A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 22, 1951

At booths 136 and 137 in the exhibit hall of the Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium, where the National Association of Retail Druggists held their 53rd annual convention this week, TIME'S representatives were playing a little game with visitors.

They awarded a silver dollar to anyone who could name a post office in the U.S. to which no subscription copies of TIME are sent.

There are 41,638 post offices in the nation. The druggists also saw subscription lists for their home towns, looked for their own names, those of their friends, and names of many of the...

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