A Letter From The Publisher, May 24, 1971

REPORTING for this week's cover story on job opportunities and the class of '71, our younger correspondents recalled the paths that led them to journalism and TIME. The way for the three 29-year-olds was not always straight.

Barry Hillenbrand, now in the Los Angeles bureau, comes from a family of physicians and dentists and was programmed to follow the tradition. "My total inability to master all 274 parts of the frog in college zoology turned my head and nose away from the profession," he says. Hillenbrand spent two years with the Peace Corps in...

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