A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 8, 1963

AGE: 40.

GENERAL CONDITION : Healthy. As much muscle as ever, with quite a few refinements on how to use it. Still growing.

CIRCULATION : Flowing faster.

APPEARANCE : Changing gradually with the years. Showing more color.

STATE OF MIND: Searching, inquisitive, digging, critical, sometimes downright nosy, often troubled, occasionally angry, but more often amused or philosophical. Never satisfied.

This a bit of self-diagnosis after a fullface look in the mirror on this, our 40th birthday. The first issue of TIME appeared exactly 40 years ago this week—March 3, 1923. It was, if we may be...