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> Herbert L. Matthews, 43, one of the ablest, is a deadly serious, intellectual reporter who lives meticulously on a rigid schedule, looks like a State Department attache, has a Phi Beta Kappa key, writes with steadfast accuracy. A native New Yorker, Matthews has been a Timesman since 1922, a foreign correspondent since 1928. He marched with the Italians into Ethiopia, covered the Spanish Civil War from the Republican side. In Italy when war between the U.S. and the Axis broke out, he was interned. Released last summer, he returned to the U.S. He has written two books: Eyewitness in Abyssinia, Two Wars and More To Come.
Today Matthews is in India. His only instruction from Managing Editor James : to tell Americans about the country. In the past seven months, as a result, Matthews has done a body of work that amounts to a major triumph, a job in India that no other reporter has ever done. Reporting only infrequently on Indian politics, as confusing to him as to anyone, he has concentrated on a long series of enlightening feature pieces that amount to the first real U.S. contribution to understanding of a largely undiscovered nation.
> Cyrus L. Sulzberger II has been a working newsman less than ten years, a Timesman only since 1939. Still young (29) and a nephew of Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; he has bested both handicaps, has won the respect of Timesmen on his own merits.
Tall, dark-haired, an omnivorous reader (of history, philosophy) and an accomplished linguist, Cy Sulzberger joined the Pittsburgh Press when he graduated from Harvard in 1934, weekly spent most of his meager earnings on modern art and books. Later he went to the United Press's Washington bureau, mainly reported on labor news. There he was distinguished as the worst-dressed Washington reporter, wearing a frayed trench coat in all weathers. Then he wrote a book, Sit Down with John L. Lewis. In 1938 he went abroad on his own, joined the London Evening Stand ard. In 1939 he joined the Times' s London bureau. From 1938 until he returned to the U.S. in August 1942 he traveled an estimated 100,000 miles through 30 countries, visited many of the battlefronts of World War II. He wrote so many needling articles about Balkan and Axis politics that he was successively banned from Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Italy, was called by Italian Propagandist Virginio Gayda "a creeping tarantula, going from country to country, spreading poison." He was arrested by the Gestapo as a British spy.
He is now at the front in North Africa.
> Hanson Baldwin, long, lean, softspoken, is not properly a full-time foreign correspondent. But as military affairs analyst of the Times (he hates the word "expert") he periodically goes out to where things are happening, to get the feel of the news. Baltimore-born, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate (1924), he served with the Navy three years before becoming a Baltimore Sun reporter. He went to the Times in 1929, at once got all naval assignments. Coached by Managing Editor James, who saw war coming, Reporter Baldwin specialized more & more in naval and military affairs: in 1937 he toured Europe for four months, learning all he could about the land, air and sea strength of Europe's powers; steadily studied logistics, tactics, military history.