Harper's Magazine: April 1951

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April 1951

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4	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
6	Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Political parties; Politics, Practical PDF IMAGES Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Cushing, Frank H.; Portraits PDF IMAGES
18	Personal and otherwise/Article The acid test By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Circulation; Correspondence; Seattle; Washington (State); Conway, William PDF IMAGES
20-27	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from February 1951: Letter By William Zuckerman On Letter to a family doctor, from January 1951: Letter By David Frederick PDF IMAGES
29-36	Article Who votes isolationist and why? By Samuel Lubell SEE ALSO: Ethnic attitudes; German Americans; Middle West; 1945-1953; Neutrality; Nonpartisan League; North Dakota; Voting research PDF IMAGES
37-42	Article Can we vaccinate against polio? By Howard A. (Howard Atkinson) Howe SEE ALSO: Poliomyelitis; Vaccination; Vaccination of children; Virus diseases PDF IMAGES
43-48	Article Gaudy to drab to gaudy By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Clothing and dress; Cowboys; Men's clothing PDF IMAGES
49-56	Article The inconspicuous Mr. Finletter By Albert Douglas SEE ALSO: Air power; Career as U.S. secretary of Air Force; Deterrence (Strategy); Military policy; Operational readiness; Finletter, Thomas Knight; United States. Air Force PDF IMAGES
56	Poem “Entertainment in the parlor at 8:30”: By Babette Deutsch PDF IMAGES
57-67	Fiction Aufwiedersehen abend: A story By Kay Boyle PDF IMAGES
68-71	The easy chair/Article Whiskey is for patriots By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Patriotism; Whiskey industry PDF IMAGES
72-73	Collection Rhyme or reason By Peter De Vries PDF IMAGES Poem Literary revivals By Peter De Vries PDF IMAGES Poem On real property By Peter De Vries PDF IMAGES Poem Greenwich Village revisited By Peter De Vries PDF IMAGES Poem To a butterfly, pursued for my collection By Peter De Vries PDF IMAGES Poem Fowler's song By Peter De Vries PDF IMAGES
73	Poem Sacred and profane love, or there's nothing new under the moon either By Peter De Vries PDF IMAGES
74-80	Article Getting right with Lincoln By David Herbert Donald SEE ALSO: Lincoln, Abraham; Influence; Legends; 1865-1933; 1945-1953; Political psychology; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
80	Article Aide memoire to certain foreign offices By Niccolò Machiavelli SEE ALSO: Military policy; 16th century; Neutrality PDF IMAGES
81-92	Article The nature of the universe: Part V. The expanding universe By Fred, Sir Hoyle SEE ALSO: Astrophysics; Cosmology; Evolution; Expanding universe; Future life; Galaxies PDF IMAGES
92	Article Time of turbulence SEE ALSO: History of the Reformation in Scotland (Book); Knox, John; Reformation; Religious tolerance PDF IMAGES
93-96	Fiction Tale for a deaf ear: A story By Elizabeth Enright PDF IMAGES
97-104	Article Must we pay more for everything? By E.A. (Emanuel Alexandrovich) Goldenweiser SEE ALSO: Federal Reserve banks; Inflation (Finance); 1945-1960; Price regulation; United States. Dept. of Treasury; Wage-price policy PDF IMAGES
104	Poem Storm warnings By Adrienne Cecile Rich PDF IMAGES
105-106	After hours/Article After hours By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Bowling; Pinsetters PDF IMAGES
106-108	After hours/Article Miracle on 58th Street By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Censorship; Spellman, Francis; Motion pictures; Spaeth, Otto L.; Rossellini, Roberto; Views on motion picture censorship PDF IMAGES
109	Poem New twilight on old gods (symmetrics) By David Thompson Watson McCord PDF IMAGES
110-114	New books/Review Diverse correlations By Charles Poore SEE ALSO: Moravia, Alberto; Croce, Benedetto; Conjugal love (Book); Croce, the king and the Allies (Book); Daiches, David; Waters, Ethel; MacInnes, Helen; His eye is on the sparrow (Book); Elagin, IUrii; Introduction to poetry (Book); Conant, James Bryant; Gerard, James Watson; Dickson, Lovat; Van Doren, Mark; Bennett, Mildred R.; My first eighty-three years in America (Book); Neither five nor three (Book); Notes on a horse thief (Book); Richard Hillary (Book); Rock Wagram (Book); Science and common sense (Book); Lewis, Sinclair; Taming of the arts (Book); The world of Willa Cather (Book); Willa Cather: a critical introduction (Book); Faulkner, William; Saroyan, William; World so wide (Book) PDF IMAGES
114-118	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A game of hide and seek (Book); A man gets around (Book); Battle submerged: submarine fighters of World War II (Book); Lockwood, Charles A.; Sewell, Elizabeth; Taylor, Elizabeth; Cotterell, Geoffrey; Cope, Harley Francis; McCord, James B.; Hilton, James; Yaffe, James; McNulty, John; Harriman, Margaret Case; Morning journey (Book); My patients were Zulus (Book); Poor cousin Evelyn (Book); Sink 'em all: submarine warfare in the Pacific (Book); Strait and narrow (Book); The dividing of time (Book); The vicious circle (Book); Karig, Walter PDF IMAGES Books in brief/Review Book forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A soldier's story (Book); A western journal (Book); Schweitzer, Albert; Partridge, Bellamy; Strauss, Bert; Beyond the Marshall plan (Book); Atkinson, Brooks; Dressler, David; Graham, Elinor; Beck, F.; Strauss, Frances; Schwed, Fred; Michener, James A. (James Albert); Groth, John; Barrymore, Lionel; Biancolli, Louis Leopold; Garden, Mary; Mary Garden's story (Book); My window looks down east (Book); New ways to better meetings (Book); Bradley, Omar Nelson; Once around the sun (Book); Parole chief, the story of my career in crime (Book); Hoffman, Paul G. (Paul Gray); Peace can be won (Book); Return to paradise (Book); Russian purge and the extraction of confession (Book); Salad days (Book); Spender, Stephen; Studio Asia (Book); The pleasure was all mine: the journal of an undisappointed man (Book); Wolfe, Thomas; Godin, W.; We Barrymores (Book); World within world (Book) PDF IMAGES