Harper's Magazine: January 1957

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January 1957

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Burt Goldblatt SEE ALSO: United States. Army. Composite Unit (Provisional), 5307th PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On The harm good people do, from October 1956: Letter By Anne M. Praus Letter By Thomas P. Byrne On March of the hard-boiled eggheads, from November 1956: Letter By Hugh Russell Fraser PDF IMAGES
12-20	The editor's easy chair/Article “World's finest investments”? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Effect of inflation on; Government advertising; Investments; Savings bonds PDF IMAGES
20	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
21-24	Advertising Supplement In the interest of 103,000,000 Americans SEE ALSO: Insurance companies; Insurance, Life; Investments PDF IMAGES
25-27	Personal and otherwise/Article Genius, talent, and Liberace By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Creative ability; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
29-44	Article Merrill's Marauders: The truth about an incredible adventure By Charlton Ogburn SEE ALSO: Burma; Campaigns; Personal narratives, American; Regimental histories; United States. Army. Composite Unit (Provisional), 5307th PDF IMAGES
45-47	Article ERMA, the automatic banker By Bruce Bliven SEE ALSO: Automated tellers; Automation; Menlo Park PDF IMAGES
48-53	Article The great hunt for educated talent By John William Gardner SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; College graduates; Creative ability; Education, Higher; Gifted persons; Professions; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
53	Article Triumph and disaster By Ian Anstruther SEE ALSO: Africa, Central; Biography; Explorers; Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton) PDF IMAGES
54-58	Article A better way to adopt a baby By Keith Monroe SEE ALSO: Los Angeles PDF IMAGES
57	Poem Twentieth century pastoral: Croquet By Fred Lape PDF IMAGES
59-66	Fiction First voice: A story By Robin White PDF IMAGES
67-70	Article Damage suits: A primrose path to immorality By Morton M. Hunt SEE ALSO: Compensation (Law); Liability (Law); Personal injuries PDF IMAGES
71-72	Article Picking your mate with a menu By Sylvia Wright SEE ALSO: Nutrition PDF IMAGES
73-79	Article Who really runs the Senate? Men of more than distinction (part II) By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio); Leadership; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1953-1961; Separation of powers; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
79	Article Speak up, man: Stop talking English! SEE ALSO: Atlantic; Cables, Submarine; Dialects; Telephone etiquette PDF IMAGES
80-82	After hours/Article Ornament to spare By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Bank buildings; Career in architecture; Conservation and restoration; Decoration; Decoration and ornament, Architectural; Historic buildings; Sullivan, Louis H.; Public architecture PDF IMAGES
82-83	After hours/Article Mr. Morgan's library By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; Homes and haunts; Morgan, John Pierpont; Pierpont Morgan Library (New York, New York); Rare books; Traveling exhibitions PDF IMAGES
83	After hours/Article Some corner of a foreign land By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Marriage customs and rites; Texans PDF IMAGES
85-90	The new books/Review From society back to people By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A surfeit of honey (Book); Constraint and variety in American education (Book); West, Rebecca, Dame; Fuchs, Daniel; Riesman, David; Forms and patterns in nature (Book); Blond, Georges; Stafford, Jean; Cheever, John; Von Mises, Ludwig; Wernick, Robert; Lynes, Russell; Stories (Book); The anti-capitalistic mentality (Book); The fountain overflows (Book); The great migrations (Book); The organization man (Book); They've got your number (Book); Whyte, William Hollingsworth; Maxwell, William; Strache, Wolf PDF IMAGES
90-92	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Fair, A.A.; Bridge, Ann; Beware the curves (Book); Collected poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Book); Millay, Edna St. Vincent; Frederic Wertham; Parker, James Reid; Albrand, Martha; More recipes with a jug of wine (Book); Wood, Morrison; Millay, Norma; The circle of guilt (Book); The Hokinson festival (Book); The lighthearted quest (Book); The Linden affair (Book); The loving couple (Book); Rowans, Virginia PDF IMAGES
92-93	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Le May, Alan; Hatch, Alden; Hayes, Alfred; Arctic bride (Book); Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; Bon voyage (Book); Gill, Brendan; Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame; Pope, Dudley; Slaughter, Frank G.(Frank Gill); Norris, Frank; Pawle, Gerald; Silone, Ignazio; De Hartog, Jan; Cheever, John; Hayes, Joseph Arnold; Smith, Lillian Eugenia; Hayes, Marrijane; My face for all the world to see (Book); Farson, Negley; One hour (Book); Walshe, Seamus; Sword and scalpel (Book); The age of Roosevelt: the crisis of the old order (Book); The crown of glory (Book); The day the money stopped (Book); The life and death of a raider (Book); The scapegoat (Book); The secret of Luke (Book); The secret war (Book); The spiral road (Book); The trespassers (Book); The Wapshot chronicle (Book); The way of the transgressor (Book); Tower in the West (Book); Tolboom, Wanda Neill PDF IMAGES
94-96	The new recordings/Review Contemporary music By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Foldes, Andor; Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Divertimento for strings (1939). Charles Ives: The unanswered question. Milhaud: Symphony #4 for strings. Skalkottas: Little suite for strings (Sound recording); Bartók: Microcosmos (complete) (Sound recording); Bartók: Music for strings, percussion and celesta (1936); Dance suite (1923) (Sound recording); Surinach, Carlos; Ives, Charles; McPhee, Colin; Milhaud, Darius; Fernadi, Edith; Carter, Elliott; Elliott Carter: String quartet (Sound recording); Fricsay, Ferenc; Hindemith: Nobilissima visione (1938); Symphonic metamorphoses on themes of Weber (1943) (Sound recording); Keilberth, Joseph; Foss, Lukas; Skalkottas, Nikos; Hindemith, Paul; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra of Hamburg; RIAS Symphony Orchestra; Sessions, Roger; Roger Sessions: Second string quartet. Colin McPhee: Concerto for piano with wind octette accompaniment (1928) (Sound recording); Voisin, Roger; The piano music of Béla Bartók (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Schnabel, Artur; Beethoven: the thirty-two piano sonatas (Sound recording); Stein, Gertrude; Gertrude Stein reads from her works (Sound recording); Beethoven, Ludwig van; Performances PDF IMAGES