Harper's Magazine: October 1950

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October 1950

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	Illustration [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Centennial celebrations, etc.; Magazine illustration PDF IMAGES
4	Notice To our readers By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Centennial celebrations, etc. PDF IMAGES
7	Article [Untitled Article] By Harry S. Truman SEE ALSO: Centennial celebrations, etc.; Correspondence; Truman, Harry S. PDF IMAGES
8-20	Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By John Atlee Kouwenhoven PDF IMAGES
23-36	Article One hundred years of Harper's By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: American periodicals; Harper & Brothers PDF IMAGES
37-40	Article Hardy centennials By Philip Hamburger SEE ALSO: American periodicals; Centennial celebrations, etc.; Reader's digest (American periodical); The New Yorker (American periodical); Time (American periodical); Vogue (American periodical) PDF IMAGES
41-48	Article Look at the school from the inside By R. L. SEE ALSO: Admission; Aims and objectives; Education, Higher PDF IMAGES
49-58	Article The century By Bernard Augustine De Voto PDF IMAGES
58-59	Poem Precious five By W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden PDF IMAGES
60-73	Article The age of taste By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Downing, A.J. (Andrew Jackson); Aesthetics, American; Architecture, Domestic; Architecture, Modern; Architecture, Queen Anne; Armory Show (1913 : New York, New York); Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.); Eastlake, Charles L. (Charles Locke); Decoration and ornament; Views on aesthetics PDF IMAGES
74-76	Article Women have come a long way By Eleanor Roosevelt SEE ALSO: Biography; Roosevelt, Eleanor; International cooperation; Women's rights PDF IMAGES
77-87	Article Reader, transatlantic By Rebecca, Dame West SEE ALSO: British; Foreign public opinion, British; Journalistic ethics PDF IMAGES
87	Poem To be sung By Peter Robert Edwin Viereck PDF IMAGES
88-96	Fiction The prisoner By Katherine Anne Porter PDF IMAGES
96	Article Railroads before hymns SEE ALSO: Capitalists and financiers; Vanderbilt, Cornelius; Last years—Humor PDF IMAGES
97-144	Collection America on the move PDF IMAGES Article How it looked to the authors and illustrators of Harper's By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Magazine illustration PDF IMAGES
98	Article Steam balloons and bomb carriages By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Utopias in literature PDF IMAGES
99	Article Gold! By William V. (William Vincent) Wells SEE ALSO: Gold discoveries; Gold mines and mining PDF IMAGES
100	Article San Francisco saloon By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Marryat, Frank; Mountains and molehills (Book); San Francisco; San Francisco (Calif.) PDF IMAGES Article “How will it pay?” By David Hunter Strother SEE ALSO: Frontier and pioneer life; Rogues and vagabonds PDF IMAGES
101	Article Soledad By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Missions, Spanish PDF IMAGES Article No obstacles impeded the westward move By Benson John Lossing SEE ALSO: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Utah Expedition, 1857-1858 PDF IMAGES
102	Article Charleston mansion By William Gilmore Simms SEE ALSO: Charleston; Homes and haunts; Mikell, J.T.; Mansions; South Carolina PDF IMAGES Article North Carolina cabin By David Hunter Strother SEE ALSO: Log cabins; Mountain whites (Southern States) PDF IMAGES
103	Article Fashions for January 1855 SEE ALSO: Girls' clothing PDF IMAGES Article Wise men and true patriots By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Causes PDF IMAGES
104	Article A soldier's tent By David Hunter Strother SEE ALSO: Harper's weekly (American periodical); Military life PDF IMAGES Article Sherman's March By George Ward Nichols SEE ALSO: Plantation life; Sherman's March through the Carolinas; South Carolina PDF IMAGES
105	Article Flogging coolies By Edgar Holden SEE ALSO: Flagellation; Forced labor; Macao; Mutiny PDF IMAGES
106	Article Hanging Apaches By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Apache Indians; Arizona; Career as Indian fighter; Hanging; Woolsey, King S.; Wars PDF IMAGES Article Overland Express By William H. (William Henry) Rideing SEE ALSO: Express service; Pony express; Utah; Wars PDF IMAGES
107	Article Virginia City—deviltry and enterprise By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Nevada; Silver mines and mining; Virginia City (Nev.) PDF IMAGES
108	Article “Wild Bill,” having shot his man, turns on the crowd By George Ward Nichols SEE ALSO: Interviews; Springfield; Hickok, Wild Bill PDF IMAGES
109	Article Oil—A new industry By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Career in oil well drilling; Cleveland; Drake, E.L.; Oil well drilling; Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum refineries; Titusville PDF IMAGES
