A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 23, 1946

A TIME tradition—the Current Affairs Test which was interrupted as one of our wartime economies—will be back in TIME in the issue of Oct. 14th.

As many of you will recall, we dropped the test from the magazine in the spring of 1942 because of the wartime paper shortage. It had appeared regularly in TIME (at first, twice, then three times a year) since the issue of March 11, 1935. The original test was modeled after a similar one prepared for the American Council on Education by Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, now vice president of Stanford University, and Elmo C. Wilson, now...