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April 1955

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Leo Manso SEE ALSO: Huxley, Aldous; Young women in literature PDF IMAGES
6-13	Letters/Department Letters On Service in four-color gravure, from February 1955: Letter By John Kaluf Letter By Robert A. Ebersole Letter By Bernice Engle PDF IMAGES
14-21	The easy chair/Article Guilt by distinction By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Learning and scholarship; Legislative hearings; Paranoia PDF IMAGES
22-23	Advertising Supplement Competition vs. controls: A basic American issue as seen by the Natural Gas and Oil Resources Committee SEE ALSO: Competition; Energy industries; Government policy; Price regulation; Prices PDF IMAGES
24-26	Personal and otherwise/Article Khrushchev as a host By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Fischer, John; Journeys—Soviet Union; 1945-1991; Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich; Prime ministers; Psychology PDF IMAGES
26-27	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
27	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
31-37	Article The triumph of the moderates By William G. (William Graves) Carleton SEE ALSO: Elections, 1954; 1953-1961; Political parties; Political psychology; Radicalism; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
37	Article That's us all over PDF IMAGES
38-40	Article Fulfillment in Canarsie By Cordelia Baird Gross SEE ALSO: Awards; Baking; Bars (Drinking establishments); Stripteasers PDF IMAGES
41-47	Article America's next twenty years: II. The promise of automation By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Automation; Effect of automation on; Industrial management; Labor supply PDF IMAGES
48-54	Article Why we are losing Latin America By Louis Joseph Halle SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Economic assistance, American; Truman, Harry S.; Latin America; Military policy; 1945-1989; 1948-1980; Pan-Americanism PDF IMAGES
55-62	Article Killing off the theater By Walter Kerr SEE ALSO: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich; Drama; Ibsen, Henrik; Influence; Playwriting; Technique; Theater audiences PDF IMAGES
62	Poem Portrait of a Philadelphian By H-J PDF IMAGES
63-67	Article How much poison are we eating? By Ralph G. Martin SEE ALSO: Government policy; Insecticides; Organic farming; Pesticides; Physiological effect PDF IMAGES
67	Poem On my thirty-fifth birthday By Norman Nicholson PDF IMAGES
68-72	Article That phony refugee law: Compassion by slide rule By Cabell B.H. Phillips SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Europeans; 1953-1961; Refugees, Political PDF IMAGES
72	Article Precedent By William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne SEE ALSO: 1837-1901 PDF IMAGES
73-86	Fiction The genius and the goddess (part I) By Aldous Huxley PDF IMAGES
87-88	After hours/Article Utopias you wouldn't like By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Science fiction, American; Social problems in literature PDF IMAGES
88-89	After hours/Article Bon voyage By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Decoration; Ocean liners; Transatlantic voyages PDF IMAGES
90-98	The new books/Review Europe and Asia in fact and fiction . . . happy marriages in American history . . . Yeats' letters By Maurice Dolbier SEE ALSO: A train of powder (Book); Guérard, Albert Léon; Wade, Allan; Forester, C.S.; Coromandel! (Book); West, Rebecca, Dame; Reischauer, Edwin O. (Edwin Oldfather); Garbo (Book); Swiggett, Howard; Scott, J.M.; Bainbridge, John; Masters, John; Napoleon III (Book); Spears, Edward, Sir; Jameson, Storm; The fall of France: June 1940 (Book); The forgotten leaders of the Revolution (Book); The good shepherd (Book); The hidden stream (Book); The letters of W.B. Yeats (Book); The other half of the orange (Book); Yeats, W.B. (William Butler); Wanted: an Asian policy (Book) PDF IMAGES
98-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Lindbergh, Anne Morrow; Enright, Elizabeth; Fellow passenger (Book); Household, Geoffrey; Gift from the sea (Book); MacInnes, Helen; Bemelmans, Ludwig; Pray for a brave heart (Book); The moment before the rain (Book); To the one I love the best (Book) PDF IMAGES
101	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Vanderkogel, Albert; Daniel, Anita; Cape Cod's way (Book); Parcher, Emily Seaber; Gardner, Erle Stanley; European touring guide (Book); Lieb, Fred; Hallwag; How to watch birds (Book); I am going to Italy (Book); Italy (Book); Friedlander, J.C.; Sweeney, John; Brooks, Joseph; Koller, Larry; Mallan, Lloyd; Fielding, Michael; Richter, Muriel; My love affair with the state of Maine (Book); Mailer, Norman; Pick up and go alone (Book); Pocket guide to Europe (Book); Lardner, Rex; Ruark, Robert Chester; Barton, Roger; Goode, Ruth; Corbett, Scott; Mackenzie, Scotty; Shady gardens: how to plan and grow them (Book); Something of value (Book); The Baltimore Orioles (Book); The case of the sun bather's diary (Book); The deer park (Book); The how-to book of skin diving and exploring underwater (Book); Travel writing; Underwater sport (Book) PDF IMAGES
102-103	The new recordings/Review Short-hair By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Tcherepnin, Alexander; Ballet méchanique (1924). Brant: Signs and alarms; Galaxy 2 (Sound recording); Chicago Symphony; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Eastman-Rochester Symphony; Reiner, Fritz; Antheil, George; Hanson; Brant, Henry; Cowell, Henry; Henry Cowell: Symphony #11. Tcherepnin: Suite, op. 87 (Sound recording); Hindemith: String trio #1; String trio #2 (Sound recording); Perlea, Jonel; Liebermann: Concerto for jazz band and symphony orchestra. Strauss: Don Juan (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Lockwood, Normand; Hindemith, Paul; Mennin, Peter; Piston: Symphony #3 (1947) (Sound recording); Popular music; Strauss, Richard; Riegger: Symphony #3. Mennin: Symphony #3 (Sound recording); Liebermann, Rolf; Johnson, Thor; Kay, Ulysses; Ulysses Kay: Concerto for orchestra. Normand Lockwood: Concerto for organ and brasses; Quiet design (Sound recording); Riegger, Wallingford; Piston, Walter; Whitney PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Vivaldi, Antonio; Dahinden, Clemens; Danzi: Sonatas for horn and piano (Sound recording); Dittersdorf: Rescue of Andromeda by Perseus; Symphony in E flat (Sound recording); Danzi, Franz; Telemann, Georg Philipp; L÷illet, John; Jouve; Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von; Radio Zurich Orchestra; Te deum (Sound recording); Telemann: Fantasias for harpsichord (Sound recording); Vivaldi: Bassoon concerto in A minor; Flute concerto in F; Concerto grosso in G (“Dresden”); Oboe concerto in D minor (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES