A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 25, 1957

THE picture at right shows Charles Bateman, a physicist, in his New Kensington (Pa.) home last week. Another picture of him is on page 68, showing him six weeks ago buried under ice cubes. Bateman was then being "chilled" in preparation for a spectacular heart operation by Dr. Charles Bailey, TIME'S cover man this week. TIME'S color pictures follow that successful operation step by step into the patient's very heart. Bateman is only one of hundreds of patients who every month undergo dramatic cardiac surgery considered impossible only five years ago. To write the story of this revolutionary progress, TIME...

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