THE picture at right shows Charles Bateman, a physicist, in his New Kensington (Pa.) home last week. Another picture of him is on page 68, showing him six weeks ago buried under ice cubes. Bateman was then being "chilled" in preparation for a spectacular heart operation by Dr. Charles Bailey, TIME'S cover man this week. TIME'S color pictures follow that successful operation step by step into the patient's very heart. Bateman is only one of hundreds of patients who every month undergo dramatic cardiac surgery considered impossible only five years ago. To write the story of this revolutionary progress, TIME Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant spent two weeks visiting 13 major heart-surgery centers, donned scrub suit, cap and mask to watch half a dozen operations from the edge of the operating table, saw hearts stopped, cut and patched according to the latest, most daring techniques. See MEDICINE, Surgery's New Frontier.

THE pumpkin got bruised, the white mice grew too fast and had to be replaced, and the director did not dare use a real coach-and-four because Cinderella and most others in the cast were afraid of horses. Otherwise, rehearsals were proceeding pleasantly in a big Manhattan TV studio where Broadway Showmakers Rodgers and Hammerstein and a cast of stars are preparing a lavish musical version of Cinderella. For a close peek at how a TV spectacular is put together, see TV & RADIO, Rear View.

THE good citizen ordinarily is the one who plays a part in his community's political and civic affairs. But there are some who deliberately refrain from such activities in the belief that to do so makes them less effective citizens. They are newspapermen of a large and far-spread school who think that a journalist, by identifying himself with specific groups or activities, compromises his primary role as an independent observer and critic of society. Journalists are far from agreed on the matter, and there are many who argue that editors and reporters who don't pitch into service and charitable activities fail to get a real understanding of the communities they serve. When it comes to politics, there is less argument within the profession--a majority feel like the New Jersey editor who last week decided that the time had come to end a popular Jersey City practice whereby newsmen also serve politicians as ghost writers or pressagents. See PRESS, Should George Do It? and Speechless in Jersey.

THIS week the American Institute of Architects announced the winners of its fourth annual Journalism Awards Competition, in recognition of writing that has furthered public understanding of architecture and the architect. Winner of first prize of $500 for the best article on an architectural subject or personality published by a U.S. magazine in 1956: TIME Associate Editor Cranston Jones, for his cover story (July 2) on Architect Eero Saarinen.

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