A Letter From The Publisher, May 10, 1976

In the production room on the 24th floor of the Time-Life Building in Manhattan, several writers were "greening"—penciling out lines of their stories or adding a few to fit the space allotted to them. Trailing long galleys, the writers and other people on late duty constantly consulted the busy man on the high stool: Director of Computer Composition Robert Boyd. Whenever anything is about to go wrong at the end of the week—a misplaced sentence, a missing picture caption, an inexplicably overlong story—everyone knows that the man to see is Boyd. He can...