Whenever we feel that all is serene here at TIME, our (and your) most unpredictable opponent invariably rares back and lets us have it. It's the weather.
In spring the aurora borealis interrupts the direct wires to our printing plants in Chicago and Philadelphia, jumbling the transmission, mixing words and phrases, so that we have to send the copy over until it is intelligible. If that isn't irritating enough, nature sometimes steps in with a sterner warninglike the lightning bolt that struck the Philadelphia plant one Monday (deadline) night, knocking out the power supply. Type had to be reset in another plant,...