This is the season when the editors of TIME begin considering candidates for TIME'S Man of the Year -- the person, man or woman, who dominated the news of the year and left his mark, for good or ill, on history. Picking the Man of the Year for the first January cover has been a TIME tradition since the first week of January 1928. Then the choice was clear: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the young man who on May 20-21, 1927, soloed the Atlantic in 33 hrs. 30 min. and captured the admiration of the entire world.

The choice of TIME'S men of the years since then has never been determined by popular ballot; it is decided by the questions that the editors put to themselves: Who did the most to change the news of the year? Or who, in all the fields of achievement, earned the biggest claim to fame?

The Parker Pen Co., long knowing about the Man of the Year tradition, this year decided to produce .a television show about it. The show will be presented on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 6, from 5 to 6 (E.S.T.), on one of the biggest television hookups ever arranged. Called "The Man of the Year Revue," it will originate from NBC-TV in New York and will be telecast over more than a hundred stations. The program will focus on the newsmakers of this year, the statesmen, scientists, soldiers, the heroes and the villains who made the good and bad news, the history and gossip of 1953. In addition, the Man of the Year Revue program will bring before the television cameras top Broadway stars and other newsworthy figures in such fields as politics, science and sports.

The program is designed to give you a glimpse of some of the Man of the Year candidates and provide a pleasant and stimulating hour's revue of contemporary history. Cordially yours,

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