MORMALLY this space is devoted to the exploits and accomplishments of the men and women on the staff of TIME. But last week's announcement that Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson had been appointed editor in chief of Harper's (see THE PRESS) prompts us to reflect a bit on some of our alumni who are now working elsewhere in journalism. "Shnay" leaves with our gratitude for his contributions to TIME and with our best wishes for success in his new job. If we have special reason for believing that it will be a challenging one, it is partly because Harper's chief rival, the Atlantic, is edited by our good friend Robert Manning, also a former TIME senior editor.

Ever since it first went to press 48 years ago, TIME has been a training school for a number of talented people who have gone on to other publications or different fields. Our first Washington correspondent, for example, was Henry Cabot Lodge, who since has had a memorable career in politics as a Senator, Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1960, and ambassador to the United Nations and South Viet Nam. During the 1920s and '30s, our masthead was graced by the presence of Novelists John O'Hara and Frank Norris, Poets Stephen Vincent Benet and Archibald MacLeish. Theodore White, Robert Sherrod and John Hersey were TIME correspondents during World War II. Poet-Critic James Agee gained his first measure of fame as our longtime movie reviewer.

Among the top editors of Time Inc.'s other magazines LIFE, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED--are several TIME veterans. Other alumni have achieved comparable success elsewhere. Newsweek's editor in chief, Osborn Elliott, its managing editor, Lester Bernstein, and its executive editor, Robert Christopher, are all former TIME staffers. At the New York Times, Foreign Editor James Greenfield, Correspondents Eric Pace and Charles Mohr, Reporters Israel Shenker and John Noble Wilford, to name only a few, are former TIME correspondents or writers. So are Editor T George Harris of Psychology Today, syndicated Newsday Columnist Nick Thimmesch, Michael Demarest, an editorial executive at Playboy, New Yorker Writers Calvin Trillin and John McPhee, Alvin M. Josephy of American Heritage. The pseudonymous financial analyst "Adam Smith," author of the bestselling The Money Game, wrote for our Business section under his real name, George J.W. Goodman, before becoming editor of The Institutional Investor. Syndicated Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber is a former TIME researcher and correspondent in our Los Angeles bureau.

The path of progress in journalism is not a one-way street: we too have certainly kept recruiting talent from other publications. And pleased as we are about the success of many TIME alumni, we are even more pleased and proud of the fact that most of our writers, reporter-researchers, editors and correspondents have chosen to pursue lengthy and satisfying careers at TIME.

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