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 Chatellerault, in Chinon and in Domfront, but above all he is active in Loudun.

3. For cold, disciplined unity of purpose, Chile had never seen anything like it.

4. U.S. women are creating crises in their lives by wanting their husbands to be superior to them . . .

5. The tugs pulled, winches ground, a flood tide whipped by a chill north wind nudged at her sides.

6. Arms and the Girl . . . can thank its stars that they are its stars.

7. In Kiel, Germany last week, a dark-haired young man strolled into the district attorney's office and said, "I'm Horst Stark--the man you've been looking for."

8. For several years Britons have been looking down their noses at what they called "American spy hysteria."

9. The embarrassed natives of Lake Placid, N.Y. explained that the weather was really unusual.

10. It was the kind of story to tear hearts--and sell newspapers.

11. "The ashes of Bing, a 17-year-old alley cat ... were scattered over the rose garden behind [his owner's] home yesterday, where Bing liked to lie in the sun."

12. Little (5 ft. 3 in.) Frank A. Seiberling liked to be called the "Little Napoleon of Rubber."

13. Britain's famed old public schools have long given their graduates a first-class education as well as an old school tie.

14. Everybody suspects that television has deeply affected U.S. family habits.

15. To most of the U.S. public the hydrogen bomb was still a direful novelty last week, but to scientists there was little news about it.

16. Key to the City. . . demonstrates that Clark Gable still cuts a manly figure in his underwear . . .

17. In the continuing war between science and religion, the issue last week was sex.

18. A new danger was added last week to the hazards of everyday living.

You'll find the correct answers in the postscript.

Cordially yours,

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