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July 1954

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Arthur Shilstone SEE ALSO: DeSapio, Carmine G.; Portraits; Tammany Hall PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from May 1954: Letter By Regena Seehausen Letter By Oriette M. Williams On Spanish journey, from March 1954: Letter By J.D. Ryan On Fantasy at noonday, from May 1954: Letter By Sandy Spit On The arithmetic of foreign affairs, from May 1954: Letter By E.A. Cyrol Letter By Benjamin H. Kizer Letter By A.A. Bless PDF IMAGES
8-15	The easy chair/Article Alias Nero Wolfe By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Historiography; Literary forgeries and mystifications PDF IMAGES
16-18	Personal and otherwise/Article Recovery from the plague By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
18-19	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
19	Personal and otherwise/Article Don't hurry back . . . By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Hospitality PDF IMAGES
23-33	Article Carmine G. DeSapio: The smile on the face of the tiger By Robert L. Heilbroner SEE ALSO: Career in New York politics; DeSapio, Carmine G.; Politics, Practical; Tammany Hall PDF IMAGES
34-37	Article Psychosomatic medicine: Part I By Ian Stevenson SEE ALSO: Medicine, Psychosomatic; Sick PDF IMAGES
38-46	Fiction The dinner party: A story By Gretchen Damrosch Finletter PDF IMAGES
47-53	Article The big change in suburbia: Crisis in the suburbs (part II) By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Business relocation; Open spaces; Regional planning; Suburban life PDF IMAGES
53	Article The importance of being decorous By Roger Fulford SEE ALSO: Anecdotes—Humor; Court and courtiers; Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount PDF IMAGES
54-55	Collection Poems from a Delta return By Charles G. Bell PDF IMAGES Poem The gar By Charles G. Bell PDF IMAGES Poem Lethe By Charles G. Bell PDF IMAGES
55	Poem Baptism By Charles G. Bell PDF IMAGES
56-63	Article Africa's modern slavery By Basil Davidson SEE ALSO: Africa; Angola; Davidson, Basil; Colonies; Forced labor; Nevinson, Henry Woodd; Journeys—Angola; Portugal; Portuguese PDF IMAGES
63	Article International poker: Kansas hand By Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman) Landon SEE ALSO: Cold War; Diplomacy; Kansas; 1949-1976; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
64-68	Article Proud Kate, the aristocratic mule By Thad Snow SEE ALSO: Delta (Miss. : Region); Human-animal relationships; Mules PDF IMAGES
69-74	Article The wonderful climate machine By Charles Lester Walker PDF IMAGES
74	Poem The courage that my mother had By Edna St. Vincent Millay PDF IMAGES
75	Article Let's look at the record: An open letter to his countrymen By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: Political ethics PDF IMAGES
76-82	Article What we don't know will hurt us: The power of liberal education By Alfred Whitney Griswold SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Education, Humanistic PDF IMAGES
83-88	Article The union that grew up: An informal portrait of the UAW By Mary Heaton Vorse SEE ALSO: Automobile industry; Career as labor leader; Committee for Industrial Organization; Labor movement; Strikes and lockouts; United Automobile Workers; Reuther, Walter Philip PDF IMAGES
89-90	After hours/Article Junior By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; McCarthy, Joseph; Legislative hearings; 1953-1961; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
90-92	After hours/Article Books and bucks By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Booksellers and bookselling PDF IMAGES
92	After hours/Article The angry sculptors By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; Form (Aesthetics); New Haven; Sculptors; Sculpture, American PDF IMAGES
