A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 21, 1947

Dear Time-Reader

I was in the beginning very fat, with no nose whatsoever. That sounds incredible now. I further had, when I was three years old, a deep basso voice with which I frightened people who forgot to look into the baby buggy. I further liked to bite little girls.

Many of you have had a good word to say about the art that accompanies these letters, and others have asked who the artist is. Having no reason for keeping him under cover, I can say that he is a tall, gangling, affable young man named Richard Erdoes, and let him continue his...

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