Harper's Magazine: September 1956

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September 1956

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Robert Chesley Osborn SEE ALSO: Dulles, John Foster; Officials and employees; Portraits; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Running barefoot through a hayloft full of ten-dollar bills, from July 1956: Letter By D.W. (Denis William) Brogan On Citizen, from July 1956: Letter By Dean M. Kelley On The stream and the self, from July 1956: Letter By J.C. (Joseph Chamberlain) Furnas Letter By Paul Pickrel PDF IMAGES
12-20	The easy chair/Review The conspirators By Richard Halworth Rovere SEE ALSO: Community life; Conspiracies; 1945-1970; Social institutions PDF IMAGES
22-25	Personal and otherwise/Article Johnny-on-the-spot By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. secretary of state; Dulles, John Foster; Officials and employees; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
25	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
27-34	Article John Foster Dulles: A very complicated man By Joseph C. (Joseph Close) Harsch SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. secretary of state; Cold War; Diplomats; Dulles, John Foster; 1953-1961; Officials and employees; Psychology; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
35-39	Article The order of the Turkish bath By Geoffrey Flavell SEE ALSO: Algeria; Baths, Turkish; British; Islamic countries; Public baths PDF IMAGES
40-45	Article Russian roulette on our airways? By Ernest Conine SEE ALSO: Air traffic control; Aircraft accidents; Airplanes; Investigation PDF IMAGES
46-49	Article A few words from the shelf By Bruce Bliven SEE ALSO: Aged; Intergenerational relations; Retirees PDF IMAGES
50-55	Article Wanted: More politics in defense By Gordon Scott Harrison SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Defenses; Deterrence (Strategy); Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Military policy; 1953-1961; Operational readiness PDF IMAGES
55	Article Code: How to deal with sorcerers By Henri Boguet SEE ALSO: Evidence, Hearsay; Magicians; Trials (Witchcraft) PDF IMAGES
56-62	Fiction The bandits: A story By William Eastlake PDF IMAGES
63-68	Article Ballard vs. the installment Goliaths By Ruth Brecher and Edward M. Brecher SEE ALSO: Conflict of laws; Consumer credit; Corrupt practices; Sales, Conditional; Ballard, Sam; Trials, litigation, etc.; Truck drivers; Trucking PDF IMAGES
67	Poem Cook's detour By Felicia Lamport PDF IMAGES
69-72	Article What was good enough for Mr. Rochester By Sylvia Wright PDF IMAGES
72	Poem New chitons for old gods (symmetrics) By David Thompson Watson McCord PDF IMAGES
73-78	Article Why labor should vote Republican By Arthur Larson SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; Labor laws and legislation; Leadership; 1953-1961; The Republican Party; Trade-unions; United States. Congress; Working class PDF IMAGES
78	Article The original egghead saves the party By Owen Johnson SEE ALSO: Intellectuals; Political parties PDF IMAGES
80-81	After hours/Article Revival of the fanciest By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Collectors and collecting; Knowledge—Favrile glass; Tiffany, Louis Comfort; Revival movements (Art) PDF IMAGES
81-82	After hours/Article Grease my wheels By Agnes Allen SEE ALSO: Air travel; Public Relations; Transportation PDF IMAGES
83-87	The new books/Review We are on a journey . . . By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A certain smile (Book); A family party (Book); Azalaï (Book); Beowulf (Book); Bryher; FitzGibbon, Constantine; Contemporary capitalism (Book); Sagan, Françoise; Wendt, Herbert; In search of Adam (Book); Burns, James MacGregor; O'Hara, John; Skolle, John; Strachey, John; Warren, Robert Penn; Roosevelt: the lion and the fox (Book); Segregation (Book); The fair game (Book); The sound of waves (Book); Mishima, Yukio PDF IMAGES
87-90	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: All the kingdoms of the earth (Book); Angel's random (Book); Holiday, Billie; Dodge, David; Ashton, Helen; Hoke Norris; Godden, Jon; Lady sing the blues (Book); Beheler, Laura; Shellabarger, Samuel; The Half-Crown House (Book); The paper dolls (Book); The seven islands (Book); Tolbecken (Book); Dufty, William PDF IMAGES
90-91	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Animal friends and foes (Book); Animals; Animals all (Book); Bryson, Bernarda; Center ring, the people of the circus (Book); Circus; Circus! From Rome to Ringling (Book); Durrell, Gerald Malcolm; Rey, H.A.; Smith, J.L.B.(James Leonard Brierley); Huxley, Julian; Kingdom of the beasts (Book); Murray, Marian; Breland, Osmond Philip; Skelton, P.W.; Hill, Ralph Nading; Taylor, Robert Lewis; Platt, Rutherford Hayes; See the circus (Book); The drunken forest (Book); The river of life (Book); The search beneath the sea (Book); Suschitsky, W.; Window in the sea (Book) PDF IMAGES
92-94	The new recordings/Review Early music By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Deller, Alfred; Patterson, Alfred Nash; Ambrosian Singers; Buxtehude: Organ fugue in C major (Sound recording); Buxtehude, Dietrich; Dufay: Missa caput (Sound recording); Heiller, Erna; Ormandy, Eugene; Hunter, George; Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da; Dufay, Guillaume; Gillesberger, Hans; Noorman, Jantina; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Lassus; Machaut: Motets, ballades, virelais, rondeaux (Sound recording); Siderer, Mathilde; Palestrina: Mass “Veni sponsa Christi.” Lassus: Mass “Puisque j'ai perdu” (Sound recording); Performances; Philadelphia Orchestra; Renaissance choral music (Sound recording); Krause, Richard; Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah the prophet; Hymns for alternating plainsong and polyphony (Sound recording); The Philadelphia Orchestra plays Bach (Sound recording); Tallis, Thomas; Guillaume, de Machaut PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Baumgartner; Berlin Motet Choir; Berlin Philharmonic; Brahms: A German requiem, op. 45 (Sound recording); Debussy, Claude; Inghelbrecht, D.E. (Désiré Emile); Debussy: Le martyre de Saint Sébastien (Book); Leinsdorf, Erich; Fricsay, Ferenc; Lehmann, Fritz; Brahms, Johannes; Mozart: The magic flute (Sound recording); Mozart: Violin concerto #1, K. 207; Violin concerto #7, K. 271a (Sound recording); Philharmonic Symphony of London; RIAS Symphony Orchestra; St. Hedwig's Choir; Vienna Symphony; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES