Harper's Magazine: July 1955

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July 1955

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Artur Marokvia SEE ALSO: Luce, Clare Boothe; Portraits; Women ambassadors PDF IMAGES
6-8	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from May 1955: Letter By Sam L. Blumenson On Old papers, from May 1955: Letter By Marion E. Barr PDF IMAGES
10-15	The easy chair/Article Peter and Wendy in the revolution By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Kempton, Murray; 1953-1961; Part of our time (Book) PDF IMAGES
16-20	Personal and otherwise/Article The embarrassing truth about Davy Crockett, the Alamo, Yoknapatawpha County, and other dear myths By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Folklore PDF IMAGES
20	Personal and otherwise/Article Double jackpot By John Fischer SEE ALSO: American periodicals; Authors' Guild; Awards; Civil Rights; Alsop, Joseph; Stewart Alsop PDF IMAGES [Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
23-30	Article Ambassador Luce, as Italians see her By Luigi Giorgio Barzini SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. ambassador to Italy; Luce, Clare Boothe; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Family; Luce, Henry; 1945-1976; Women ambassadors PDF IMAGES
30	Article The do-nothing Congress By King of Belgium Leopold SEE ALSO: Belgium PDF IMAGES
31-32	Article How to talk to the boss By Alex Bavelas SEE ALSO: Business communication; Executives; Training of PDF IMAGES
33-38	Article On privacy: The American dream By William Faulkner SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Freedom of the press; Individualism; Privacy, Right of PDF IMAGES
38	Poem Lyric By Peter Robert Edwin Viereck PDF IMAGES
39-44	Article Home-grown TV in St. Louis By Martin Quigley SEE ALSO: Educational television stations; Public television; St. Louis; Television in education; Television programs, Public service PDF IMAGES
45-53	Fiction The condemned librarian By Jessamyn West PDF IMAGES
54-59	Article My affair with Japanese movies By Harold Strauss SEE ALSO: Kurosawa, Akira; Art and motion pictures; Interviews; Mizoguchi, Kenji; Motion picture industry; Motion picture producers and directors PDF IMAGES
60-65	Article Guatemala: What the Reds left behind By Keith Monroe SEE ALSO: Arbenz; Career as Guatemalan president; Castillo Armas, Carlos; Cold War; Communism; Guatemala; 1945-1985; Revolution, 1954 PDF IMAGES
66-67	Article All on a summer day By Eaton G. Davis SEE ALSO: Discipline of children; Sailing; Summer PDF IMAGES
68-73	Article Saphira and the preacher By Margaret Blocher SEE ALSO: Intergenerational relations; Midwives PDF IMAGES
74-76	Article Spare parts for people By Alden Stevens SEE ALSO: Donation of organs, tissues, etc.; Tissue culture PDF IMAGES
77-80	Article How to get published, more or less By David K. Dempsey SEE ALSO: Authors and publishers; Career in publishing; Uhlan, Edward; Marketing; Vanity presses PDF IMAGES
81-82	After hours/Article Open the Dior, Richard By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in fashion design—Humor; Dior, Christian; Fashion designers; Fashion shows PDF IMAGES
82-84	After hours/Article Majority of one By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in furniture design; Nakashima, George; Home-based businesses; Japanese Americans PDF IMAGES
84	After hours/Article Popismo By Reuel Denney SEE ALSO: Automobile travel; Maintenance and repair PDF IMAGES
85-90	The new books/Review Eadie was a lady . . . Regency courtesan . . . fiction: Russian, Welch, American-European By Marvin Barrett SEE ALSO: Adventures in the skin trade and other stories (Book); Autobiography; Biography; Thomas, Dylan; Merman, Ethel; Excelsior! (Book); Wilson, Harriette; Babel', I. (Isaak); Boyle, Kay; Laurette (Book); Taylor, Laurette; Blanch, Lesley; Courtney, Marguerite; Pickford, Mary; Bonner, Paul Hyde; Martin, Pete; Sunshine and shadow (Book); The collected stories of Isaac Babel (Book); The game of hearts: the memoirs of Harriette Wilson (Book); The seagull on the step (Book); Who could ask for anything more? (Book) PDF IMAGES
91-92	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Jessel, George; Kramer, Gerhard; How not to write a play (Book); Campbell, Joseph; Halevy, Julian; Ka-tzetnik 135633; Talbot, Kathrine; Lader, Lawrence; The art of Indian Asia (Book); The house of dolls (Book); The innermost cage (Book); The Margaret Sanger story and the fight for birth control (Book); The young lovers (Book); This way, Miss (Book); Kerr, Walter; We shall march again (Book) PDF IMAGES
92	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Park, Aileen; Band of angels (Book); Russell, Bertrand; Paul, Charlotte; Crockett, Davy; Davy Crockett (Book); Davy Crockett, young rifleman (Book); Davy Crockett's own story (Book); Meadowcroft, Enid La Monte; Richardson, Ernest; Grandfather stories (Book); Hiroshima diary (Book); O'Hara, John; Thomason, John W., Jr.; Adenauer, Konrad; Shapiro, L.S.B.(Lionel S.B.); Hachiya, Michihiko; Minding our own business (Book); Nightmares of eminent persons (Book); Warren, Robert Penn; Adams, Samuel Hopkins; Holbrook, Stewart; Ten North Frederick (Book); The adventures of Davy Crockett (told mostly by himself) (Book); The lessons of history (Book); The sixth of June (Book); The story of Davy Crockett (Book); Smyth, William; World indivisible: with liberty and justice for all (Book) PDF IMAGES
94-95	The new recordings/Review Epoch at Bennington By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Concerto for orchestra (1944) (Sound recording); Britten, Benjamin; Bennington; Berlin Philharmonic; Britten: a simple symphony (Sound recording); Britten: Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra (Sound recording); Britten: Sinfonia da requiem (Sound recording); Saint-Saëns, Camille; Concerts; Varèse, Edgard; Ormandy, Eugene; Hindemith: Symphony “Die Harmonie der Welt” (1951) (Sound recording); Markevitch, Igor; London Symphony; New Symphony; Hindemith, Paul; Performances; Pears, Peter; Philadelphia Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra of London; Saint-Saëns: Le Carnival des animaux. Britten: Young person's guide to the orchestra (Sound recording); Goossens, Eugene, Sir PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Brahms: A German requiem (Sound recording); Kolodin, Irving; Brahms, Johannes; 50 years of great operatic singing (Sound recording); Solti, Georg, Sir; This is high fidelity (Sound recording); Turner, Tyler PDF IMAGES