While the convention chairmen are calling the roll these weeks, the thought comes to mind that TIME calls the roll of states (and, indeed, of many foreign lands) every week--with facts about important and fascinating facets of life. A partial roll call from this issue:

California--home base of the hardest thrower in organized baseball; see SPORT, The Wildest Pitcher.

Colorado--where a press lord was caught between two sisters who are not on speaking terms: see PRESS, The Power of a Woman.

Florida--where some girls would not stop at nothing; see SHOW BUSINESS, Not Too Near the Water.

Hawaii--which sent Congressman Daniel Ken Inouye to Los Angeles to second Candidate Lyndon Johnson's nomination; see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Reverberating Issue.

Idaho--where some folks thought Ivy League commencement speeches sounded like the mouthings of beatniks; see LETTERS, The Gloomy Deans.

Illinois--the Episcopal diocese of Chicago opened its piggy bank and found $1,000,000; see RELIGION, Bishop's Pence.

Kentucky--educational home of a Brazilian named Joao Soren, new president of the Baptist World Alliance; see RELIGION, Baptists on the March.

Maine--where Walter Lippmann achieved a new dimension; see PRESS, Journey on Television.

Massachusetts--in whose laboratories a team of chemists created a memorable synthetic green; see SCIENCE, How to Make Chlorophyll.

Michigan--West met East in a curious disease that comes horn eating too little or drinking too much; see MEDICINE, Shoshin Beriberi.

Minnesota--where Lyndon Johnson's doctor prescribed a 48-hour day; see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Candidates' Health.

Nevada--in which an Air Force Blue train highballed cross-country carrying a deadly load; see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, On the Track.

New Jersey--which may soon be home for the Havana Sugar Kings; see HEMISPHERE, Coping with Castro.

New York--a snowman heart helped doctors solve a problem; see MEDICINE, Snowman Heart.

North Carolina--whose biggest city, Charlotte, ended lunch-counter segregation; see BUSINESS, Time Clock.

North Dakota--whose new U.S. Senator, Quentin Burdick, won another prize; see MILESTONES.

Ohio--which gave all the prizes in a major art competition to representational, nonabstract works; see ART, The Personal Touch.

Oregon--the place where "the best athlete in the world" said that what he was doing was "ridiculous"; see SPORT, Whatever It Takes.

Rhode Island--where it's still cool, man; see Music, Newport Blues.

Tennessee--whose two-time Democratic Presidential hopeful, Estes Kefauver, did not even go to the convention; see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Where's Estes?

Texas--where oilmen are wrangling about new ways to make oil wells good to the last drop; see BUSINESS, Texas Makes Up Its Mind.

Vermont--where there's chamber music in the barn; see Music, "We Are All Students."

Washington--which saw the son of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice doing a mime act in a place called No Place; see PEOPLE.

District of Columbia--integration was being inverted; see EDUCATION, New Horizons at Howard.

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