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March 1956

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Robert Chesley Osborn SEE ALSO: Children and adults PDF IMAGES
6-14	Letters/Department Letters PDF IMAGES
16-22	The editor's easy chair/Article Why is the conservative voice so hoarse? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Conservatism in the press; Radicalism PDF IMAGES
22-24	The editor's easy chair/Article Fit of temper? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. secretary of state; Cold War; Dulles, John Foster; 1947-1984; 1953-1961; Portugal PDF IMAGES
25-28	Advertising Supplement The right to compete: Cornerstone of modern transportation regulation By William T. Faricy SEE ALSO: Competition; Railroads and state; Rates; Transportation; Trucking PDF IMAGES
29-33	Personal and otherwise/Article Beloved friend By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Government relations PDF IMAGES
33	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
37-43	Article Gesell's children grow up By Helen W. (Helen Walker) Puner SEE ALSO: Adolescent psychology; Gesell, Arnold; Career in child development research; Child development PDF IMAGES
44-47	Article Picasso in Vallauris By Hans Bendix SEE ALSO: Bendix, Hans; Homes and haunts; Interviews; Journeys—France—Vallauris; Picasso, Pablo PDF IMAGES
46	Poem Twentieth century pastoral: The simple life By Fred Lape PDF IMAGES
48-53	Article The raid on the reservations By Dorothy Van de Mark SEE ALSO: Career as assistant secretary of Interior Department; Death and burial; Federal-Indian trust relationship; Government relations; Indian termination policy; Hayes, Ira; Relocation; D'Ewart, Wesley Abner PDF IMAGES
54-60	Article Subways are for sleeping By Edmund G. Love SEE ALSO: Homeless persons; Poor PDF TEXT IMAGES
61-65	Article Curtain time in Moscow By Kenneth Tynan SEE ALSO: Moscow; Moscow (Russia); Theater and state; Theater audiences PDF IMAGES
66-69	Article Boredom catches up with the comrades By Albert Parry SEE ALSO: Lecturers; Propaganda, Communist PDF IMAGES
69	Article Scripture according to G.E. SEE ALSO: Bible. O.T. Isaiah; General Electric; Industrial buildings PDF IMAGES
70-75	Fiction All the guts in the world: A story By Richard Frede PDF IMAGES
76-79	Article St. Louis wakes itself up By Avis D. Carlson SEE ALSO: Career as St. Louis (Mo.) mayor; Citizen participation; City planning; Civic improvement; Mayors; Tucker, Raymond R.; St. Louis; Urban renewal PDF IMAGES
80-88	Article Dr. Rosenbach: The tycoon of rare books By John Tracy Winterich SEE ALSO: Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf); Antiquarian booksellers; Career as antiquarian bookseller; Expertising; Rare books PDF IMAGES
90-91	After hours/Article Magic By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Kallman, Chester; Balanchine, George; Reardon, John; Price, Leontyne; Performances; The magic flute (Motion picture); Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
91-93	After hours/Article Moon mistress By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Drama; Film criticism; Historical films; Turner, Lana; Performances; Time (American periodical); Poitiers, Diane de, duchess of Valentinois PDF IMAGES
96-103	The new books/Review Unconventional memoirs . . . novels of loyalty, and others . . . the North By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: All honorable men (Book); Ayorama (Book); Behind the mountains (Book); Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples); Karp, David; O'Neill, Eugene; Kirst, Hans Hellmut; Amis, Kingsley; Long day's journey into night (Book); Mr. Hamish Gleave (Book); La Farge, Oliver; King, Paul; Berton, Pierre; De Coccola, Raymond; Llewellyn, Richard; Surprised by joy (Book); That uncertain feeling (Book); The mysterious North (Book); The revolt of Gunner Asch (Book) PDF IMAGES
103-107	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Aspects of love (Book); Garnett, David; Ives, Elizabeth Stevenson; Hunter, Evan; Breit, Harvey; Dolson, Hildegarde; Vasiliu, Mircea; My brother Adlai (Book); Kramer, N. Martin; Prescott, Orville; Second ending (Book); The five-dollar gold piece (Book); The hearth and the strangeness (Book); The writer observed (Book) PDF IMAGES
107-108	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Hoehling, A.A. (Adolph A.); Friedman, Albert B.; Detective and mystery stories; Don't look back! (Book); Grierson, Edward; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Evenings with the orchestra (Book); Gardening; Simenon, Georges; Geraniums for windows and gardens (Book); Stone, Hampton; Berlioz, Hector; Helen Keller: sketch for a portrait (Book); Wilson, Helen Van Pelt; How to make cut flowers last (Book); Hunt the man down (Book); Inspector Maigret and the burglar's wife (Book); Barzun, Jacques; Dineen, Joseph F.; Erskine, Margaret; Hoehling, Mary Duprey; Men and gardens (Book); Borgenicht, Miriam; Murder is where you find it (Book); Music; Music in America (Book); Mystery stories (Book); Fairbrother, Nan; Orchestral accents (Book); Stout, Rex; Richard Korn; Hansen, Robert P.; Chotzinoff, Samuel; Ellin, Stanley; The case of the demure defendant (Book); The last voyage of the Lusitania (Book); The second man (Book); The strangler who wouldn't let go (Book); The Viking book of folk ballads of the English speaking world (Book); The voice of murder (Book); Three witnesses, a Nero Wolfe threesome (Book); Toscanini: an intimate portrait (Book); Underworld U.S.A. (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; Kasperski, Victoria R.; Pearson, William PDF IMAGES
110-111	The new recordings/Review The vanishing bray de burro By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Rodzinski, Artur; Bach: Goldberg variations (Sound recording); Bach: Partita in E; Sonata in A minor (Sound recording); Beethoven: Violin concerto (Sound recording); Saint-Saëns, Camille; Munch, Charles; Collectors and collecting; Oistrakh, David Fedorovich; Dessoff Choirs; Chausson, Ernest; Wright, George; Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da; Gould, Glenn; Berlioz, Hector; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Leclair; Locatelli-Ysaye; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Oistrakh-Munch: Chausson: Poème. Saint-Saëns: Introduction and rondo capriccioso. Berlioz: Instrumental excerpts, “Romeo and Juliet” (Sound recording); Organs; Palestrina: Mass “Assumpta est Maria”; Magnificat; Stabat mater (Sound recording); Performances; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Philharmonic Symphony of London; Pittsburgh Symphony; Prokofieff: Violin sonata in F minor, op. 80. Leclair: Sonata #3. Locatelli-Ysaye: Sonata in F minor (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 (“Pathétique”) (Sound recording); Steinberg, William PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Rawsthorne, Alan; An evening of folk songs with the Trapp family (Sound recording); D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; Demonstration record: Tchaikovsky: 1812 overture; Capriccio italien. Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter overture; Capriccio espagnol (Sound recording); Wasner, Franz; Gilbert & Sullivan: Princess Ida (Sound recording); Godfrey, Isidore; Rossi, Mario; Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay; Old Possum's book of practical cats (Sound recording); Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Sullivan, Arthur, Sir; Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns); Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Gilbert, W.S. (William Schwenck) PDF IMAGES