Letters
Mar 01, 2021
4 minutes
Birth of a Salesman
Congratulations on the 200th anniversary of the Post. I wish you many more. In the late 1940s, when I was in elementary school, I was playing in front of my home in Chicago. A man asked me if I was interested in making money selling magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post. That was my first real job, and, some 70-plus years later, I am still reading the Post.
Jim Kintz, Geneva, Illinois
Twain Travel
I enjoyed (“A Magazine Is Born,” Jan/Feb) depicting his clever evasion of a duel-to-the-death in 1873. For more of his early adventures, check out Twain’s book , describing his trip to Lake Tahoe as part of a get-rich-quick scheme to
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