A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 23, 1959

RANGED around the world TIME has the largest corps of correspondents reporting to any single publication —more than 440 fulltime and part-time reporters. Most of their time is spent in the hard, not necessarily glamorous job of reporting, observing, analyzing—and thinking—about the news. But at times, perhaps more often than the reporters for most other publications, they have a story that leads to real adventure. Such was the case with this week's color-picture story on the vast, wild Amazon River basin.

Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief George de Carvalho, with New York Photographer Anthony Linck, traveled 10,000 miles for almost a month...

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