A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 25, 1946

I have just returned from two very exciting weeks on the Pacific Coast. I had been unable to get to the Coast since before the war; so when TIME'S Editor, Harry Luce, asked if I would like to go along with him, I jumped at the chance. We flew out to Portland and traveled south from there.

First stop was a testimonial banquet to another publisher: "Ep" Hoyt, of the Portland Oregonian, with whom I worked in OWI. He was leaving to take over the Denver Post (TIME, Feb. 18), and some 500 of Portland's...