Harper's Magazine: October 1939

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October 1939

CONTENTS
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449-561	Article Old people: A rising national problem By Roy Addison Helton SEE ALSO: Aged; Population PDF IMAGES
460-468	Article Roosevelt: The rich man's alibi By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Big business; Business and politics; Career as U.S. president; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) PDF IMAGES
469-472	Fiction The strange noise of Dr. Beldoon By Morris Markey PDF IMAGES
472	Poem Lost world By Hermann Hagedorn PDF IMAGES
473-564	Article How the Wright brothers began By Fred C. (Fred Charters) Kelly SEE ALSO: Aeronautical engineers; Aeronautics; Career as aeronautical engineer; Inventors; Wright, Orville; Wright, Wilbur PDF IMAGES
484	Poem Surmise By Roland English Hartley PDF IMAGES
485-497	Article The future of the British empire By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Colonies; Commonwealth countries PDF IMAGES
498-502	Article Why can't we have perfect teeth? By Walter C. (Walter Clement) Alvarez SEE ALSO: Dental caries PDF IMAGES
503-509	Article Conscience in wartime By Lucille Bernheimer Milner and Groff Conklin SEE ALSO: Conscientious objectors; Forecasting PDF IMAGES
510-519	Article Great Hawaii: The big island By Leonard Bacon SEE ALSO: Hawaii Island (Hawaii); Journeys—Hawaii—Hawaii Island; Bacon, Leonard PDF IMAGES
520-526	Article Why slum clearance may fail By Henry F. (Henry Fowles) Pringle and Alfred Rheinstein SEE ALSO: Housing policy; Housing subsidies; Public housing PDF IMAGES
527-535	Article Music in aspic By Oscar Levant SEE ALSO: Toscanini, Arturo; Career as conductor; Conductors (Music); Symphony orchestras PDF IMAGES
536-543	Article In defense of ghost writing By Seneca Johnson SEE ALSO: Ghostwriting PDF IMAGES
544-552	Article The usefulness of useless knowledge By Abraham Flexner SEE ALSO: Learning and scholarship PDF IMAGES
553-556	One man's meat/Article One man's meat By E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White SEE ALSO: Townsend, Francis E.(Francis Everett); Lecture audiences; Old age pensions; Oratory; Speeches, addresses, etc., American PDF IMAGES
557-560	The easy chair/Article Meditation in fading sunlight By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Ellis, Havelock; Sex customs; Sex (Psychology); Views on sex customs PDF IMAGES
561-571	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Lee Foster Hartman PDF IMAGES