A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 28, 1962

THERE is a lot of talk that the only reason Teddy Kennedy won is that he is Jack’s little brother. Not so; he’s Old Joe’s boy. See THE NATION, Teddy & Kennedyism.

TIME’s editors, writers and researchers don’t spend much time looking out the windows of the TIME & LIFE Building in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center; too busy with words on paper. But last week staff members were arguing about how many new buildings, completed or under construction, they can see from their offices on the 24th and 25th floors. Best count: 35. Reason for this study of the surroundings was this week’s story and twelve-page color spread on “The New New York.” Members of the color projects staff had been talking about this story for years as they watched New York changing; last spring they decided that this fall would be the time to catch the change at crescendo. Senior Editor Cranston Jones scouted picture possibilities in a top-down convertible; Art Director Michael Phillips, Contributing Editor Kenneth Froslid and Researcher Rosemary L. Frank explored by helicopter. Freelance Photographer Jim Langley, an old hand at TIME color projects (his last previous one: the Air Force Academy Chapel, July 27) and a resident of New York City for most of his 39 years (he owns three brownstones), went away for a week before he started on the assignment so he could see his town with a fresher eye. Shooting from roofs, ledges, helicopters, fire escapes, ladders, I beams and the bottom of excavations, Langley took, in all, some 3,000 pictures. For the best of the take, and a two-page story on how New Yorkers are ever making the old place new, see MODERN LIVING, Doing Over the Town.

EVEN more interesting than the story of John F. Kennedy and Durie Malcolm Bersbach Desloge Shevlin is the story of the story—who started it, why it grew, how it finally came out in the U.S. press. See PRESS, An American Genealogy.

ARE we all about to be poisoned, almost like guests of the Borgias, as Rachel Carson says? Nonsense. See SCIENCE, Pesticides: The Price for Progress.

SAID an angry sailor on the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba:

“I never thought I’d see the day when in a place 90 miles from the States, Commie guards would keep me from taking liberty.” For TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers’ firsthand report, see THE HEMISPHERE, Containment Shuffleboard.