A Special Request!

THE Atlantic is old enough to enjoy a joke at its own expense. The story of the schoolgirl who traveled with the Atlantic as her chaperon (and inside the orange covers a copy of True Confessions) has been going the rounds for fifteen years. In his series of Industrial Crises the artist Rea Irvin, if memory serves, once depicted the effect of a split infinitive in the Atlantic’s office. And in the New Yorker of January 23 was a drawing which paid handsome tribute to our Rejection Slip. We should like to begin a collection. Will those readers who know of stories, cartoons, sketches, or references, however derogatory, however scurrilous, be good enough to send or lend us their clippings or suggest where the reproductions may be found? We take a family pride in such matters. For each story or drawing accepted for our colleetion we will pay a dollar. Rut not, of course, for duplicates. To the reader sending in the largest assortment we will award a five-year subscription to the Atlantic.