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1947

January	Selected Articles The West against itself By Bernard Augustine De Voto More roof patchers By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction The saint By V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett The hope chest By Jean Stafford Poetry North coast By Hortense Flexner “Due to the truck strike . . .” By Russell Lynes
February	Selected Articles Arnold Toynbee: The boldest historian By Granville Hicks A railroad man thinks out loud By Roger E. Tornell Fiction Pocock passes By V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett The loyal opposition By Lewis Carroll Poetry The waves By James Hayford Lines to a daughter—any daughter By Agnes Rogers
March	Selected Articles This time and last time: Postwar eras I and II By Frederick Lewis Allen Broadway and its intelligentsia By Eric Bentley Fiction The man upstairs By Ray Bradbury The sailor By V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett Poetry Tourist and turtle: Gulf of Mexico By Ben Belitt Exile By Robert P. Tristram (Robert Peter Tristram) Coffin
April	Selected Articles Our constituency By Frederick Lewis Allen Encounters between civilizations By Arnold Joseph Toynbee Fiction The white circle By John Bell Clayton A sign for Selina By John Downing Weaver Poetry The planted poet By Peter Robert Edwin Viereck Sonnet By Edna St. Vincent Millay
May	Selected Articles The lost liberals: Can they find a new road map? By John Fischer Sure, I could produce more By Carlton Bradshaw Fiction Sparrow's last jump By Elliott Grennard The pleasure of a good grumble By Anthony Trollope Poetry Symphony By Mary-Scott Willour Song By Patrick MacDonogh
June	Selected Articles [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen The taste-makers By Russell Lynes Fiction The professor and the puli By Robert Morse Grandma, grandpa, and Riverside Road By Victoria Lincoln Poetry Under which lyre: A reactionary tract for the times By W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden Lightning By Mary-Scott Willour
July	Selected Articles Henry Ford: Success and failure By Peter Ferdinand Drucker Britain's next big crisis By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan Fiction The gun on the table By John Watson End of May By Jean Byers Poetry Capital city: Atomic age By Lawrence Perry Spingarn Well said, old mole By Peter Robert Edwin Viereck
August	Selected Articles Wanted: A plane that can slow down By Wynn Laurence LePage Fiction Visitor from Philadelphia By John Bell Clayton Maybe just a little one By R. Bretnor Poetry Jeremiad By Oscar Williams
September	Selected Articles [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen Who is loyal to America? By Henry Steele Commager Fiction The collection By V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett The thread By Rachel MacKenzie Poetry Spring dusk, San Francisco By Eric Barker Connecticut River—early March By Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling
October	Selected Articles The meaning of treason By Rebecca, Dame West Austria: Once liberated, twice shy By John W. (John Womack) Vandercook Fiction Proof positive By Graham Greene Treat the natives kindly By John Burgan Poetry To my love By Robert Huff Lake Superior coast: Train window By Charles Bruce
November	Selected Articles Our foreign trade crisis By Robert L. Heilbroner Britain in the shadow By Barbara Ward Fiction Never hit a cripple By Maxwell Arnold A drive in the country By Graham Greene Poetry Quiet, please! By Agnes Rogers Twilight of the outward life: Imitated from Hofmannsthal's Ballade By Peter Robert Edwin Viereck
December	Selected Articles The military move in By Hanson Weightman Baldwin The sex habits of American men: Some of the findings of the Kinsey report By Albert Deutsch Fiction Benny and the tar-baby By John Watson The light of day By Elizabeth Taylor Poetry Desert vineyard By Cecil Gray Pacific door By Earle Birney

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