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May 1951

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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 SEE ALSO: Readership surveys; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
10-21	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Centennial celebrations, etc.; Crystal Palace (London, England); Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) PDF IMAGES
22-25	Letters/Department Letters On Letter to a family doctor, from January 1951: Letter By Bernard De Voto PDF IMAGES
29-34	Article Why we irritate our allies By James Reston SEE ALSO: Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes; 1945-1953; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Reconstruction (1939-1951); United Nations; World politics PDF IMAGES
35-42	Article The British disagree with us By Ernest Borneman SEE ALSO: Chinese reunification question, 1949-; East Asia; Foreign public opinion, British; Korean War, 1950-1953; Membership; Strategic aspects; United Nations PDF IMAGES
43-49	Article People leave skulls with me By Loren C. Eiseley SEE ALSO: Apache Indians; Archaeologists; Arizona; Collectors and collecting; Craniology; Warfare PDF IMAGES
50-53	The easy chair/Article Spring clearance By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Albert Gallatin and the Oregon problem (Book); American Medical Association; Merk, Frederick; From here to eternity (Book); Historiography; Jones, James; Medicine; Oregon question; Postage stamps; Postal service PDF IMAGES
54-60	Article Can science make sense? By Joseph H. Spigelman SEE ALSO: Philosophy; Relativity (Physics); Specialism (Philosophy) PDF IMAGES
60	Poem Seer By Rolfe Humphries PDF IMAGES
61-64	Fiction Jasper: A story By Emma Smith PDF IMAGES
64	Poem Thin partitions By James Michie PDF IMAGES
65-69	Article The festival year By Paul Moor SEE ALSO: Amsterdam; Amsterdam (Netherlands); Centennial celebrations, etc.; Crystal Palace (London, England); Edinburgh; Edinburgh (Scotland); Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England); Music festivals; Netherlands; Casals, Pablo; Performances PDF IMAGES
70-78	Article What is maturity? By Carl Alfred Lanning Binger SEE ALSO: Emotional maturity; Neuroses; Parent and child PDF IMAGES
78	Article Even pure women do it By Alfred L. Carroll SEE ALSO: Balls (Parties); Waltz PDF IMAGES
79-82	Article The German booby trap By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cold War; Defenses; 1945-1955 PDF IMAGES
83-91	Fiction Bush boy, poor boy By James Aldridge PDF IMAGES
92-100	Article Mrs. Mac of Barnard By Anne L. Goodman SEE ALSO: Administration; Barnard College; Career in education; McIntosh, Millicent Carey; Women in education; Women's colleges PDF IMAGES
101-105	Article Fame, fame, fame By Leonard Lyons SEE ALSO: Biography—Humor; Celebrities; Fame; Journalists; Lyons, Leonard PDF IMAGES
105	Poem Night-music By John Clellon Holmes PDF IMAGES
106-107	After hours/Article After hours By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Antiquarian booksellers; Book auctions; Book collecting PDF IMAGES
107-108	After hours/Article Our self-conscious contemporaries By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Austin; Authors and publishers; Grace at meals; New York times (American newspaper); Queries (Authorship) PDF IMAGES
108-109	After hours/Article Sea change By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Biography; Stern, Isaac; Violinists PDF IMAGES
110-115	New books/Review The new American classics By Charles Poore SEE ALSO: A practical guide for the beginning farmer (Book); After the lost generation (Book); At swim two birds (Book); Canon (Literature); Jenkins, Dorothy Helen; Morison, Elting Elmore; Beck, F.; Farm wanted (Book); Festival (Book); O'Brien, Flann; Perry, George Sessions; Hangsaman (Book); Hilles, Helen Train; Jacobs, Herbert; How to get it from the government (Book); Priestley, J.B. (John Boynton); Michener, James A. (James Albert); Aldridge, John W.; Cowley, Malcolm; Sperber, Manès; Rogers, Matilda; Hoffman, Paul G. (Paul Gray); Peace can be won (Book); Return to paradise (Book); Russian purge and the extraction of confession (Book); Jackson, Shirley; Jones, Stacy V.; Tale of a foolish farmer (Book); The burned bramble (Book); The letters of Theodore Roosevelt: the years of preparation (Book); The stories of Scott Fitzgerald (Book); The weekend gardener (Book); Godin, W. PDF IMAGES
115-118	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Woodham Smith, Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald; Charlie Chaplin (Book); Ambler, Eric; Florence Nightingale (Book); Sykes, Gerald; Whitman, Howard; Judgment on Deltchev (Book); Callaghan, Morley; Wernick, Robert; Terror in the streets (Book); The hill of fortune (Book); The loved and lost (Book); The nice American (Book); Huff, Theodore PDF IMAGES
118-119	Books in brief/Review Book forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A mouse is born (Book); Martin, Alexander Campbell; Ford, Alice; American wildlife and plants (Book); Loos, Anita; Nelson, Arnold L.; Audubon's animals (Book); Barbary shore (Book); Darwin, Charles; Bass, Eduard; Zim, Herbert Spencer; Adams, J. Donald; Steinbeck, John; Literary frontiers (Book); Goldsmith, Margaret; Mailer, Norman; Origin of the species (Book); Requiem for a nun (Book); Salinas Valley (Book); Becker, Stephen D.; The picture primer of indoor gardening (Book); The season of the stranger (Book); Umberto's circus (Book); We fished all night (Book); Motley, Willard; Faulkner, William PDF IMAGES