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But if this makes life hard on the managing editor, this life does have its compensations. For instance, no one outside the editorial department of TIME can give the editorial department an order, no matter what his title in the Company. I have seen one of our Vice Presidents pound the top of his desk until I thought the glass would break and shout, "Can't I ever get one of my ideas into this magazine?" A couple of weeks ago, when the editor in charge of one department finally did pick up one of the Vice President's ideas, the Vice President went around the office all day beaming with pride. It had taken him six months, but he had made it.
So now I think you see why the suggestion of goosestepping efficiency just plain riles us. For if, as heaven forbid. TIME should ever acquire the sort of phony "efficiency" I've talked about, I can think of only one group who would like it—the teletypesetter operators! They would never have any corrections to make once the first and only Perfect Story was set.
Cordially,