Harper's Magazine: November 1955

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November 1955

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Joseph Low SEE ALSO: Seafaring life; Ship captains PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from September 1955: Letter By Gertrude S. Carraway Letter By Maribel Meisel On The creative instinct, from September 1955: Letter By Walter Freeman Letter By Jr. and Ralph P. Boas On The Nixon issue, from September 1955: Letter By John P. Frank PDF IMAGES
10-17	The easy chair/Article Number 241 By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Career as author of “The easy chair” (Harper's); Portraits; “The easy chair” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES
18-25	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. secretary of state; Acheson, Dean; Officials and employees; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
25	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
29-34	Article The parties and foreign policy By Dean Acheson SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1945-1953; 1953-1961; The Republican Party; World politics PDF IMAGES
35-39	Article Ship's company By Jan De Hartog SEE ALSO: Cabin boys; Cooks; Marine engineers; Sailors; Seafaring life; Ship captains; Ships PDF IMAGES
40-44	Article The ivy-covered wild blue yonder By Charles A. Fenton SEE ALSO: Colorado; Colorado Springs; Curricula; Education, Humanistic; Football PDF IMAGES
44	Poem November in Windham By Katherine Anne Porter PDF IMAGES
45-51	Article Bishop Sheil: Prophet without honor By Mary Elizabeth Carroll SEE ALSO: Sheil, Bernard J.(Bernard James); Bishops; Career as Catholic bishop in Chicago; Catholic Church; Resignation PDF IMAGES
52-53	Archive/Article Let's not get out the vote By Robert Coulson SEE ALSO: Abstention; Public relations and politics; Voting; Voting research PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
54-61	Article Me and my house . . . By James Baldwin SEE ALSO: African American authors; African American fathers; Biography; Harlem (New York, New York); Baldwin, James; Race discrimination PDF IMAGES
62-65	Fiction Madame Vishnak: A story By Morris Freedman PDF IMAGES
66-70	Article Was Darwin wrong about the human brain? By Loren C. Eiseley SEE ALSO: Wallace, Alfred Russel; Darwin, Charles; Craniology; Evolution (Biology); Fossil hominids; Human beings; Natural selection; Origin; Piltdown forgery; Views on evolution PDF IMAGES
70	Article Come sign the pledge! Or, a world well lost By John F. Hume SEE ALSO: Literature and morals PDF IMAGES
71	Poem The train butcher By Thomas Hornsby Ferril PDF IMAGES
72-79	Fiction Loser takes all (part II) By Graham Greene PDF IMAGES
79	Article Git along, little fractions By Martha Wolfenstein SEE ALSO: Mathematics; Study and teaching (Elementary); Textbooks; Word problems (Mathematics) PDF IMAGES
80-81	After hours/Article Songbird By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as folk singer; Gooding, Cynthia; Folk singers; Women singers PDF IMAGES
81	After hours/Article Lowly origins By John Fischer SEE ALSO: The Boy Scouts; Class consciousness; Middle class; Synthetic products PDF IMAGES After hours/Article People for poets By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Art patronage; Arts and society; Oral interpretation of poetry; Kolodney, William PDF IMAGES
84-98	The new books/Review The question of style By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Camus, Albert; Memmi, Albert; Dark eye in Africa (Book); Wilson, Edmund; Truman, Harry S.; How far the promised land? (Book); Inside Africa (Book); Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Gunther, John; Van der Post, Laurens; Burrows, Millar; Mailer, Norman; Hirsh, Selma G.; The Dead Sea scrolls (Book); The deer park (Book); The fears men live by (Book); The myth of Sisyphus (Book); The open mind (Book); The pillar of salt (Book); The scrolls from the Dead Sea (Book); The year of decisions (Book); White, Walter Francis PDF IMAGES
98-100	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: De Sola, Alis; De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Peck, David W.; Durrell, Gerald Malcolm; Cameron, James; Sinclair, Jo; Mandarin Red (Book); Sapirstein, Milton R.; Dickens, Monica; Paradoxes of everyday life, a psychoanalyst's interpretations (Book); Matthiessen, Peter; Coates, Robert M. (Robert Myron); The changelings (Book); The easy chair (Book); The farther shore (Book); The Greer case (Book); The partisans (Book); The winds of heaven (Book); Three tickets to adventure (Book) PDF IMAGES
100	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Guthrie, A.B. (Alfred Bertram); Waugh, Alec; Boon Island (Book); Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of; Lewis, Grace Hegger; Island in the sun (Book); Benny, Jack; Roberts, Kenneth Lewis; Letter to Mr. Nehru (Book); Smith, Lillian Eugenia; The heart has its reasons (Book); The sweeter the meat (Book); The way of some flesh (Book); With love from Gracie (Book) PDF IMAGES
101-104	The new recordings/Review Home stereo sound By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bach: Four suites for orchestra (Sound recording); Beethoven: Piano sonata, op. 57 (“Appassionata”); Piano sonata, op. 53 (“Waldstein”) (Sound recording); Beethoven: Septet in E flat, op. 20 (Sound recording); Franck, César; Debussy, Claude; Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien (complete) (Sound recording); Ansermet, Ernest; Franck: Psyché (symphonic poem with chorus) (Sound recording); Bach, Johann Sebastian; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Netherlands Chamber Choir; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Klemperer, Otto; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra of London; Gorodnitzki, Sascha; Stereophonic sound systems; Vienna Octet PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Goehr, Alexander; Flamenco! (Sound recording); Knappertsbusch, Hans; Stravinsky, Igor; Netherlands Philharmonic; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Wagner, Richard; Stravinsky: Fire bird suite; Concerto for piano and wind instruments (Sound recording); Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet; The voyevoda; Elegy for strings (Sound recording); Vienna Philharmonia; Wagner: Die Meistersinger, “Fliedermonolog,” act 2; “Wahnmonolog,” act 3 (Sound recording); Wagner: Die Meistersinger, “Gut'n abend,” act 2; “Grüss Gott,” act 3 (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES