A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 15, 1948

Last week Joe Axelrod's personnel department at the headquarters of his textile empire in Woonsocket, Rhode Island was still sorting and classifying the mail as it came in, and he was answering it as fast as he could. Said he: "Holy cats! I never dreamed a story could stir up such a response. One day you're quietly doing business in the same old way; the next you're a national figure with mail and telegrams pouring in from all over the hemisphere."

We have been hearing about the results of the Axelrod story ever since...

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