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Photo laboratory?

Photo laboratory, staff, wives--

Time staff, too?

Time staff, everybody--the whole--somebody had found us a house in Tours, so we were heading for Tours. Of course, so was everybody else, and so was the army. And if you can imagine an old French road with hundreds of thousands of people, plus tanks, military trucks, all trying to make their way through there. So you were driving at an average of about five miles an hour. I think it took us sixteen hours to drive to Tours. Today it would take you two hours. And we settled down Tours for a while. That was bombed. That was the first time that I was close to--I never heard that: you know the description of ripping a sheet being the sound of a bomb coming down? If it sounds like it's a sheet being ripped it means it's close, and you lie down. That was the first time I heard the sheet being ripped that way, though we were not hurt. But we all sat[?], and we had with us as a bodyguard one of the editors of one of the big papers there, who'd been drafted and assigned to us as a bodyguard, Max Corre.

A French national?

A Frenchman, crazy Frenchman. And after we'd been in