THREE old (in point of service, that is) hands at TIME will soon be moving on to new jobs and broader fields.

LAWRENCE EUGENE LAYBOURNE, 44, chief of correspondents of the U.S. and Canadian News Service for the past eight years, will take the new post of managing director of TIME International Ltd. of Canada. Larry Laybourne was an experienced reporter on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before he came to TIME in 1944 as Ottawa correspondent. In that post he was one of the most widely traveled newsmen in Canada, covering every province from the Maritimes to British Columbia. He moved to Washington as deputy bureau chief in 1946, was LIFE'S News Bureau chief in New York, 1949-50, then took over as boss of all correspondents in 13 bureaus and some 160 "stringers" strategically scattered about the U.S. and Canada. In his new job he will be in charge of publishing operations for TIME'S Canada edition, will make his headquarters in Toronto.

JAMES ROBINSON SHEPLEY, who became the youngest chief of the Washington bureau, TIME-LIFE'S largest, in 1948 when he was only 30, will succeed Laybourne as chief of domestic correspondents. Jim Shepley cubbed on the Harrisburg Patriot, edited by his father, was a United Press correspondent in Washington before he joined TIME as a Washington reporter in 1942. He covered the China-Burma-India. Southwest Pacific and European theaters in World War II, later served as military aide to General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army. He was back in civvies only a short time when General Marshall, just retired, called him back to duty as an aide on his special presidential mission to China. Back on the job for TIME-LIFE. Shepley, as head of the Washington bureau, made the world his beat. If he was not flying the Atlantic with General Alfred M. Gruenther, Shepley might be fishing with Vice President Richard M. Nixon, or on a safari in Africa with the Air Force's General Curtis LeMay (for a LIFE picture story), or developing a far-reaching story on U.S. world policy.

JAMES LUKENS McCONAUGHY JR., 42, will become the new chief of the Washington bureau. A graduate of Wesleyan University, where his father, later governor of Connecticut, was president, McConaughy came to TIME in 1938 as a summer-vacation office boy. During World War II he was a Marine bombing control officer in the Pacific. He served as bureau chief in Ottawa and Seattle before he moved to Washington in 1951 to report on Capitol Hill. Covering Congress for TIME, big (6 ft. 2 in., 203 lbs.), greying Jim McConaughy says, has been like "trying to report six fires with each threatening to get out of control, while 19 different fire companies roar up (eight of which are volunteers--and aren't quite sure what they're supposed to do)." Now he will have to send another man to cover the fires while he analyzes the smoke.

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