A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 29, 1945

TIME has never been a magazine for everybody—and yet right now TIME's circulation is more than 2,300,000.

A little more than 1,300,000 copies are distributed here in the United States—and 1,000,000 more are circulated overseas, mostly, of course, among our armed forces.

This is still pretty small compared with circulation giants like LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post —but it is many times higher than TIME'S young founders ever dreamed their Newsmagazine could possibly grow. (As late as 1933 there were some very serious discussions here about whether TIME would still be TIME if...