A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 14, 1961

ALL good journalism is a mixture of discovery tempered by experience. This week's cover story on camping we hope is such a blending, combining a writer's enthusiastic findings with the knowledgeability contributed by some old hands.

Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum is strictly from Eastern urb and suburb, but went into training for the story by camping out at Jackson Hole, Wyo., and some of his delight rubs off in the telling. Among correspondents who supplied material for the story are a number of old campers. Kenneth Froslid of the Chicago bureau, a camper since...

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