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October 1956

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Arthur Shilstone SEE ALSO: Popes; Vatican Palace (Vatican City) PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Wordwise, I am fedwise up, from August 1956: Letter By John K. MacKenzie On Charitable choo-choo, from August 1956: Letter By Agnes Rogers Allen PDF IMAGES
14-20	The editor's easy chair/Article The harm good people do By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Censorship; Church and social problems; Literature and morals; Paperbacks; Prohibited books PDF IMAGES
22-25	Personal and otherwise/Article The irrepressible Americans By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cultural relations; Relations PDF IMAGES
25	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
27-34	Article The next Pope By Luigi Giorgio Barzini SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Government; Influence; Papacy; Pius XII, Pope; Popes PDF IMAGES
35-38	Article 247 Christmas cards By Edward Streeter SEE ALSO: Christmas cards; Cost and standard of living PDF IMAGES
38	Poem Bufo vulgaris By John Ciardi PDF IMAGES
39-44	Article How to throw away an air base By Porter McKeever SEE ALSO: Cold War; Fishery law and legislation; Foreign economic relations; Iceland; International trade; Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
44	Poem Hadrian's lullaby (animula vagula blandula . . .) By Anne Goodwin Winslow PDF IMAGES
45-52	Fiction The trial of Mr. M: A story By Louis Auchincloss PDF IMAGES
53-54	Poem The Eleventh Commandment: The Phi Beta Kappa poem, Harvard University, 1956 By John Holmes PDF IMAGES
55-60	Article The fight for Congress By Charles B. Seib SEE ALSO: Elections, 1956; 1953-1961; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
61-63	Article The pond By Leonard Hall SEE ALSO: Farm life PDF IMAGES
64-68	Article The fall and rise of the University of Maryland By Bayard Webster SEE ALSO: Career as University of Maryland president; Football; Byrd, Harry Clifton; Elkins, Wilson H. PDF IMAGES
69-75	Article Style in science By John Rader Platt SEE ALSO: Creative ability in science; Discoveries in science; Knowledge, Theory of; Philosophy; Scientists PDF IMAGES
75	Article Footnote on Suez By Bayard Taylor SEE ALSO: Taylor, Bayard; Egypt; Journeys—Egypt—Humor PDF IMAGES
78-80	After hours/Article Sexboat By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Automobile ownership; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
80-81	After hours/Article Mass-produced individuality By Lee Edson SEE ALSO: Architecture, Domestic; Planned communities; Population PDF IMAGES
82-95	The new books/Review All about people By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A Catholic runs for President (Book); Varna, Andrew; Bernard Shaw: his life, work, and friends (Book); Wilson, Colin; Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of; Moore, Edmund A.; Warner, Emily Smith; Moraes, F.R. (Francis Robert); Gift of time (Book); Daniel, Hawthorn; Jawaharlal Nehru (Book); Hulme, Kathryn; Rice, Robert; Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer); The business of crime (Book); The happy warrior: a biography of my father (Book); The heart has its reasons (Book); The nun's story (Book); The outsider (Book) PDF IMAGES
95-98	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Wiseman, Adele; Bodart, Anne; Mercer, Charles E.; Durrell, Gerald Malcolm; Monsarrat, Nicholas; Rachel Cade (Book); The blue dog (Book); The drunken forest (Book); The sacrifice (Book); The tribe that lost its head (Book) PDF IMAGES
99	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A pictorial history of burlesque (Book); Sobel, Bernard; McCardell, Claire; Diamond (Book); Lee, Edna Earle Lee; La Roe, Else K. (Else Kienle); Hahn, Emily; Pound, Ezra; Palmer, Harriet Gardner; House of women (Book); How to stay a lady and make money (Book); Lasser, J.K. (Jacob Kay); Brown, John Mason; Yamata, Kikou; Kordel, Lelord; Live to enjoy the money you make (Book); Wellman, Paul Iselin; Sophocles; The Ladies' Home Journal treasury (Book); The walls of Jericho (Book); Three geishas (Book); What shall I wear? The what, where, when and how much of fashion (Book); Woman surgeon (Book); Women of Trachis (Book); Your business taxes (Book) PDF IMAGES
100-104	The new recordings/Review American in Paris By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Haieff, Alexei; Ives, Charles; Griffes, Charles Tomlinson; McPhee, Colin; Colin McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan. Elliott Carter: The minotaur (ballet suite) (Sound recording); Eastman-Rochester Symphony; Carter, Elliott; Griffes: Roman sketches, op. 7; Three tone pictures, op. 5; Fantasy pieces, op. 6 (Sound recording); Haieff: Concerto for piano and orchestra (1952) (Sound recording); Haieff: Four juke box pieces; Five piano pieces (Sound recording); Walther, Hans-Jürgen; Hanson; Ives: Violin sonata #2; Violin sonata #3; Violin sonata #4 (“Children's Day at the Camp Meeting”) (Sound recording); Jazz; Engdahl, Lenore; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra of Hamburg PDF IMAGES