I remember a magazine short story from long ago, probably in the late
50's or early '60s.  I'm pretty sure it was from Look or Saturday Home
Journal.  It was called "The Man Who Wrote to Presidents", and the
point of the story (as I now reconstruct it 40 years later) concerned
the pointlessness of writing to presidents... or, by extensions,
highly placed people... with any real expectation that anything would
come of it.  I'd pay $5 for a reference to the article (source,
publication date, exact title, author), plus another $5 for a copy of
it.

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Clarification of Question by brad23ny-ga on 18 May 2003 22:55 PDT

I have no absolute need to find the story in the original.  If I can
find it in a alter anthology, that would also be fine

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 19 May 2003 06:40 PDT

Are you perhaps thinking of "The Lazlo Letters", a compilation of
correspondence by Don Novello (who is best known as Father Guido
Sarducci)?

"The Lazlo Letters: The Amazing, Real-Life, Actual Correspondence of
Lazlo Toth, American"
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1563052857/qid%3D996862932/sr%3D2-1/ref%3Daps%5Fsr%5Fb%5F1%5F1/104-3515813-0090313

I haven't seen a reference to a Look or Saturday Home Journal article,
but the timing is at least fairly close to what you remember.

A longshot but here are synopsis' of various "Look" magazines from the
50's.  Do any of these issues ring a bell?

http://www.woodenski.com/2neat/look.html

Unfortunately neither of these suggestions is what I'm looking for,
but thanks to both of you.