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January 1950

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4	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
6	Personal and otherwise/Notice Personal and otherwise By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Harper's Leadership Panel PDF IMAGES Personal and otherwise/Article One touch of Venus By Frederick Lewis Allen PDF IMAGES
8	Personal and otherwise/Article Laurels for 1949 By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Awards PDF IMAGES Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen PDF IMAGES
14-16	Letters/Department Letters On The sexes and the writers, from November 1949: Note/correction On “Chez Atmosphere”, from November 1949: Letter By Larry Moore PDF IMAGES
19-26	Article The day the sun stood still By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Bible; Velikovsky, Immanuel; Planets; Worlds in collision (Book) PDF IMAGES
27-34	Article Insomnia in Whitehall By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Labour Party (Great Britain); 1945-1964; Socialism PDF IMAGES
34	Poem The seagull By Uys Krige PDF IMAGES
35-41	Fiction Hereby hangs a tale By Max Steele PDF IMAGES
42-45	The easy chair/Article Parable of the lost chance By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Friends and associates; Mothers; Parenting PDF IMAGES
47-53	Article The ordeal of Dr. Condon By Louis Welborn SEE ALSO: Condon, Edward Uhler; Espionage, Soviet; Investigation by House Un-American Activities Committee; Nuclear physicists; Science and state; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities PDF IMAGES
54-62	Article The eagle without the swastika By Fred M. Hechinger SEE ALSO: Denazification; Military government; 1945-1990 PDF IMAGES
62	Poem August light By Katharine Strelsky PDF IMAGES
63-70	Article The man who makes weather By Charles Lester Walker SEE ALSO: Contributions in weather control; Meteorologists; Schaefer, Vincent J.; Weather control PDF IMAGES
71-78	Fiction Breath of air By Michael Jaffé PDF IMAGES
78	Article Scientific discussion—U.S.S.R. style SEE ALSO: Ideology; Science and state PDF IMAGES
79-86	Article Senator Flanders: Intelligent conservative By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Conservatism; 1945-1953; Political and social views; Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward) PDF IMAGES
87-92	Article How to save lives in traffic By Bruce Bliven SEE ALSO: Traffic accidents; Traffic safety PDF IMAGES
92	Poem A portrait of the artist: For Katherine Anne Porter By William Miller Abrahams PDF IMAGES
93-96	Article Why communists are valuable By Gerald W. (Gerald White) Johnson SEE ALSO: Communism; Communists; 1945-1953 PDF IMAGES
96-97	Poem Charlottesville: The age of reason By Sylvia Stallings PDF IMAGES
98-99	After hours/Article After hours By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Portrait photography PDF IMAGES
99-100	After hours/Article Falling idol By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Autry, Gene; Performances—New York (State)—New York; Rodeos PDF IMAGES
100-101	After hours/Article American landscape I By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Automobile travel; Landscape; Scenic byways PDF IMAGES
102-107	New books/Review Late thoughts and early novels By Richard Halworth Rovere SEE ALSO: A long day's dying (Book); Caldwell, Erskine; Five novels (Book); Buechner, Frederick; Hogg, James; Wilson, Leon; Male and female (Book); Mead, Margaret; Bowles, Paul; Place called Estherville (Book); Graves, Robert; Lowry, Robert; Firbank, Ronald; Sinners, come away (Book); The asphalt jungle (Book); The big cage (Book); The islands of unwisdom (Book); The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner (Book); The sheltering sky (Book); Burnett, W.R. (William Riley) PDF IMAGES
107-110	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Koestler, Arthur; Call it treason (Book); Howe, George; Killers of the dream (Book); Smith, Lillian Eugenia; Algren, Nelson; Promise and fulfilment: Palestine 1917-1949 (Book); The man with the golden arm (Book) PDF IMAGES