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July 1953

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Artur Marokvia SEE ALSO: Sopranos (Singers) PDF IMAGES
4-15	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Career as U.S. representative; Kearns, Carroll D. PDF IMAGES
16-17	Letters/Department Letters On The sturdy corporate homesteader, from May 1953: Letter By Robert Braucher Letter By Louis Leo Kramer Letter By Mrs. Shirley Aillaud On Did you see IT?, from May 1953: Letter By J.P. Hannum On Armory Show 1953, from May 1953: Letter By Emery L. Barnard PDF IMAGES
21-27	Article Colossus on the Potomac: Causes and cures of big government By Paul Howard Douglas SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Civil service; Cold War; Government spending policy; National security PDF IMAGES
28-31	Article Grandeurs and miseries of old age By Elmer Holmes Davis SEE ALSO: Aged; Aging PDF IMAGES
31	Article The ultimate weapon SEE ALSO: Weapons of mass destruction PDF IMAGES
32-37	Article The nail in the coffin: The curious fate of Hugh Walpole By Alec Waugh SEE ALSO: Biography; Cakes and ale (Book); Literary quarrels; Novelists, English; Walpole, Hugh, Sir; Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) PDF IMAGES
37	Article All right, send them “Oliver Twist” SEE ALSO: Antisemitism; Censorship; Ivanhoe (Motion picture); Lebanon; Motion pictures PDF IMAGES
38-48	Fiction The soprano and the piccolo player By Mary Middleton Murry PDF IMAGES
49-52	The easy chair/Article Heading for the last roundup By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Administration; National parks and reserves; Pasture, Right of; Public lands; Radio programs, Public service; United States. Forest Service PDF IMAGES
53-61	Article How red was the red decade? By Granville Hicks SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Communism; Communism and intellectuals; Communism and literature; Communism and mass media PDF IMAGES
62-67	Article Close-up of a “workers' paradise”: What's happening to labor in red Hungary By George May SEE ALSO: Communism; Hungary; Industrial relations; 1945-1989 PDF IMAGES
67	Poem Blind date By Edwin Muir PDF IMAGES
68-74	Fiction The flower: A story By Miriam Rugel PDF IMAGES
75-81	Article The Wellesley experiment: A pioneer undertaking in psychiatry for the community By Morton M. Hunt SEE ALSO: Wellesley PDF IMAGES
81	Poem Noon hour in Bryant Park By Sylvia Wright PDF IMAGES
82-87	Article Why be secretary of agriculture? By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Agricultural subsidies; Free enterprise; 1945-1960; Officials and employees; Surplus agricultural commodities; United States. Dept. of Agriculture PDF IMAGES
87	Poem By Swancoote Pool By David Thompson Watson McCord PDF IMAGES
88-91	Article What makes architecture modern? By Harrison Gill SEE ALSO: Architecture, Modern PDF IMAGES
92	After hours/Article Wall hung By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Yoors, Jan; Knowledge—Tapestry; Tapestry; Wall hangings PDF IMAGES After hours/Article Where are the other fifteen? By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Baseball; Europeans; Rules; Television and baseball PDF IMAGES
94-95	After hours/Article Gently, sirs By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Architecture, Modern; Influence; Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig PDF IMAGES
96-100	New books/Review Lower than the angels By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: A dog's head (Book); Nevins, Allan; Kennelly, Ardyth; Lindop, Audrey Erskine; Milosz, Czeslaw; Decline of the Roman empire (Book); Kaiser, E.; Wilkins, Eithne; Walbank, F.W. (Frank William); Gilbert, Felix; Wagner, Geoffrey Atheling; Good morning, young lady (Book); Craig, Gordon Alexander; Heresy, yes—conspiracy, no (Book); Dutourd, Jean; King George V (Book); Waltari, Mika; Walford, Naomi; Barisse, Rita; Musil, Robert; Chancellor, Robin; Hook, Sidney; Nicolson, Harold George, Sir; Study in power: John D. Rockefeller (Book); The captive mind (Book); The dark angel (Book); The diplomats 1919-1939 (Book); The man without qualities (Book); The passionate land (Book); The singer not the song (Book); Childe, V. Gordon (Vere Gordon); Vercors; Cowles, Virginia; What is history? (Book); Winston Churchill (Book); You shall know them (Book) PDF IMAGES
100-102	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Best articles 1953 (Book); Richter, Conrad; Douglas Fairbanks, the fourth musketeer (Book); s. Women today: their conflicts, their frustrations, their fulfillments (Book), Elizabeth; Clayton, John Bell; Tey, Josephine; Fairbanks, Letitia; Lost trails, lost cities: an explorer's narrative (Book); Fawcett, Percy Harrison; Hancock, Ralph; Flesch, Rudolf Franz; Marshall, S.L.A. (Samuel Lyman Atwood); The light in the forest (Book); The river and the gauntlet (Book); The singing sands (Book); Wait, son, October is near (Book) PDF IMAGES
102	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A handful of blackberries (Book); A law for the lion (Book); Paton, Alan; Lynd, Albert B.; Hayes, Alfred; Malraux, André; Petry, Ann Lane; Bee time vine and other pieces (Book); Forester, C.S.; Drinking in college (Book); Roosevelt, Eleanor; Father, dear father (Book); Festival (Book); Stein, Gertrude; Hornblower and the Atropos (Book); Silone, Ignazio; In love (Book); Hilton, James; Hersey, John; Jackson, Joseph Henry; Wertenbaker, Lael Tucker; Hickok, Lorena A.; Auchincloss, Louis; Bemelmans, Ludwig; De la Roche, Mazo; My San Franscisco (Book); Marsh, Ngaio; Quackery in the public schools (Book); Straus, Robert; Bacon, Selden D. (Selden Daskam); Spinsters in jeopardy (Book); Gilbert, Stuart; The marmot drive (Book); The narrows (Book); The voices of silence (Book); The Whiteoak brothers: Jalna 1923 (Book); Time and time again (Book); Too late the Phalarope (Book); Women in politics (Book) PDF IMAGES
103-104	The new recordings/Review Super sound By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartok: “For children”: 40 pieces on Hungarian folk tunes (1907-8) (Sound recording); Bloch; Shostakovich, Dmitriæi Dmitrievich; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Mahler, Gustav; Rosbaud, Hans; Scherchen, Hermann; High-fidelity sound systems; London Symphony; Mahler: Symphony #7 (“Song of the Night”) (Sound recording); Mendelssohn: “Scotch” symphony (Sound recording); Milhaud; Pittsburgh Symphony; Prokofiev; IProkofiev. Shostakovich. Bloch. Milhaud. Starer (Sound recording); Radio Berlin Symphony; Recording and reproducing; Solti, Georg, Sir; Sound; Starer; Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Steinberg, William PDF IMAGES