110	Article Oil cooking By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Advertising, Magazine PDF IMAGES Article There she blows By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Melville, Herman; Moby Dick; or, the whale (Book); Nimrod of the sea; or, The American whaleman (Book); Whaling; Davis, William M. (William Morris) PDF IMAGES
111	Article The try-works on a whaler By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Nimrod of the sea; or, The American whaleman (Book); Whaling ships; Davis, William M. (William Morris) PDF IMAGES
112	Article First class stateroom By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Atlantic Ocean; Passenger accommodation; Steamboats; Transatlantic voyages PDF IMAGES Article Immigrant depot By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Castle Garden (New York, New York); Emigration and immigration PDF IMAGES
113	Article Wash-day on a canal boat By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Canal-boats; Inland water transportation; Laundry PDF IMAGES Article To California by Pullman By Charles Nordhoff SEE ALSO: Pullman cars PDF IMAGES
114	Article Child labor By Charles Loring Brace SEE ALSO: Children of immigrants PDF IMAGES Article Soda water By John H. Snively SEE ALSO: Soda fountains PDF IMAGES
115	Article Studying at Vassar By Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett SEE ALSO: Poughkeepsie; Student housing; Vassar College PDF IMAGES
116	Article Newport cottage By Junius Henri Browne SEE ALSO: Architecture, Domestic; Cottages; Housing; Newport; Prices; Rhode Island PDF IMAGES Article The beach at Newport By Junius Henri Browne SEE ALSO: Newport; Newport (R.I.); Rhode Island; Seaside resorts PDF IMAGES
117	Article Coney Island on the bay By Charles Carroll SEE ALSO: Blackface entertainers; Coney Island (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
118	Article Atlanta rebuilt By Ernest Ingersoll SEE ALSO: Atlanta; Atlanta Campaign, 1864; Atlanta (Ga.); Buildings, structures, etc.; Reconstruction PDF IMAGES Article Dallas a-building By Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Taylor SEE ALSO: Cotton trade; Dallas; Population PDF IMAGES
119	Article A Colorado sheep ranch By Augustus Allen Hayes SEE ALSO: Colorado; Sheep ranches PDF IMAGES Article Geographical survey in the Sierras By William H. (William Henry) Rideing SEE ALSO: Nevada; Sierra Nevada; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); Surveying; Tahoe, Lake PDF IMAGES
120	Article Plowing two-mile furrows By Charles Carleton Coffin and Henry Van Dyke SEE ALSO: Montana; North Dakota; Wheat farmers PDF IMAGES
121	Article Milwaukee grain elevator By Ernest Ingersoll SEE ALSO: Grain elevators; Milwaukee PDF IMAGES Article Cowboy riding the fence-line By Lee Cohen Harby SEE ALSO: Cowboys; Wire fencing PDF IMAGES
122	Article Dakota sod house By Julian Ralph and Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman SEE ALSO: Frontier and pioneer life; Great Plains; Sod houses PDF IMAGES Article Hereditary beauty By Eugene Lemoine Didier SEE ALSO: Baltimore; McTavish, Emily; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Portraits PDF IMAGES
123	Article New York shop girls By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Clerks (Retail trade); Wages; Women clerks (Retail trade) PDF IMAGES
124	Article The artistic young lady By M.E.W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood SEE ALSO: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.); Decoration and ornament; Interior decoration PDF IMAGES
125	Article Look out for the locomotive! By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Pullman cars; Right of way PDF IMAGES
126	Article The levee at New Orleans By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Creoles; Ethnic attitudes; Levees; New Orleans; New Orleans (La.) PDF IMAGES
127	Article The machine takes over By Howard Mudge Newhall SEE ALSO: Industrial revolution; Shoemakers; Wages PDF IMAGES Article Scientific research By Theophil Mitchell Prudden SEE ALSO: Endowment of research PDF IMAGES
128	Article C.S. Reinhart's “bourgeois epic” By Henry James SEE ALSO: Reinhart, Charles Stanley; Illustrators; Portraits; Seaside resorts PDF IMAGES
129	Article The influence of French art on an American student in Paris By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Advertising, Magazine; Art, American; Expatriate painters; French influences PDF IMAGES
130	Article Gentlemanly sport . . . By William Garden Blaikie SEE ALSO: Golf; North Berwick; Tennis PDF IMAGES
131	Article . . . and manly sport By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Football; Football injuries; University of Pennsylvania PDF IMAGES Article Yachtsmen having a cocktail By J.D. Jerrold (James Douglas Jerrold) Kelley SEE ALSO: Cocktails; Long Island; Yachting PDF IMAGES
132	Article The rise of the country club and the suburban home By Caspar Whitney SEE ALSO: Brooklyn (New York, New York); Country clubs; Suburban homes PDF IMAGES
133	Article Homestead—1894 By Charles Henry White and R.R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker SEE ALSO: Iron and steel workers; Pittsburgh; Steel-works PDF IMAGES
134	Article War By Frederic Remington and Sidney Augustus Staunton SEE ALSO: Journalists; Spanish-American War, 1898 PDF IMAGES
135	Article The rural trolley By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Rural transit; Street-railroads PDF IMAGES Article The electric kitchen—1896 By Jacob Abbott and R.R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker SEE ALSO: Electric lighting; Household appliances, Electric PDF IMAGES
136	Article Speed on wheels By Edward Howland SEE ALSO: Bicycles; Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia; Portraits PDF IMAGES Article Almost flying By Maurice Maeterlinck SEE ALSO: Automobile driving; Ballooning PDF IMAGES
138	Article Pioneer of the pathless air By Guy Wetmore Carryl SEE ALSO: Santos-Dumont, Alberto; Ballooning; Career in aviation; Paris (France) PDF IMAGES
139	Article Americans—abroad and at home By W.L. (William Livingston) Alden and Booth Tarkington SEE ALSO: Midwesterners PDF IMAGES
140	Article Wife vs. secretary By Grace Ellery Channing SEE ALSO: House furnishings; Lamps; Secretaries PDF IMAGES
141	Article Skyscrapers By Edward Sandford Martin SEE ALSO: Skyscrapers PDF IMAGES Article . . . and slums By Charles Henry White SEE ALSO: Ragpickers; Slums PDF IMAGES
142	Article Work . . . By Florence L. Sanville SEE ALSO: Women silk industry workers PDF IMAGES Article . . . and play By Harrison Rhodes SEE ALSO: Hotels; Jazz; 1941-1950 PDF IMAGES
143	Article . . . and Hollywood By Harrison Rhodes SEE ALSO: Hollywood (Calif.); Motion pictures PDF IMAGES
144	Article The age of flight arrives By Burton Jesse Hendrick SEE ALSO: Aerial operations; Interviews; Marne, 1st Battle of the, France, 1914; Marne, 2nd Battle of the, France, 1918; Wright, Orville PDF IMAGES
145-160	Article The big change: The coming—and disciplining—of industrialiam, 1850-1950 By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Antitrust investigations; Class consciousness; Cost and standard of living; Industrial relations; Industrialization; Mass production; Populism; Social legislation; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
160	Article In defense of “post office” By Samuel Osgood SEE ALSO: Balls (Parties); Indoor games; Kissing PDF IMAGES
161-172	Article Constant reader: Illustrations from earlier issues of Harper's By Elmer Holmes Davis PDF IMAGES
172	Article But the West has a future By Francis E. Prendergast SEE ALSO: Frontier and pioneer life; Migration, Internal PDF IMAGES
176-198	Article The U.S.A. from the air By Wolfgang Langewiesche SEE ALSO: Aerial exploration; Airplanes; Emergency maneuvers (Aeronautics); Landforms; Piloting; Private planes PDF IMAGES
198	Article Paging M. Sartre By Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé PDF IMAGES
200-214	Fiction A name for the city By William Faulkner PDF IMAGES
214	The easy chair/Article Cooler in the suburbs By Junius Henri Browne SEE ALSO: Suburban life PDF IMAGES
215-220	The easy chair/Article The constant function By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Journalistic ethics; “The easy chair” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES
221-228	Article The villains By Gerald W. (Gerald White) Johnson SEE ALSO: Authoritarianism; Capitalists and financiers; Democracy; Political corruption; Toleration PDF IMAGES
228	Article Our own exposed deformity By George Parsons Lathrop SEE ALSO: Ethics; Representative government and representation; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
229-246	Article Mountains of paper By Roger Burlingame SEE ALSO: American periodicals; Archives; Book industries and trade; Catalogs; Circulation; Direct marketing; Periodicals, Publishing of; Printing; Waste paper PDF IMAGES
246	Article 1984 and all that By Walter Lionel George SEE ALSO: Arts; Science and state PDF IMAGES
248	Collection Coming events cast their shadows PDF IMAGES Article Psychiatry, 1876 By Austin Flint SEE ALSO: Criminal psychology; Forecasts; Twentieth century PDF IMAGES Article New Deal, fair deal, 1897 By Francis Newton Thorpe SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Forecasts; 1865-1918; Twentieth century PDF IMAGES Article Pearl Harbor, 1893 By Carl Schurz SEE ALSO: Defenses; Forecasts; Hawaii; Military policy; Twentieth century PDF IMAGES
250-264	Article The years of my life By Thomas Mann, Heinz Norden (Trans.), and Ruth Norden (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Authors, German; Biography; Cold War; Literature; Revolution, 1917-1921; Mann, Thomas PDF IMAGES
266	Article When the end justified the means SEE ALSO: Bustles PDF IMAGES
268-277	Article A century of books By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Best books; Canon (Literature) PDF IMAGES
277	Article The centennial cover SEE ALSO: Centennial celebrations, etc.; Magazine illustration PDF IMAGES
278-287	New books/Article The writer's lot By Richard Halworth Rovere SEE ALSO: American literature; Melville, Herman; Views on American literature PDF IMAGES
287	Article The Russian danger SEE ALSO: Operational readiness; Russia. Army PDF IMAGES
288	Article The pardonable ballet SEE ALSO: Audiences; Ballet; Performing arts PDF IMAGES Article Come and get it By Gulian C. (Gulian Crommelin) Verplanck SEE ALSO: Table etiquette PDF IMAGES

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