Notes and Asides

(In the promotion office downstairs a young man named Steven Kraft started work last week. He saw the letter from 83-year-old Wilbur Helm printed in this space last issue, and wrote a note to circulation manager Bob White: “Dear Mr. White, I want to be a regular subscriber if you will give me credit until payday. I am only 17 now but I figure that it may take me until I’m over 80, like Mr. Helm, to understand every word in the articles by __________ and __________, so I’d like to begin before it’s too late.”)