A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 22, 1961

STREET signs in the lobby of the TIME & LIFE Building on Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas point up the close ties Americans have with severed Berlin. They read: Platz der Luftbrücke (Airlift Place), Clayallee (named for General Lucius D. Clay), Washingtonplatz (for the first U.S. President). The signs, brought from West Berlin, point to an exhibit which opened last week in the TIME & LIFE Reception Center. Americans' heightened interest in Berlin today was evident at once in a flow of 150 to 200 persons visiting the exhibit each hour.

Designed and built in Germany for its federal government and the...

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