A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 12, 1949

Herewith some incidental intelligence about TIME from our mail of the last few weeks:

James K. Dobbs, millionaire Memphis auto dealer and airport restaurateur, has reported a strange coincidence regarding TIME'S story on him in our Aug. 15 Business & Finance department. "On the day the story appeared," he said, "I boarded a plane going to Dallas. A woman sitting next to me was reading a copy of TIME when all of a sudden she burst out with 'Oh, my goodness!' Everybody on the plane turned around and she exclaimed, pointing to my picture,...

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