A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 24, 1983

As subscribers and newsstand buyers know, we are marking TIME'S 60th birthday with a just published Special Anniversary Issue. The milestone is also being celebrated on television, with a 72-minute documentary called The Time of Our Lives: The Most Amazing 60 Years in History. The show, which debuted last week on Home Box Office, the nation's leading pay cable TV service and a subsidiary of Time Inc., will air several times in October and November. It looks at TIME'S reporting of the personalities and events of the past six decades.

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