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February 1955

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Artur Marokvia SEE ALSO: Capri Island; Capri Island (Italy); Italians PDF IMAGES
4-9	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from January 1955: Letter By Raymond D. Cheydleur On The big bang, from November 1954: Letter By Eleanor Gould On For deposit, to the account of, from December 1954: Letter By Stuart R. Sheedy Letter By Edwin S. Gozonsky Letter By “Mr. Harper” On Carols for commerce, from December 1954: Letter By George F. Jones PDF IMAGES
10-15	The easy chair/Article Service in four-color gravure By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Air travel; Hotels; Public Relations; Transportation; Travel etiquette PDF IMAGES
18	Personal and otherwise/Article Gone, wind and all By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Grooming for men PDF IMAGES Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
22	Personal and otherwise/Article Conspicuous consumers By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cadillac automobile; Rich people PDF IMAGES
25-30	Article Marx was a city boy: Or, why communism may fail By W.W. (Walt Whitman) Rostow SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Cold War; Communism and agriculture; Marx, Karl; 1949-; Views on agriculture PDF IMAGES
31-36	Article Florida: The state with the two-way stretch By William L. Rivers SEE ALSO: Growth; Industrialization; Political corruption; Tax incentives; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
37-41	Article They made the cigar respectable By Keith Monroe SEE ALSO: Advertising campaigns; Cigar industry; Motion pictures; Tobacco PDF IMAGES
41	Article The pen is mightier than the sword, but it backfires oftener SEE ALSO: Autobiography; Generals PDF IMAGES
42-50	Fiction The half-promised land: A story By Jerome Weidman PDF IMAGES
50	Poem Cathay By John Loehlin PDF IMAGES
51-57	Article Patching up the partnership with Britain By Alastair Buchan SEE ALSO: Anti-Americanism; Career as U.S. secretary of state; Dulles, John Foster; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
58-61	Article How to collect military information By William Stucky SEE ALSO: Collectors and collecting; Information services; Journalism, Military PDF IMAGES
62-67	Article The man who reads corpses By Robert Bendiner SEE ALSO: Gettler, Alexander Oscar; Career as medical examiner PDF IMAGES
68-73	Fiction A point of law: A story By Morris Leopold Ernst PDF IMAGES
73	Poem Kind offices By George Johnston PDF IMAGES
74-78	Article The Wali, and other Swatis By John Sack SEE ALSO: Justice, Administration of; Pakistan PDF IMAGES
78	Article A faith for our times By Sidney Skolsky SEE ALSO: Astrology; Sitwell, Edith, Dame; Humor; Monroe, Marilyn PDF IMAGES
79	Article The merciful tenderizer By Ralph McGill SEE ALSO: Chickens; Colombia; Cookery (Poultry); Processing PDF IMAGES
80-82	After hours/Article Pleasure palaces By Dick Pearce SEE ALSO: Entertainers; Gambling; Las Vegas; Las Vegas (Nev.); Nevada; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
82	After hours/Article Hard times for soft covers By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Paperback wholesalers PDF IMAGES After hours/Article Nice book By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Barr, Alfred; Anniversaries, etc.; Art, Modern; Artists' illustrated books; Conservation and restoration; Mills, Edward L.; Exhibitions; Masters of modern art (Book); Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
84-90	Article What happened to Michael Arlen? By Alec Waugh SEE ALSO: Biography; Arlen, Michael PDF IMAGES
91-100	The new books/Review Travel by novel, America's heritage, the short story By John Brooks SEE ALSO: A ghost at noon (Book); Acquainted with the night (Book); Moravia, Alberto; All men are mortal (Book); Ward, Barbara; Brogan, D.W. (Denis William); Mittelhölzer, Edgar; Faith and freedom (Book); Martin, Hansford; Swados, Harvey; Böll, Heinrich; Hubertus (Book); Out went the candle (Book); Engle, Paul; Politics in America (Book); Prize stories 1955: the O. Henry awards (Book); Pratt, Richard; Beauvoir, Simone de; The second treasury of early American homes (Book) PDF IMAGES
100-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A world of love (Book); All my darlings (Book); Mankiewicz, Don M.; Bowen, Elizabeth; Tiira, Ensio; Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A. (Book); Pearson, Hesketh; Alsop, Joseph; Prisoner's bluff (Book); Raft of despair (Book); Aldrich, Richard Stoddard; Magener, Rolf; Grau, Shirley Ann; Sir Walter Scott: his life and personality (Book); Stewart Alsop; The black prince (Book); Byrnes, Thomas; Trial (Book); We accuse: the story of the miscarriage of American justice in the case of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Book) PDF IMAGES
101	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Woodhouse, Barbara; Birds of the world (Book); Fish, Byron; Elephant tramp (Book); Lewis, George; Weiner, J.S. (Joseph Sidney); My way of becoming a hunter (Book); Barruel, Paul; Rockwell, Robert H.; Salamanders and other wonders (Book); Talking to animals (Book); The Piltdown forgery, an account of its exposure? (Book); The public philosophers (Book); Lippmann, Walter; Ley, Willy PDF IMAGES
102-103	The new recordings/Review Sound spaces: II. “Absolute” recording By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Wallenstein, Alfred; Architectural acoustics; Bach: Goldberg variations (Sound recording); Bach: Magnificat (with 4 Christmas interpolations) (Sound recording); Bach: The six Brandenburg concertos (Sound recording); Bach: Violin concerto in E; Violin concerto in A minor (Sound recording); Equipment and supplies; Prohaska, Felix; Leonhardt, Gustav; Heifetz, Jascha; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Music of the Baroque era for harpsichord and clavichord (Sound recording); Performances; Pro Musica Symphony; Sound; Vienna State Opera Orchestra PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Hommage à Diaghilev (Sound recording); Markevitch, Igor; Stravinsky, Igor; Sebastian, John; Orchestre des Concerts Colonne; Philharmonia Orchestra of London; Prokofiev: Symphony #4; Suite from “The Prodigal Son” (Sound recording); Diaghilev, Serge; Prokofieff, Sergey; Stravinsky: Rite of spring (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES