A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 7, 1954

The subscription-service division of any magazine that has reached the circulation of TIME (over 2,000,000) inevitably makes mistakes. And inevitably the subscribers concerned are quick to let us know about it. Such was the case of Subscriber V. W. Greene of St. Paul, Minn., who recently received a letter from Miss Mildred Shipley in TIME'S Chicago subscription office questioning him about his subscription payment. Subscriber Greene's reply:

I HAVE a strange aversion to answering the enclosed letter, since my only past experience with TIME Magazine's administrative section led to unsuspected complications. A story...

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