A Letter From The Publisher: may 18, 1962

WE are not often accused of being bland or evasive, and if we have a preference for speaking directly, so do our readers. The letters we get, as indicated by the selection we publish each week, are never lacking in forthrightness. "Brickbats for your biased baloney," begins one. And there is no reader so scornful as one whose favorite section got left out one week ("Man can't live by gluten bread alone. Where's the Art section?").

Our readers seem to feel a democratic possessiveness about our Letters column. After President Kennedy's set-to with steel,...

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