A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 6, 1947

The lady worrying her pet aspidistra through the subway at Manhattan's Rockefeller Center a few weeks ago may or may not have been headed for TIME INC.'S sixth annual Country Fair. Chances are, however, that she was—for at that time many members of our organization were lugging their entries in this event to the reception room of the TIME & LIFE Building.

Obviously, the center of New York City is probably the least likely place in the U.S. to hold a country fair. Nevertheless, we began ours the autumn after Pearl Harbor because so...

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