EDITORIAL EMANATIONS

I. THANKS: Again in this spot, your Editor wishes to thank all of those who so thoughtfully sent Christmas cards to her, and most part- icularly to those five special girls who remembered her with little. gifts. Two of these came in the form of money and I would like to report that this went toward a large and beautiful jewelry chest to keep all my diamonds, emeralds, and rubies (?????) in. I do want to thank all of you for both cards and gifts. It was just too much extra work for Joyce and I to try to send out cards, so our Season's Greet- ings were included in #11 of the Mirror which I hope you all got.

APOLOGIES AND EXPLANATION: Every mail brings plaintive wails as to "where is my copy of Male Actress" which I ordered X months ago? Dear friends, it is now finally and completely in the printer's hands, but sandwiched between the Mirror, this issue of TVia and the rest of his business I doubt it will be ready for distribution for several weeks yet. This venture has been dogged with various trials primar- ily of incompleteness and having to find someone to finish it, which JoAnne (5-T-3) finally did, and to whom I owe many thanks, and then of artwork. My previous artist was not able to help this time and I had to find someone else nearby who could, would, and was "hep". This too took time but was finally achieved. I wish Barbara had not been so premature in her announcement of it last fall. It had to be printed on the new Descriptive Price List sheets when they went to press and, this, too, implied completion, but it won't be long now.

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III. NON-RECEIPT OF MAIL: This is a recurring problem to us. take considerable pains to check and double check orders against payment, payment against both cards and cash sheet, and shipments against orders so that we may be sure that we are not at fault. Yet there is a small but continuous stream of wails.. "where is my ??? which I ordered way back when"? Sometimes the lack of receipt is due to expiration of subscription without knowing it, sometimes the postoffice returns it to us because the person moved or closed a box and doesn't seem to recall this himself. Oftener the shipment does not come back to us but does not get delivered either. At this point we are a little baffled because, considering the feelings of our sub- scribers about security, we cannot go to the Post Office and register

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