A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 22, 1954

In a note to our circulation department, TIME-Reader Raymond Weber of San Antonio explains how he got into the habit of giving TIME subscriptions as Christmas gifts to friends and relatives.

Wrote Reader Weber: "Quite a few years ago when I was in college, my roommate and I both subscribed to TIME, read it avidly, even copied TIME'S style in writing to each other when we were apart for summer vacation. The Christmas before we graduated, we were both stumped for a present for each other. We could not afford anything that the other...

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