A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 28, 1948

The next time you are in New York City you may be interested to know that you can hire an armored car at a moment's notice, get rid of a half dozen tired neckties by mailing them to an outfit that sends you (for $1) six different ones in return, be taken care of at midnight at the "Dawn Patrol Beauty Salon," or rent a psychoanalytical motion picture to help you understand yourself.

This not necessarily pertinent information is a fragment of the mountainous residue of facts left over from The Big Bonanza, TIME'S cover story on Mayor O'Dwyer and his New...

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