear Time-Reader: From time to time, I am questioned by TIME readers about TIME editors--where they came from, where they went to school and what they did before working at TIME. Readers want to know where a national magazine like TIME gets its editors.

You may be interested in the answers. Take the matter of geographical background, for example. The editors listed on our masthead represent half the states in the Union. The managing editor was born in Omaha, Neb., and the assistant managing editor in St. Louis, Mo. Of our ten senior editors, only two are native New Yorkers, one born in Manhattan, and another in New Rochelle. The other eight represent, respectively: Chicago, IL.; Tacoma, Wash.; Nacogdoches, Texas; Corinth, Miss.; Vienna, Austria; Milwaukee, Wis.; Pittsfield, Mass.; and Baltimore, Md.

Among our associate editors and contributing editors, 13 were born in New York City, the others represent 18 different states and the District of Columbia. One TIME editor, whose father was in the diplomatic service, was born in Le Havre, France. Five came from England, two from Australia, one from Canada and one from Hong Kong. One was born and educated in Moscow, where he became a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute before the Bolshevik revolution forced him to flee to France, and eventually to the U.S. As for formal education, some 60% of TIME'S editors hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent, and six, a master's. Fifteen of our editors went to Harvard, seven to Princeton and six to Yale. Five went to Columbia University and two each to the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri, the University of Colorado, New York University and Clark University. For the rest, the alumni allegiance is to scores of other large and small colleges both in the U.S. and abroad. (Three did graduate work at Oxford, the Sorbonne, and the London School of Economics.)

Not all of TIME'S editors went to college. One of them, and he's as good as they come in his field, says that his first appearance on a college platform occurred a few years ago when he was invited to deliver a commencement address.

About a third of our editors got jobs after their schooling as copy boys, office boys, reporters on their local newspapers or small magazines. One began as copyreader for the Panama American in Panama City, Panama. Another began his training on the Pierce County Press in Rugby, N.Dak. And another broke in on the Sand Mountain Banner in Albertville, Ala.

By the time their names first appeared on the masthead of TIME, half of the editors had worked on a total of 45 major American dailies. The alumni roster includes such famous big-city papers as the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, the .Philadelphia Inquirer, the Atlanta Journal, the Los Angeles Examiner, the Seattle Times, the New York Journal oj Commerce, the Chicago Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and the Houston Post.

Cordially yours,

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