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March 1957

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Roy McKie SEE ALSO: Dating (Social customs); Noah's ark PDF IMAGES
6-14	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from December 1956: Letter By Frank B. Pesci On “World's finest investments”?, from January 1957: Note/correction Letter By Leon R. Cahen Letter By G.K. Franklin Letter By Mrs. George Day Letter By Bruce Mann Letter By Charles L. Bullock Letter By John B. Shober PDF IMAGES
16-23	The editor's easy chair/Article Report on a prospective partner By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Labour Party (Great Britain); 1945-1964; Socialism PDF IMAGES
23	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
24-27	Personal and otherwise/Article Pinning down the young By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Youth in literature PDF IMAGES
27	Personal and otherwise/Article Recap By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Billboards; Foreign economic relations; Iceland; Influence; Savings bonds PDF IMAGES
29-33	Article American youth goes monogamous By Charles W. Cole SEE ALSO: Dating (Social customs); Intergenerational relations PDF IMAGES
34-36	Article The buffs around us By Eli Waldron SEE ALSO: New words; Syntax PDF IMAGES
36	Poem Ah how my cat Benjamin By Pauline M. Leet PDF IMAGES
37-43	Article The second transport revolution By Marvin J. Barloon SEE ALSO: Express highways; Freight; Inland water transportation; Piggyback transportation; Transportation; Trucking PDF IMAGES
44-48	Article The science without a name By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Electric discharges through gases PDF IMAGES
49-55	Article Manners and morals of the French By David Schoenbrun SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Individualism; Joliot-Curie, Irène; Curie, Marie; National characteristics, French PDF IMAGES
56-62	Article Social work: A profession chasing its tail By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Social service; Vocational guidance; Welfare recipients; Women social workers PDF IMAGES
61	Article Modern woman: The forward sex SEE ALSO: Africa, North; Land mines; Married women PDF IMAGES
63-67	Fiction Evening flight By Don Moser PDF IMAGES
68-74	Article What corrupted Texas? By Ronnie Dugger SEE ALSO: Censorship; Conflict of interests; Corrupt practices; Insurance crimes; Lobbying; 1951-; Political corruption; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
75-77	Article Know what you want By Mark Van Doren SEE ALSO: Van Doren, Carl; Decision-making (Ethics); Influence; Self-knowledge, Theory of; Self-perception PDF IMAGES
77	Article Eyewitness in Hungary By Charles Loring Brace SEE ALSO: Hungary; Kossuth, Lajos; National characteristics, Hungarian; Public opinion; Uprising of 1848-1849 PDF IMAGES
78-81	Article Revolt of the Polish musicians By Paul Moor SEE ALSO: Arts; Censorship; Formalism (Art); Journeys—Poland—Warsaw; Musicians; Boulanger, Nadia; Poland; Socialist realism in art; Warsaw PDF IMAGES
80	Poem College town By Edward Ronald Weismiller PDF IMAGES
84-86	After hours/Article Confessions of a yogurt eater By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Davis, Adelle; Rodale, J.I. (Jerome Irving); Let's cook it right (Book); Organic gardening; Pay dirt: farming and gardening with composts (Book) PDF IMAGES
86-87	After hours/Article A form of slight insanity By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Amateur arts; Art patronage; Rice, Helen; Membership PDF IMAGES
88-98	The new books/Review Where responsibility begins By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A distant drum (Book); A legacy (Book); Camus, Albert; Flood, Charles Bracelen; Locke, Charles O.; Bell, Clive; Sprigge, Elizabeth; Green, Gerald; Gertrude Stein: her life and work (Book); Yaffe, James; Nothing but the night (Book); Old friends (Book); Bedford, Sybille; The fall (Book); The hell bent kid (Book); The last angry man (Book); The loving eye (Book); Sansom, William PDF IMAGES
98-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Dumas, Alexandre; Gabrielson, Catherine; Allen, Frederick Lewis; West, Jessamyn; Keats, John; Marquand, John P. (John Phillips); Goodman, Jules Eckert; Sze, Mai-Mai; Only yesterday: an informal history of the 1920's (Book); Stopover: Tokyo (Book); The crack in the picture window (Book); The road to Monte Cristo: the memoirs of Alexandre Dumas (Book); The story of Gabrielle (Book); The Tao of painting (Book); To see the dream (Book) PDF IMAGES
101-102	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A contribution to the heritage of every American: the conservation activities of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (Book); Air Force: a pictorial history of American airpower (Book); Asia and the West: elements of conflict and co-operation (Book); Ward, Barbara; Day of infamy (Book); Don Camillo takes the devil by the tail (Book); Higbee, Edward Counselman; Edwin Vincent O'Hara, an American prelate (Book); Dingwall, Eric John; Guareschi, Giovanni; Michener, James A. (James Albert); Shaw, James G.(James Gerard); Steinbeck, John; Caidin, Martin; Newhall, Nancy Wynne; Wyckoff, Nicholas Elston; Pies, Otto; Caraman, Philip; Priest of the plague: Henry Morse, S.J. (Book); Bissell, Richard Pike; Burlingame, Roger; Say, darling (Book); Lobsang Rampa, T. (Tuesday); The American conscience (Book); The American oasis: the land and its uses (Book); The American woman: an historical study (Book); The Braintree mission (Book); The bridge at Adnau (Book); The politics of industry (Book); The short reign of Pippin IV (Book); The third eye: the autobiography of a Tibetan lama (Book); The victory of Father Karl (Book); Lord, Walter; Hamilton, Walton Hale PDF IMAGES
102	Books in brief/Review Children's books By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Children's books; Want lists PDF IMAGES
104-110	The new recordings/Review Knowing the unknown By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Deller, Alfred; Winograd, Arthur; Berlin Philharmonic; Berwald: Symphony in C (“Singulière”); Symphony in E flat (Sound recording); Binchois: Mass. Secular pieces by Isaac, Crequillon, Gerard, etc. (Burgundian school) (Sound recording); Colombo; Eeckhout; Chausson, Ernest; Fauré: Masques and bergamasques, op. 112 (1920). Duparc: Lénore (tone poem, 1875). Chausson: Viviane (tone poem, 1882) (Sound recording); Berwald, Franz; Fauré, Gabriel; Binchois, Gilles; Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista; Brown, Harold; Duparc, Henri; Markevitch, Igor; Rameau, Jean Philippe; Rosenmüller, Johann; La Lande: Symphonies pour les soupers du roi. Rameau: Musique de ballet (Les paladins, first and second suites) (Sound recording); Gardelli, Lamberto; Lalande, Michel Richard de; Performances; Pergolesi (?): Il Maestro de musica (Sound recording); Philharmonia Orchestra of Hamburg; Rosenmüller: In te, Domine; Die Augen des Herrn; Confiteor tibi; Nunc dimittis (Sound recording); The Renaissance chorus (Sound recording); Byrd, William; William Byrd and his age (Sound recording); Tessier, Yves PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Boyd Neel String Orchestra; Dart; Grossmann, Ferdinand; Reiner, Fritz; Fauré, Gabriel; Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Ravel, Maurice; Mr. Bach at Vauxhall Gardens (Sound recording); Palestrina: Masses “Papae Marcelli” and "Assumpta est Maria (Sound recording); Ravel: Trio in A minor. Fauré: Trio in D minor, op. 120 (Sound recording); Strauss, Richard; Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel: death and transfiguration (Sound recording); Vienna Philharmonia PDF IMAGES