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1952

January	Selected Articles Can Eisenhower save the GOP? By Gordon Scott Harrison Corruption in Washington: And what lies behind it By Blair Bolles Fiction The nutmeg eater: A story By Hazel Heckman The queens of the flowers: A short story By Glen Haley Poetry Percentages By Victor Keller Solemn ceremonial By Earl Richardson Knapp Daniels
February	Selected Articles Bix and Louis By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction Pop goes the alley cat: A story By Wallace Earle Stegner Life is such stuff: A story By Stewart Richardson Poetry Cash me, encash me again! By David Thompson Watson McCord New England By Robert P. Tristram (Robert Peter Tristram) Coffin
March	Selected Articles The mass mind: Our favorite folly By Joyce Cary A bonanza for education By Lister Hill Fiction Captain of the white yacht: A story By Max Steele Zeke Hamblett: A story By Hazel Heckman Poetry “Bread rise!” By Claire Nicolas White The wren By Raymond Henri
April	Selected Articles The pirates' nest of New York By Mary Heaton Vorse Fiction A present for a good girl: A story By Nadine Gordimer Leonie: A story By Dan Wickenden Poetry College library By John Ciardi
May	Selected Articles Truman after seven years By Richard Halworth Rovere Fiction The town mouse: A story By Stephen D. Becker The soft voice of the serpent: A story By Nadine Gordimer Poetry The bog By Allen Kanfer Six sonnets By Leonard Bacon
June	Selected Articles The unsystematic American system By Frederick Lewis Allen Warren of California By Gordon Scott Harrison Fiction Glory in Bridgeville: A story By William Wise Success story By Joyce Cary Poetry The club car By Ogden Nash Reflection on the vernacular By Ogden Nash
July	Selected Articles Laws won't stop strikes By Donald B. Straus An open letter to teachers By Paul Woodring Fiction The sailor By Walter Macken Journey with a lady By Shirley Jackson Poetry The hypothetical snub By Penny Bennett Tigers tell a story (from a Chinese painting) By Martha Sherman Bacon
August	Selected Articles What shall I tell my children? By Priscilla Smith Robertson Graham Greene, pleasure-hater By Douglas Jerrold Fiction The Duchess and the smugs By Pamela Frankau Poetry Last meeting of the Happy Valley Hunt By Edwin Muir The child at the door By Kathleen Raine
September	Selected Articles Boy into man By Bentz Plagemann Yale '36—look at them now By John Hersey Fiction The secret weapon of Joe Smith: A story By Robert Wallace The man on the trestle: A story By Hughes Rudd Poetry The old reformer By Phyllis McGinley The old philanthropist By Phyllis McGinley
October	Selected Articles The man Whistler: Part I By Hesketh Pearson The ordeal of General Ike By David Schoenbrun Fiction The hollow boy By Hortense Calisher The death of the maid: A story By Niccolò Tucci Poetry Poem from a cage By Dilys Laing Goodbye means God be with you By Patricia Miles Martin
November	Selected Articles Flying with a map By Frederick Lewis Allen Politics and TV By Bruce Bliven Fiction Evangelist By Joyce Cary Workout on the river: A story By Roger Shattuck Poetry Waist not, want not By Frederick Lewis Allen O silence, silence By Carolyn Kizer
December	Selected Articles Get away from me with those Christmas gifts By Sylvia Wright The illusion of American omnipotence By D.W. (Denis William) Brogan Fiction The legends of Henry Everett: A story By Louis Auchincloss Chief Rainbow and the kid in Paris: A story By Max Steele Poetry Rendezvous By Anne Goodwin Winslow Conversation piece By Agnes Rogers