93-96	The new books/Review Life and health, disease and death By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: Skira, Albert; An English year (Book); Fremantle, Anne Jackson; Assisi and Umbria revisited (Book); Gray, Basil; Biography; Brief candles (Book); Holme, Bryan; Jay, Charlotte; Chinese art (Book); Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame; Degas (Book); Hutton, Edward; Europe: a journey with pictures (Book); Wildenstein, Georges; Carson, Gerald; Fergusson, Harvey; Ingres (Book); More, Jasper; Weidman, Jerome; Steinbeck, John; Cole, Manning; Mary Anne (Book); Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson; Fairbrother, Nan; Piero della Francesca (Book); Carson, Robert; Ashton, Leigh, Sir; Snow crystals (Book); Sweet Thursday (Book); The black swan (Book); The conquest of Don Pedro (Book); The fugitive eye (Book); The land of Italy (Book); The old country store (Book); The quality of mercy (Book); The Spanish temper (Book); Mann, Thomas; Traveler's cheque (Book); Nakaya, Ukichiro; Pritchett, V.S. (Victor Sawdon); Trask, Willard R.(Willard Ropes) PDF IMAGES
99-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Bombard, Alain; Mergendahl, Charles; Isherwood, Christopher; Streeter, Edward; How to be a top secretary (Book); Delano, Margaret; Mr. Hobbs' vacation (Book); The bad seed (Book); The voyage of the Hérétique (Book); The world in the evening (Book); March, William; With kisses four (Book) PDF IMAGES
101	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Orme, Alexandra; Leslie, Anita; Banner against the wind (Book); Beyond the hundredth meridian (Book); Willoughby, Charles Andrew; Dark moon (Book); Cecil, David; Murrow, Edward R.; Lanham, Edwin; Queen, Ellery; Gilson, Etienne; Heney, Helen; Daniel-Rops, Henri; History of Christian philosophy in the Middle Ages (Book); Stone, Irving; Jesus and his times (Book); Chamberlain, John; Dos Passos, John; Jennings, John; Love is eternal (Book); MacArthur: 1941-1951 (Book); Madeleine—young wife (Book); Melbourne (Book); Most likely to succeed (Book); Hashimoto, Motchisura; Henrey, Robert, Mrs.; Paris original (Book); Sunk (Book); The fable (Book); The glass village (Book); The iron maiden (Book); The remarkable Mr. Jerome (Book); The white and the gold (Book); This I believe (Book); Costain, Thomas Bertram; Unto a good land (Book); Borg, Vilhelm; Stegner, Wallace Earle; Faulkner, William PDF IMAGES
102-104	The new recordings/Review Mitropoulos and Mendelssohn By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Taddei, Annarosa; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Grossmann, Ferdinand; Mendelssohn: St. Paul (Sound recording); Mendelssohn: Symphony #3 (“Scotch”); Symphony #5 (“Reformation”) (Sound recording); Mendelssohn: Two-piano concerto in A flat (manuscript) (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Frugoni, Orazio; Performances; Pro Musica Symphony (Vienna, Austria); Moralt, Rudolf; Vienna Symphony PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: A Wagner program (Sound recording); Dorati, Antal; Dvorák, Antonín; Fiedler, Arthur; Toscanini, Arturo; Berlioz: Symphony fantastique (Sound recording); Boston Pops Orchestra; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Dixon; Dvorák: New world symphony (Sound recording); Ormandy, Eugene; Falla: Three cornered hat; La vida breve (Sound recording); Fiedler's 25th (Sound recording); Liszt, Franz; Swarowsky, Hans; Berlioz, Hector; Scherchen, Hermann; Hymns and anthems (Sound recording); Stravinsky, Igor; Jones; Liszt: Four tone poems: Les Préludes; Orpheus; Battle of Huns; Mazeppa (Sound recording); Liszt: Piano concerto #1; Piano concerto #2 (Sound recording); London Philharmonic; London Symphony; Falla, Manuel de; Minneapolis Symphony; NBC Symphony; New York Philharmonic; Philadelphia Orchestra; Pittsburgh Symphony; Pro Musica Symphony (Vienna, Austria); Prokofieff: Chout. Falla: Three cornered hat (Sound recording); Wagner, Richard; Prokofieff, Sergey; St. Louis Symphony; Stravinsky: Sacre de printemps (Sound recording); Golschmann, Vladimir; Steinberg, William PDF IMAGES