A Letter From The Publisher, may 11, 1953

One day last summer, TIME'S Seattle bureau chief. Dean Brelis, was aboard a small launch in the middle of Lake Washington, watching a trial run of the Slo-Mo-Shun IV, 1952 Gold Cup winner. Suddenly a sailboat slid effortlessly up to the launch. As the sailboat started to turn, a young lady standing in the bow tossed a stone into the launch. Brelis picked up the stone, found a piece of paper wrapped around it with thick rubber bands. On the paper was a message for him to get in touch with Western Union's Operator...