Harper's Magazine: December 1949

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December 1949

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4	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
6-15	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen PDF IMAGES
16-22	Letters/Department Letters PDF IMAGES
25-37	Article The dogged retreat of the doctors By Milton Sanford Mayer SEE ALSO: American Medical Association; National health insurance; Pressure groups PDF IMAGES
38-42	Article How to make an atom bomb By J.A. Campbell SEE ALSO: Atomic bomb; Nuclear weapons information PDF IMAGES
42	Poem The poet covers his child By Edwin Muir PDF IMAGES
43-46	Fiction The wages of virtue By Mario Prodan PDF IMAGES
46	Article Peace of mind in the mysterious East SEE ALSO: Endorsements in advertising; Hair preparations PDF IMAGES
47-49	Article Uncle Sam's friends are worried By Leslie Roberts SEE ALSO: Foreign economic relations; Foreign public opinion PDF IMAGES
49	Article Help wanted—but no isms SEE ALSO: Recruiting PDF IMAGES
50-60	Cartoon The almighty dollar SEE ALSO: Vishinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich; Cabinet officers; Caricatures and cartoons; Acheson, Dean; Bevin, Ernest; Snyder, John W.(John Wesley); Schuman, Robert; Cripps, Richard Stafford, Sir PDF IMAGES
52-61	Article What we can do under Point Four By Milo Perkins SEE ALSO: Economic assistance, American; Foreign economic relations; Technical assistance, American PDF IMAGES
61	Poem Norway harbor By Stephen Porter Dunn PDF IMAGES
62-67	Article The hoarded island By Clark Sherman Parker SEE ALSO: Natural resources; New Guinea; Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
68-71	The easy chair/Article For the wayward and beguiled By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Cocktails; Martinis PDF IMAGES
72-77	Article Social security poor By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Employee fringe benefits; Social Security; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
78-82	Article Suburbia: Of thee I sing By Phyllis McGinley SEE ALSO: New York Suburban Area; Suburban life PDF IMAGES
83-85	Article Some disconnected notes about drawing By William Mills Ivins SEE ALSO: Aesthetics; Drawing; Expertising PDF IMAGES
85	Poem Back By Weldon Kees PDF IMAGES
86-95	Fiction Vega By John Cheever PDF IMAGES
95-96	Poem The people of the pit By Alfred Hayes PDF IMAGES
97-101	Article What's become of those small planes? By Albert Douglas SEE ALSO: Aircraft industry; Private planes PDF IMAGES
102-103	After hours/Article After hours By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Macy's (Department store); Toys PDF IMAGES
103-104	After hours/Article Pint-size symphony By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Career as conductor of Little Symphony (New York, New York); Conductors (Music); Scherman, Thomas PDF IMAGES
104-105	After hours/Article I remember Mama By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; Whistler, James McNeill; Mothers; On postage stamps; Postage stamps PDF IMAGES
106-116	New books/Review Faulkner, Mrs. Roosevelt, and social history By Richard Halworth Rovere SEE ALSO: Rogers, Agnes; Backgrounds of power (Book); Stettinius, E.R.; Roosevelt, Eleanor; F.D.R., my boss (Book); Legman, G. (Gershon); Tully, Grace; Knight's gambit (Book); Morris, Lloyd R.; Love and death (Book); 27 masters of politics (Book); Not so long ago (Book); Moley, Raymond; Burlingame, Roger; Roosevelt and the Russians (Book); This I remember (Book); Faulkner, William; Women are here to stay (Book) PDF IMAGES
116-122	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A sort of saga (Book); Mauldin, Bill; Celia Amberley (Book); Nicholas, Edward; Carroll, Gladys Hasty; Chase, Mary Ellen; Gallico, Paul; Chandler, Raymond; Steinberg, Saul; The art of living (Book); The autobiography of Will Rogers (Book); The hours and the ages (Book); The little sister (Book); The lonely (Book); The plum tree (Book); Lincoln, Victoria; West of the hill (Book); Rogers, Will PDF IMAGES
122-126	Review Books for children By Frances N. (Frances Nicholson) Chrystie SEE ALSO: Alice's adventures in wonderland (Book); Tresselt, Alvin R.; American adventure (Book); America's Ethan Allen (Book); Norton, Andre; Lang, Andrew; Sperry, Armstrong; Audubon (Book); Billing, Augusta; Bettina; MacDonald, Betty Bard; Black falcon (Book); Both were young (Book); Mitchell, Broadus; Lewis, C. Day; Coggins, Carolyn; Coblentz, Catherine Cate; Cedar's boy (Book); Children's literature; Webb, Clifford; Fisher, Clyde; Cocolo comes to America (Book); Cruise of the Jeannette (Book); Craigie, David; Grew, David; Canfield, Dorothy; Ardizzone, Edward; Ellsberg, Edward; Le Gallienne, Eva; Flossie and Bossie (Book); Foxie (Book); Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Freddy plays football (Book); Litten, Frederic Nelson; Gilbert the gay poodle (Book); Rounds, Glen; Here come the Perkinses (Book); D'Aulaire, Ingri; Tunis, John Roberts; Lance and his first horse (Book); Le Grand; Carroll, Lewis; Pannell, Lucile; L'Engle, Madeleine; De Angeli, Marguerite; Henry, Marguerite; Vance, Marguerite; Petersham, Maud Fuller; Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's magic (Book); My American heritage (Book); Harkin, Philip; Punt formation (Book); Henry, Ralph; Prud'Hommeaux, René; Rodeo (Book); Krauss, Ruth; Sea Star (Book); Something old, something new (Book); Meader, Stephen W. (Stephen Warren); Holbrook, Stewart; Sun up (Book); Sword in the sheath (Book); The black stallion and Satan (Book); The blue cat of Castle Town (Book); The box with red wheels (Book); The door in the wall (Book); The ghost mare (Book); The happy day (Book); The Lees of Arlington (Book); The Otterbury incident (Book); The secret garden (Book); The story of Noah (Book); The sunken forest (Book); The voyage of Luna I (Book); Tim to the rescue (Book); Treasure bayou (Book); Brooks, Walter; Farley, Walter; Young Razzle (Book) PDF IMAGES