Sidney Hertzberg (1910-84) created Current in New York in May 1960. During his long and distinguished career, Mr. Hertzberg was a renowned journalist for the New York Times, Fortune, Time, Commentary, and Edward R. Murrow's See It Now; represented the United Nations in postwar China and India; and served as executive director of the League for Industrial Democracy. He envisioned Current as the antidote to the newsmedia's "communications crisis" by sifting out the best, most required reading from all available sources for the concerned citizen.