Harper's Magazine: November 1956

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November 1956

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Artur Marokvia SEE ALSO: Television actors and actresses PDF IMAGES
4-11	Letters/Department Letters On The conspirators, from September 1956: Letter By Edgar Ansel Mowrer PDF IMAGES
12-17	The editor's easy chair/Article March of the hard-boiled eggheads By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Intellectuals; 1956-; Political conventions PDF IMAGES
17	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
20-23	Personal and otherwise/Article A tree grows By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
25-32	Article Television's lords of creation: Part I By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Career in television production; Hole, Leonard; National Broadcasting Company; Weaver, Pat; Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker); Production and direction; Television; Television personalities; Television producers and directors; The big wave (Television program) PDF IMAGES
33-39	Article Almost strictly for the birds By John Sack SEE ALSO: Harmon, Albion; Home rule; Homes and haunts—England—Lundy Island; Puffins PDF IMAGES
40-45	Article Frontiers of religion By George Percy Hedley SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Bible; Christian art and symbolism; Christianity and other religions; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Dead Sea scrolls; Historiography; Relation to the New Testament PDF IMAGES
46-49	Fiction Digging the Weans: A story By Robert Nathan PDF IMAGES
50-56	Article Shivers of Texas: A tragedy in three acts By D.B. Hardeman SEE ALSO: Shivers, Allan; Career as Texas governor; Governors; Insurance crimes; 1951-; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
56	Poem To be black, to be lost . . . By Hannah Kahn PDF IMAGES
57-60	Article The things the world wants By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Bicycles; Clocks and watches; Commerce; Consumer behavior; Developing countries; Fountain pens; Western influences PDF IMAGES
61-65	Article England gets a race problem By Norman Ian MacKenzie SEE ALSO: Immigrants; Jamaicans; Racism; West Indies, British PDF IMAGES
66-69	Article Chinese puzzle at the UN By William Howell Wells SEE ALSO: Chinese reunification question, 1949-; Membership; 1949-1976; Taiwan; United Nations; United Nations. Security Council PDF IMAGES
69	Poem Advice for a wedding By Allen Kanfer PDF IMAGES
70-76	Article The polar path: Where every direction is south By Wolfgang Langewiesche SEE ALSO: Aerial exploration; Aeronautical charts; Airways; Arctic regions; Navigation (Aeronautics); North Pole PDF IMAGES
76	Poem On a philosophical system By Celeste Turner Wright PDF IMAGES
80-81	After hours/Article Oedipus, schmedipus By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Antigone (Play); Antigone (Television program); Greek drama (Tragedy); Galantière, Lewis; Oedipus (Motion picture); Oedipus (Play); Presentation, Modern; Guthrie, Tyrone, Sir; Sophocles PDF IMAGES
81-82	After hours/Article Music to not listen to By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Benjamin, Edward B.; Environmental music; Knowledge—Environmental music; Stokowski, Leopold; Restful (good) music (Sound recording); Diehl, Walter S. (Walter Stuart) PDF IMAGES
82-83	After hours/Article Better buildings By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in architecture; Public architecture; Lescaze, William PDF IMAGES
86-100	The new books/Review The home life of the amphibian, and unallied subjects By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Able Company (Book); Huxley, Aldous; Anglo-Saxon attitudes (Book); Wilson, Angus; Arms and men (Book); Battles and leaders of the Civil War (Book); Catton, Bruce; Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy); Hollands, D.J.; Tesch, Gerald; Homecoming (Book); Wolff, Maritta; Bradford, Ned; Never the same again (Book); The big nickelodeon (Book); The curve of the snowflake (Book); This hallowed ground (Book); Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow (Book); Walter, W. Grey; Millis, Walter PDF IMAGES
88	The new books/Review Book list for children: Match the book to the child By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Children's books; Want lists PDF IMAGES
100-105	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Liljesvan, Anna-Bita; McCormick, Anne O'Hare; Born in wedlock (Book); McCardell, Claire; Corbett, E.T. (Elizabeth T.); Giovanni's room (Book); Lewis, Grace Hegger; Baldwin, James; Smallzreid, Kathleen; Auchincloss, Louis; Echard, Margaret; Sheehan, Marion; The city of the living and other stories (Book); The everlasting pleasure (Book); The great world and Timothy Colt (Book); The head of Apollo (Book); The world at home: selections from the writings of Anne O'Hare McCormick (Book); Stegner, Wallace Earle; What shall I wear? (Book); With love from Gracie (Book) PDF IMAGES
105	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A surfeit of honey (Book); Atlas shrugged (Book); Rand, Ayn; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Davis, H.L. (Harold Lenoir); Krutch, Joseph Wood; Waltari, Mika; Lynes, Russell; The case of the lucky loser (Book); The distant music (Book); The Etruscan (Book); The great chain of life (Book); The third Rome (Book); Chambers, Whittaker PDF IMAGES
106-112	The new recordings/Review The need for silence By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Brahms: Hungarian dances, complete (Sound recording); Divine liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Sound recording); Stravinsky, Igor; Brahms, Johannes; Rossi, Mario; Netherlands Chamber Choir; Afonsky, Nicholas; Noise pollution; Performances; Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; Goodman, Saul; Stravinsky: Les noces (1914-23); Mass (1948); Pater noster; Ave Maria (1926, 1934) (Sound recording); Vienna State Opera Orchestra PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Winograd, Arthur; Cimarosa: Il Matrimonio segreto (Sound recording); Cleveland Orchestra; Cimarosa, Domenico; Poulenc, Francis; Glinka: Russlan and Ludmilla, complete (Sound recording); Stravinsky, Igor; Kondrashin, Kirill Petrovich; Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich; Sanzogno, Nino; Philharmonia Orchestra of Hamburg; Poulenc: Concerto for organ, strings, and timpani. Hanson: Concerto for organ, strings, and harp (Sound recording); Prokofiev: The love for three oranges, op. 33, complete (Sound recording); Schumann, Robert; Schumann: Symphonic etudes, op. 13; Scenes from childhood, op. 15 (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Stravinsky: The fairy's kiss, complete ballet (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES