A Letter From The Publisher, may 25, 1953

This week you will find that something new has been added to TIME'S Business section.

At any given moment several experiments are under way in our magazine, aiming to improve and extend the service our editors render our readers. As each experiment approaches maturity, it is given a "dry run" —written and edited under actual deadline conditions for several weeks as if it were going to appear in the magazine.

If it does not pass that test, it is either abandoned or sent back to its editorial parents on the staff to be re-examined and replanned. TIME'S editors are hypercritical about any changes...

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