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January 1949

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4	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
6-8	Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: 1948-; Public opinion polls PDF IMAGES
8	Personal and otherwise/Article Lux et veritas SEE ALSO: Atomic bomb PDF IMAGES Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen PDF IMAGES
13	Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise SEE ALSO: Cookery, Chinese PDF IMAGES
14-19	Letters/Department Letters On The easy chair, from November 1948: Note/correction On Time out for head-hanging, from October 1948: Letter By William P. Biedelman On Season to taste, from December 1948: Letter By Clem D. Easly PDF IMAGES
23-30	Article What are wars for? Or, how not to do it next time By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Military policy; 1945-1953 PDF IMAGES
30	Poem Eden By Julia McGrane PDF IMAGES
31-40	Article When Conan Doyle was Sherlock Holmes: The case of George Edalji By John Dickson Carr SEE ALSO: Animal welfare; Criminal investigation; False arrest; False arrest and imprisonment, 1903; Edalji, George; Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir; Views on arrest and imprisonment of George Edalji PDF IMAGES
40	Poem The paper rose By Lloyd Frankenberg PDF IMAGES
41-48	Article Europe's great last chance By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Marshall Plan; Reconstruction (1939-1951) PDF IMAGES
49-54	Fiction The man who walked through walls By Marcel Aymé, E. Teichner (Trans.), and M. Teichner (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
55-60	Article A million unknown diabetics By Charles Lester Walker PDF IMAGES
60	Article Every prospect pleases By Calvin Coolidge SEE ALSO: Messages PDF IMAGES
61-71	Article Morgan's billion-dollar adventure By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Biography; Capitalists and financiers; Morgan, John Pierpont PDF IMAGES
72-77	Fiction Arma virumque cano By Jessamyn West PDF IMAGES
77	Article Election post-mortem—1946 By S. Burton Heath SEE ALSO: Elections; Republicans PDF IMAGES
78-84	Article How Kefauver beat Crump: The story of a Southern victory By Charles Edmundson SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Crump, Edward Hull; Elections; Kefauver, Estes PDF IMAGES
85-93	Article The Middle East over the wingtip By Wolfgang Langewiesche SEE ALSO: Air travel; Airplanes; Career as air pilot; Journeys—Middle East; The Middle East; Piloting; Langewiesche, Wolfgang PDF IMAGES
94-97	The easy chair/Article The easy chair By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: America; Folklore PDF IMAGES
98-107	Article The no man's land of Asia By Christopher Rand SEE ALSO: Asia, Central; Boundaries PDF IMAGES
108-109	After hours/Article After hours By Frederick Lewis Allen PDF IMAGES
109-110	After hours/Review Baby talk By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Child actors; Musicals PDF IMAGES
110-111	After hours/Review Joan through the looking glass By Frederick Lewis Allen PDF IMAGES
112-116	New books/Review On the state of the language By Jacques Barzun SEE ALSO: Crone, Anne; Machen, Arthur; Bridie Steen (Book); Johnson, Burges; Federal prose: how to write in and/or for Washington (Book); Lilge, Frederick; Great novelists and their novels (Book); Masterson, James R. (James Raymond); Jewkes, John; Lost art of profanity (Book); Ordeal by planning (Book); Out of the silence (Book); Mahoney, Patrick; Wilson, Richard Albert; Beauvoir, Simone de; Style, Literary; Tales of horror and the supernatural (Book); The abuse of learning (Book); The blood of others (Book); The miraculous birth of language (Book); Usage; Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) PDF IMAGES
116-119	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Laing, Dilys; Merrick, Elliott; Escape from Vermont (Book); Berto, Giuseppe; Green Mountain farm (Book); Shaw, Irwin; Gordon, James; Mitchell, Joseph; Old Mr. Flood (Book); Spewack, Samuel; Stalingrad (Book); The busy, busy people (Book); The great year (Book); The old beauty and others (Book); The sky is red (Book); The young lions (Book); Plivier, Theodor; Cather, Willa PDF IMAGES