A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 8, 1965

The New Year prophets have come and gone. And the average businessman is now trying to summarize their messages and find out what they said. First, he finds that financial as well as other doctors disagree; second, that when such messages from the master minds of Business really say anything, it is apt to be limited to the district or business in which the particular master mind is preeminent.

SO started a TIME story in the issue of Jan. 7, 1924, as the weekly newsmagazine, looking back on its own first year of existence, "reviewed" the U.S. economy and, taking into consideration...

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