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September 1952

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Bernarda Bryson SEE ALSO: Boarding school students PDF IMAGES
4-15	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Political conventions PDF IMAGES
16-18	Letters/Department Letters On “Of Thee I Sing” I sing, from July 1952: Letter By Ray Bradbury PDF IMAGES
21-28	Article Yale '36—look at them now By John Hersey SEE ALSO: Alumni and alumnae; Class reunions; College graduates; Directories; New Haven; Social surveys; Yale University PDF IMAGES
28	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
29-35	Article Boy into man By Bentz Plagemann SEE ALSO: Boarding school students PDF IMAGES
35	Collection A quartet of elders By Phyllis McGinley PDF IMAGES Poem The old reformer By Phyllis McGinley PDF IMAGES Poem The old philanthropist By Phyllis McGinley PDF IMAGES Poem The old actor By Phyllis McGinley PDF IMAGES Poem The old beauty By Phyllis McGinley PDF IMAGES
36-43	Article The turning point for Lewis & Clark By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Missouri River; Territorial expansion PDF IMAGES
44-49	Article Krilium and its rivals By Harland Manchester SEE ALSO: Monsanto Company PDF IMAGES
49	Poem Safari By Evelyn Perkins Ames PDF IMAGES
50-53	Fiction The secret weapon of Joe Smith: A story By Robert Wallace PDF IMAGES
54-61	Article De Gasperi: Statesman of the dark hours By George E. Jones SEE ALSO: De Gasperi, Alcide; Career as Italian prime minister; Christian democratic parties; Elections; 1945-1976; Prime ministers; Statesmen PDF IMAGES
62-65	Article “I can't afford my wife's job”: A case history of our time By Frances McFadden SEE ALSO: Dual-career families; Husbands; Married women; Work and family PDF IMAGES
66-77	Fiction The man on the trestle: A story By Hughes Rudd PDF IMAGES
78-81	The easy chair/Article The end of the stalwarts By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Chauvinism and jingoism; Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso) PDF IMAGES
82-90	Article Tuxedo Park—black tie By Cleveland Amory SEE ALSO: Capitalists and financiers; Hunting lodges; Resorts PDF IMAGES
90	Article Footnote to the class struggle SEE ALSO: Banks and banking; Credit; Finance, Personal; Iron and steel workers; Steel industry; Strikes and lockouts PDF IMAGES
91	After hours/Article Country gentleman By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Corn; Hybrid corn; Quality PDF IMAGES After hours/Article “Of her we sing” By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Actresses; Correspondence; Gershwin, George; Moran, Lois; Musicals; Of thee I sing (Play); Performances; Bradbury, Ray PDF IMAGES
92	After hours/Article Ten-strike at Torquilstone By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Ivanhoe (Motion picture); Motion pictures; Motion pictures and literature; Plots, themes, etc. PDF IMAGES After hours/Article Summer culture By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Career in dance; Shawn, Ted PDF IMAGES
94-99	New books/Review The new reviewer By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: After many a summer dies the swan (Book); Moravia, Alberto; Huxley, Aldous; Còccioli, Carlo; Catherine Carter (Book); Counter-revolution of science (Book); Critics; Powell, Dawn; Don Camillo and his flock (Book); Hayek, F.A.; Ommanney, F.D. (Francis Downes); Chaucer, Geoffrey; Household, Geoffrey; Guareschi, Giovanni; Overstreet, H.A. (Harry Allen); Lamb, Harold; Heaven and earth (Book); Jean Santeuil (Book); Fischer, Louis; Proust, Marcel; Coghill, Nevill; Pinto, Oreste; Origins of European thought (Book); Johnson, Pamela Hansford; Onians, Richard Broxton; Raynolds, Robert; Spy-catcher (Book); Sunday, Monday and always (Book); Tales of adventurers (Book); The Canterbury tales (Book); The fancy dress party (Book); The great enterprise (Book); The life and death of Stalin (Book); The shoals of Capricorn (Book); The silver chalice (Book); The sinner of St. Ambrose (Book); Theodora and the emperor (Book); Constain, Thomas PDF IMAGES
99-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Rowan, Carl Thomas; Daniel, Hawthorne; Head against the wall (Book); Bazin, Hervé; De Hartog, Jan; Joachim of Babylon (Book); Judge Medina (Book); Wertenbaker, Lael Tucker; Lament for four virgins (Book); Freydberg, Margaret Howe; Gijsen, Marnix; South of freedom (Book); The bride (Book); The distant shore (Book) PDF IMAGES
101	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A pictorial history of American sports (Book); Abraham Lincoln: a biography (Book); Always yes (Book); Thomas, Benjamin Platt; Crosby, Caresse; Baker, Carlos; Robinson, Edgar Eugene; Wilson, Edmund; Fanny Brawne (Book); Freidel, Frank Burt; Franklin D. Roosevelt: the apprenticeship (Book); Hemingway: the writer as artist (Book); Randall, J.G. (James Garfield); O'Connor, Jack; Richardson, Joanna; Durant, John; Hutchens, John K.; Barnes, Joseph; Lincoln, a picture story of his life (Book); Lincoln the President (Book); Mary Lincoln, biography of a marriage (Book); Oscar Wilde: a present time appraisal (Book); Bettmann, Otto; Stein, Ralph; Roosevelt and his influence: a contemporary appraisal (Book); Randall, Ruth Painter; Sport cars of the world (Book); Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer); Lorant, Stefan; The American twenties, a literary panorama (Book); The big game rifle (Book); The shores of light, a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties (Book); Willkie (Book) PDF IMAGES
102-103	The new recordings/Review The new recordings By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Rother, Artur; Bach: Cantata #210; Cantata #106; Cantata #84; Cantata #198 (Sound recording); Beethoven: Piano concerto #4. Franck: Symphonic variations. Mozart: Piano concerto #23 in A (Sound recording); Berlin Radio Symphony; Franck, César; Debussy, Claude; Debussy: Preludes; Children's corner suite; Suite Bergamesque. Schumann: Scenes from childhood. Brahms: Three intermezzi (Sound recording); Karajan, Herbert von; Scherchen, Hermann; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Brahms, Johannes; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Strauss, Richard; Schumann, Robert; Strauss: Taillefer; Divertimento after Couperin; Violin concerto; Oboe concerto (Sound recording); Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES