A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 20, 1950

Someone tried this out on me last week and I thought that it might amuse you. We were discussing the way the news is written in TIME, and just for fun my friend went through the Feb. 13 issue, writing down the lead sentence (or most of it) from a story in every one of TIME'S 21 regular departments except Letters and Milestones. Here they are: Can you match them up with their departments?

1. It would be the biggest cheese in the history of the world.

2. The devil is active in Châtellerault, in Chinon...

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