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April 1950

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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 PDF IMAGES
8-23	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen PDF IMAGES
12-112	After hours/Review Young man with a piano By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Biography; Beiderbecke, Bix; Carmichael, Hoagy; In motion pictures; Jazz musicians PDF IMAGES
24-29	Letters/Department Letters On Late thoughts and early novels, from January 1950: Letter By “a Boston lawyer” PDF IMAGES
31-35	Article How to elect a Republican By Herbert Agar SEE ALSO: The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
36-40	Article Forecasting the 1950 elections By Louis Hyman Bean SEE ALSO: Election forecasting; 1945-1953; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
41-49	Fiction The blue-winged teal By Wallace Earle Stegner PDF IMAGES
50-59	Article Hollywood faces the fifties: Part I. The lost enthusiasm By John Houseman SEE ALSO: Motion picture audiences; Motion picture industry PDF IMAGES
59	Fiction Accused and accuser in Lilliput By Jonathan Swift PDF IMAGES
60-65	Article Two boys on a mountain By William O. (William Orville) Douglas SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Mountaineering; Portraits; Teenage boys; Douglas, William O. (William Orville) PDF IMAGES
66-69	Article A cataclysm threatens California By Alfred M. Cooper SEE ALSO: Erosion; Floods; Forecasting PDF IMAGES
70-75	Article Those lovely figures By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Statistical services; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
76-83	Article China in the long haul By Nathaniel Peffer SEE ALSO: Communism; 1949- PDF IMAGES
84-88	Fiction Death of the Zulu By Uys Krige PDF IMAGES
89-96	Article Rebop, bebop, and bop By Marshall Winslow Stearns SEE ALSO: Jazz PDF IMAGES
96	Poem Aunt Alice in April By William H. Matchett PDF IMAGES
97-100	The easy chair/Article The Christopherson papers By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Academic writing; Errors, inventions, etc.; Historians; Historiography PDF IMAGES
101-108	Article Marquand of Newburyport By Granville Hicks SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Marquand, John P. (John Phillips); Newburyport PDF IMAGES
109-110	After hours/Article After hours By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; Letters; Pierpont Morgan Library (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
114-124	New books/Review American politics: “Iss diss a system?” By Richard Halworth Rovere SEE ALSO: An essay for our times (Book); Levi, Carlo; Disaster through air power (Book); Johnson, Gerald W. (Gerald White); Hughes, H. Stuart (Henry Stuart); Commager, Henry Steele; Agar, Herbert; Incredible tale (Book); Burnham, James; Andrews, Marshall; Of fear and freedom (Book); Churchill, Winston, Sir; The American mind (Book); The coming defeat of communism (Book); The grand alliance (Book); The price of union (Book) PDF IMAGES
124-127	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Standen, Anthony; West, Anthony; Decision in Germany (Book); Williams, Eric; Brockmann, Georg; Humanity and happiness (Book); Davidman, Joy; Clay, Lucius D.; Lyrics (Book); Kennedy, Margaret; Men of stones (Book); Peale, Norman Vincent; Hammerstein, Oscar; Warner, Rex; Science is a sacred cow (Book); Son of the giant (Book); Lamkin, Speed; Engstrand, Stuart David; The art of real happiness (Book); The feast (Book); The vintage (Book); The wooden horse (Book); Tiger in the garden (Book); Weeping bay (Book) PDF IMAGES