end totally responsible for all decisions on content. Directors of the Council, never exactly weak or without strong views, must frequently have been put off by the articles printed, but none has ever for a moment intervened, or so far as I know ever thought of doing so.

The modus operandi of the two Editors was surely unique in the history of American magazines. They communicated not by telephone but by daily letters which in those days, posted by five in the afternoon, would reach the other before nine the following morning! (Comment on this is superfluous.) In the Armstrong papers, which are the centerpiece and highlight of Princeton's Mudd Library collections—as they were of the exhibit on the Council and Foreign Affairs—a special feature is the full originals,mostly handwritten, of both men's letters during the time they worked together. Although Coolidge's papers were given to the Harvard library system, an exception was made for these letters in order to bring the whole file together in one place.

Very different in outward personality, the gregarious and lively Armstrong and the more staid and reserved Coolidge shared not only a thirst for travel and seeing things and people at first hand, but a wide range of interests, an obsessive concern for care and accuracy, openness of mind, and a passion for anonymity and letting authors speak as they themselves wished. They were, in short, great editors.

Armstrong's own papers cover everything under the sun. As an old working reporter he did daily long notes of what he had seen