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...fabulous four-minute mile has long since made track a biggish business in Sweden. When promoters found that amateurs liked to eat as well as run, they began cutting them in on the profits. Last week Swedish newspapers reported that the Amateur Athletic Association had finally heard about it-and had been prop-perly shocked to find that Gunder (4:01.4) Hagg, Arne (4:01.6) Andersson and some 13 other hot-footing track stars had been eating right well. For charging as much as $500 for a single performance, the Association was about to rule them pros and rub their...
This week the public was still taking it-and not liking it. Long accustomed to labor's getting its own way, it waited for the Government to add up the bill and present the check. Not so the soldier. Angered before by strikes in wartime, he boiled over again at the longshoremen's strike, which was slowing down his return home. This week the New York Times printed soldiers' bitter letters on Page One. Typical excerpt...
...that explains why we started this Letter from the Publisher: to take you "backstage" at TIME regularly once each week, to show you just what we were trying to do and how we were trying to do it-and to take you into our confidence about our plans for the future...
Unlike the skyscrapers further down Manhattan Island, Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine has been a long time agrowing. Already some $16,000,000 and 52 years of labor have gone into it-and it is still only two-thirds built. Last week the Right Rev. William Thomas Manning, 79, Episcopal Bishop of New York, whose pride & joy the Cathedral is, proposed to finish it. He asked cathedral-goers for $10,000,000 more to do the job. With that amount the job might be done in six years...
Soon we hope the print order for this new edition will go higher still-until we can make TIME available in the E.T.O. to every news-hungry American who wants it-and get it to him almost as fast as you get it right here at home each week...