THE crew-cut young man and the ' attractive woman pointing their fingers at each other (above) are not playing a new finger game. They are talking about the silent man in the middle: Dwight Robinson, chairman of Massachusetts Investors Trust. En gaged in conversation with Mrs. Robinson is TIME'S Boston Bureau Chief Murray Gart, who spent many hours with the Robinsons working on this week's cover story on M.I.T. and the man who runs it. Gart got to know the Robinsons well by being shadow to Robinson at his M.I.T. offices, visiting the Robinson home, romping with their three elkhounds.

Gart is as comfortable in Boston as a codfish cake. He was born there him self, but headed west to Kansas after graduating from Boston's Northeastern University. He became news editor of the Wichita Eagle, was a stringer cor respondent for TIME before going to full time in 1955 as Toronto bureau chief. In Toronto Gart got his intro duction to finance by covering the frenzied Toronto Stock Exchange and its volatile penny stocks. He also got his first market blooding (he lost $4.98). Back in his native Boston, Gart got a different view of finance in the tradition-laden world of M.I.T. He learned a lot about mutual funds, but little about the bonus : some hot tips on the stock market. Only at the very end did M.I.T.'s closemouthed men loosen up enough to venture that M.I.T. looks with favor on such true-blue chips as IBM and U.S. Steel.

With a straight face, Gart passed on this conservative tip to Contribut ing Editor Ed Jamieson in Manhattan, who wrote the cover story. Jamieson was also born in Boston, went to Bos ton University, thinks that one of the world's fairest sights is Boston Com mon at dusk.

The Robinson cover is the tenth that Ed Jamieson has written for TIME.

Like M.I.T.'s Robinson, he is also ac quainted with business. So far this year, he has turned out three other covers on some of the exciting aspects of the American boom: the story of General Electric's Ralph Cordiner and the atomic energy industry, the telephone-man cover on A.T. & T., and the rise of American Motors' George Romney and the compact car. The result of the team work between Gart and Jamieson, and the story of the financial world's fastest-growing phenomenon, you can read in the BUSINESS cover story on The Prudent Man.

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