A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 28, 1952

Dear Time-Reader

Among the letters I have received from you about TIME'S book on the U.S. college graduate was one from a woman reader (unmarried) in Georgia: "Having read with interest your column on They Went to College and your promise to discuss findings on the woman graduate later, I am writing in the hope of heading you off from an unremarked error in the folklore concerning woman and marriage.

"Folklore has it that all women wish to be married ... I truly believe that as many as 15 or 20% do not wish to be...

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