People: Dec. 13, 1968

"You don't have to read it all, but it's nice to know it's all there," goes a radio ad for the New York Times. Not necessarily—at least not for Margaret Fishback, a Manhattan ad copywriter and author of light verse (TIME, June 28). Contemplating her 7-lb., 16-section, 739-page edition of the Sunday Times, Miss Fishback finally sat down and dashed off a few heartfelt lines of protest to the editor, which the Times dutifully printed two Sundays later, right next to the 200-page magazine section's table of contents.

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