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September 1954

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Leo Hershfield SEE ALSO: World Series (Baseball) PDF IMAGES
3-6	Advertising Supplement Natural gas: From nature's stepchild to national treasure By Gardiner Symonds SEE ALSO: Gas industry PDF IMAGES
7-8	Letters/Department Letters PDF IMAGES
10-19	The easy chair/Article And fractions drive me mad By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Colorado; Colorado River; Echo Park Dam (Colo.); Error analysis (Mathematics); Flood dams and reservoirs; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
20-22	Personal and otherwise/Article The forecast that worked too well By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cold War; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
22-24	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
24	Personal and otherwise/Article Diplomatic crisis By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Bribery; Diplomatic and consular service, American; The Middle East PDF IMAGES
27-32	Article Why the businessmen are leaving Washington By Arthur Moore SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Career as U.S. president; Career as U.S. senator; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); McCarthy, Joseph; 1953-1961; Staff PDF IMAGES
32	Article Reach for that perfumed water SEE ALSO: Asia; Cancer; Mouth; Physiological effect; Smoking paraphernalia; Tobacco PDF IMAGES
33-37	Article Covering the World Series By Charles Einstein SEE ALSO: Ghostwriting; Sports journalism; World Series (Baseball) PDF IMAGES
38-45	Article Churchill in his element By Woodrow Wyatt SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons; 1936-1945; 1945-1964; Prime ministers; Churchill, Winston, Sir PDF IMAGES
45	Poem Troubled, frustrated— By Leonard Bacon PDF IMAGES
46	Poem Pater familias By Phyllis McGinley PDF IMAGES
47-49	Article When Negroes entered a Texas school By Arthur D. Morse SEE ALSO: College integration; Corpus Christi PDF IMAGES
49	Article Who, us? . . . SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, English PDF IMAGES
50-56	Article The king and his beasts: Part II By Gerald Malcolm Durrell SEE ALSO: Bafut (African people); Cameroon; Durrell, Gerald Malcolm; Hunters; Journeys—Cameroon; Wild animal collecting PDF IMAGES
57-63	Article Shock: The herald of death By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Treatment PDF IMAGES
63	Poem To Eva descending the stair By Sylvia Plath PDF IMAGES
64-72	Fiction A soft answer: A story By John Downing Weaver PDF IMAGES
73-78	Article Doodling . . . in three dimensions By Dan Wickenden SEE ALSO: Calder, Alexander; Appreciation; Art, Amateur; Mobiles (Sculpture) PDF IMAGES
79-86	Article Our castles in Spain By F. George Steiner SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Foreign public opinion, Spanish; 1939-1975; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
87-93	Article Psychoanalysts and writers By Malcolm Cowley SEE ALSO: Authors; Psychoanalysis and literature PDF IMAGES
93	Article The lady and the pirate By Harriet Martineau SEE ALSO: Authors and publishers; Harper & Brothers; Martineau, Harriet; Journeys—United States PDF IMAGES
94-96	After hours/Article Little boy Brummel By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Men's clothing PDF IMAGES
96-97	After hours/Article American Landscape V By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Air travel; Colorado; Mountain flying; Rocky Mountains PDF IMAGES
97	After hours/Article Patter familias By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Enright, Elizabeth; Family—Humor PDF IMAGES
98-105	The new books/Review Sound and fury By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: A fable (Book); Criticism and interpretation; Howe, Irving; The tangled fire of William Faulkner (Book); The world of William Faulkner (Book); Miner, Ward L.; Faulkner, William; William Faulkner (Book); O'Connor, William Van PDF IMAGES
105-107	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A murder in paradise (Book); Lanham, Edwin; Hagedorn, Hermann; Jennison, Keith; Brandel, Marc; Gehman, Richard; The dream and the desert (Book); The green place (Book); The iron maiden (Book); The Roosevelt family of Sagamore Hill (Book); The time of the fire (Book); Krige, Uys PDF IMAGES
107	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Annie Oakley of the Wild West (Book); Davis, Burke; Maxwell, Elsa; Carter, Everett; From gun to gavel: the courtroom recollections of James Mathers of Oklahoma (Book); Commager, Henry Steele; Howells and the age of realism (Book); Edman, Irwin; John Dewey (Book); John Marshall (Book); Armstrong, Louis; Many a good crusade (Book); Houts, Marshall; Chase, Mary Ellen; My several worlds: a personal record (Book); Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker); R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story (Book); Satchmo (Book); The white gate (Book); They called him Stonewall: a life of Lt. General T.J. Jackson (Book); Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron; Havighurst, Walter PDF IMAGES
108-111	The new recordings/Review Hi-fi: Phonograph vs. “system” equipment By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Ackermann; Arias sung and acted (Sound recording); Schnabel, Artur; Artur Schnabel: Piano concerto (1901) (Sound recording); Bach: St. Matthew passion (Sound recording); Barchet Quartet; C.P.E. Bach: Concerto for orchestra in D (arr. Steinberg). Haydn: Symphony #85 (Sound recording); Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel; Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach: Piano concerto in D; Trio for flute, violin and piano (Sound recording); Cellini; Adler, F. Charles (Frederick Charles); Poulenc, Francis; Kreisler, Fritz; High-fidelity systems; Solomon, Izler; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Haydn, Joseph; Kreisler: Quartet in E minor. Paganini: Quartet in E (Sound recording); M-G-M Chamber Orchestra; Mozart: Early symphonies (Sound recording); Mozart: Quartets, K. 80, 155, 156, 157 (Sound recording); Netherlands Philharmonic; Paganini, Nicolò; Hindemith, Paul; Phonograph; Poulenc: Sextette. Hindemith: Quintet (Kleine kammermusik, op. 24, 2) (Sound recording); RCA Victor Orchestra; MacMillan, Ernest, Sir; Vienna Philharmonia; Thomson, Virgil; Virgil Thomson: Four saints in three acts (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Rubinstein, Artur; Brahms: Clarinet sonatas, op. 120, #1 and #2 (Sound recording); Debussy, Claude; Debussy: Three sonatas (Sound recording); Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Schubert, Franz; Brahms, Johannes; Weill, Kurt; Performances; Rubinstein plays Brahms (Sound recording); Schubert lieder recital (Sound recording); Weill: Threepenny opera (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES