A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 27, 1962

MODERN Living Writer Ben Hall claims to have developed "one of the first cases of World's Fair Feet of 1962—before the thing even opened" as he knocked around the Seattle Fair last weekend, wandering between packing cases, wet plaster walls and flying paintbrushes. He found the pre-opening atmosphere exhilarating, and concluded that Seattleites "love the idea of the fair, but hate the thought of strangers' finding what a nice neck of the woods they live in. They hope people won't come out and take them over." Hall is a world's fair buff who has never seen one before. He has...

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