Series I. Chief of Correspondent Files, 1935-1987, inclusive

The Emmet Hughes Files contain correspondence, memorandum, and dispatches that Hughes received while acting as Foreign News Chief. While these materials were found with other chief of correspondent files, these materials were separated since they had a different organization, different folders, and a single collector. The correspondence and memorandum included in this subseries provide reactions and summaries to articles as well as bureau updates.

The Murray Gart Files contain materials collected by or sent to Gart from 1971 to 1976. Originally found with corporate editorial records, these files were separated and placed with the chief of correspondents' materials when it was discovered that Gart was the creator of these records. The type of materials in this subseries are similar to the materials found the General Files subseries within the Chief of Correspondent Files. Contained in this subseries are budgets, marketing reports, popularity reports, industry reports, executive summaries, lists of staff, dispatches, salary reports, affirmative action reports, meeting attendee lists, conflict of interest policy drafts, meeting agenda, and correspondence. Correspondence in this subseries discusses hiring, circulation, contract negotiations, New York City municipal work strikes, travel schedules, discrimination, traineeship programs, budgets and expenses, conflicts of interests, cost control, staffing changes, and lawsuits.

The Richard Duncan Files contain materials collected by or sent to Duncan from 1980 to 1987. While originally thought to be general chief of correspondent files, these materials were found within their own box and had a single creator. There were no other chief of correspondent files other than the ones created by Duncan. The type of materials in this subseries are similar to the materials found the General Files subseries within the Chief of Correspondent Files. Included in this subseries are lists of meeting attendees, biographical data sheets, dispatches, translations of court documents, dinner event menus, a report on background material for the Korean delegation dinner, CVs, travel itinerary, and correspondence. The correspondence featured in this subseries discusses fellowship programs, meetings, new hires, travel plans, stringers, invitations, consultant reports, proposed projects, schedules, and itinerary.

The General Files cover the period of 1944 through 1987 and contain materials created by a variety of chiefs of correspondents at the Time-Life News Service. Several sets of General Files were found. It is unclear who grouped files from different chiefs together, if an administrator within the Time-Life News Service or the Time Inc. Archives was responsible. The separate sets have been grouped together alphabetically as one series.

Folder titles include a mix of names, places, and subjects. While the Bureau files subseries and Staff Files series contain folders with titles and materials similar to those found in this subseries, the materials have not been interfiled. The main reason that these materials have remained separate is because they were found stored and arranged separately from one another.

Contained in this subseries are payroll forms, employment applications, resumes and CVs, clippings, invitations, guests lists, dispatches, translated articles, benefits summary sheets, annual reports, awards ceremony pamphlets, requisition forms, biographical summaries, press releases, conflict of interest and employment policies, department heads lists, error reports, evaluation guidelines, meeting transcripts, photos, negatives, contact lists, prospectuses, list of Time Inc. board members, news bureau surveys and results, distribution lists, financial statements and reports, seating lists and charts, vacation schedules, query sheets, lists of bureau staff, immigration and visa forms, reports on newstour participants, background research reports for newstours, reports attitudes toward Time, and memoranda and correspondence. The memoranda and correspondence within this series discusses budgets, travel plans, hiring, salaries, contact information, raises, research, bureau operations and updates, costs, article corrections and comments, staffing changes, stringers, job candidates, job responsibilities, meetings, conflicts of interest, masthead changes and acknowledgments, interview requests, job enquiries, meetings, invitations, censorship, story and project proposals, policies, lawsuits, contracts, shipping of supplies, correspondent assignments, newstour proposals, updates on newstours, schedules, and bureau finances.