MOST of TIME'S reporting is done by its 90 staff correspondents in 30 bureaus around the world--such as Chicago Bureau Chief Murray Gart, who did the major digging for this week's cover story, and Tokyo Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter, who covered the International Monetary Fund meeting in Tokyo for WORLD BUSINESS. But an important part of our coverage is supplied by more than 300 part-time correspondents --known in the office vocabulary as "stringers"--who report to us from near (Philadelphia) and far (Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia).

Some of the stringers are unexpected types--for example, Dolly Connelly of Bellingham, Wash., a housewife who bakes very good oatmeal-walnut yeast bread, and who is also a freelance journalist who covers her area of the Northwest U.S. with a bright and knowing touch. Most of the part-time correspondents, however, are full-time professional journalists who hold positions of importance in the areas they cover.

Two of the best of our overseas stringers find themselves collaborating these weeks on an international story that has special nuances in their countries: the marriage of Denmark's Princess Anne-Marie to Greece's King Constantine. TIME'S man on this story in Copenhagen is Knud Meister (cable address: TIMEISTER), one of Denmark's best-known journalists. A top staff member of Copenhagen's leading daily, Berlingske Tidende, he is also author of many books. For the past year, Meister's daughter, Birgit, 22, who wants to follow in her father's journalistic path in Denmark, has been working for TIME in Manhattan. Watching her progress, and recalling that he has represented TIME in Denmark since 1949, her father has let it be known that he hopes "some day TIME will hire a new stringer, and this time a girl, and that the cable address can then be preserved."

Our man at the other end of the royal wedding story is Anthony Antonakakis, TIME'S representative in Greece since 1956. He is not only a top figure in Greek journalism, as editorial writer for a leading Athens newspaper, but also author of the respected Democracy in Greece (in English) and two volumes of history of the French Revolution. His wife, who holds a doctorate in education from Columbia University, is a leader in Greek education.

While TIME is essentially U.S.-oriented, and is largely reported, written and edited by staff members who are American citizens, the intimate knowledge that the part-time correspondents abroad have of their countries makes an invaluable contribution to our perspective. In a somewhat different way, our part-time correspondents across the U.S. provide local knowledge and feeling that an outsider might easily miss. The stringers make their contribution not only by what they report directly to the editors and writers in New York, but also in the guidance that they give our traveling correspondents. Many a full-time correspondent, writer and editor has a particularly close knowledge of what a stringer can contribute--because he used to be one himself.

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