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April 1957

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Gluyas Williams SEE ALSO: Commuters; Railroad stations PDF IMAGES
4-12	Letters/Department Letters On Sounds of the times, from February 1957: Letter By Arthur Schwartz On The well of English somewhat defiled, from February 1957: Letter By Arthur B. Brenner PDF IMAGES
14-20	The editor's easy chair/Article This hurts me more than it hurts Mr. Harrington By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Depletion allowances; Fiscal policy; Tax returns PDF IMAGES
20	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
21-24	Advertising Supplement Health insurance and the American public By Edwin J. (Edwin Jerome) Faulkner SEE ALSO: Insurance, Health PDF IMAGES
25-27	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Shanghai; Traffic congestion PDF IMAGES
29-33	Article A better deal for commuters By George Alpert SEE ALSO: Commuters; Commuting traffic; Local transit; Regional planning; Traffic congestion PDF IMAGES
33	Article The lace curtain SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, Soviet; Propaganda, Communist; Soviets (People) PDF IMAGES
34-37	Article Warning to women traveling in Italy By Edith Templeton SEE ALSO: Men; Sexual ethics; Women travelers PDF IMAGES
37	Collection From American panels By Ernest Kroll PDF IMAGES Poem Marine By Ernest Kroll PDF IMAGES Poem Armored car By Ernest Kroll PDF IMAGES Poem Diner By Ernest Kroll PDF IMAGES Poem Crab grass By Ernest Kroll PDF IMAGES Poem Church supper By Ernest Kroll PDF IMAGES
38-43	Article Heart surgery: A new attack on our number 1 killer By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Cardiopulmonary bypass; Heart; Surgery PDF IMAGES
44-50	Article Stranded in Kansas City: Or, a fate worse than vaudeville (first of two articles) By Gypsy Rose Lee SEE ALSO: Biography; Burlesque (Theater); Lee, Gypsy Rose; Kansas City; Stripteasers; Vaudeville PDF IMAGES
49	Article Anything but that! By Mark Abrams SEE ALSO: Vocational guidance PDF IMAGES
51-55	Article When and how the South will integrate By Benjamin Muse SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Racism; School integration PDF IMAGES
56-59	Article Are you a guilty parent? By Jerome D. (Jerome David) Frank SEE ALSO: Corporal punishment; Discipline of children; Parenting PDF IMAGES
60-64	Fiction The decision: A story By Tom Burnam PDF IMAGES
64	Poem A winter's tale By Barbara Watson PDF IMAGES
65-69	Article How to beat the critics By Walter Kerr SEE ALSO: Dramatic criticism; Production and direction; Theater critics PDF IMAGES
70-74	Article What the Hungarians say about western propaganda By Franz Spelman SEE ALSO: Hungary; International broadcasting; Management; Radio audiences; Radio in propaganda; Revolution, 1956; Voice of America (Organization) PDF IMAGES
75-82	Article The new American conservatives: Who are they and what do they want? By Clinton Lawrence Rossiter SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Conservatism; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); 1953-1961; Right and left (Political science); Views on politics; Lippmann, Walter PDF IMAGES
82	Poem My father's death By May Sarton PDF IMAGES
84-85	After hours/Article The persecuted majority By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Pedestrian accidents; Safety measures PDF IMAGES
85-86	After hours/Article Master of mime By John Fischer SEE ALSO: French drama; Barrault, Jean Louis; Le livre de Christophe Colomb (Play); Renaud, Madeleine; Mimes; Claudel, Paul; Performances; Theater audiences PDF IMAGES
86	After hours/Article Elvis, the indigenous By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as rock musician—Humor; Czechoslovakia; Presley, Elvis; Propaganda, Communist; Rock music fans; Rock musicians PDF IMAGES
87-96	The new books/Review A book about words and some words about books By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A dictionary of American-English usage (Book); Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; Wall, Bernard; Cotterell, Geoffrey; Merrill, James Ingram; Cheever, John; Nicholson, Margaret; Pnin (Book); Bissell, Richard Pike; Say, darling (Book); The crisis of the old order (Book); The seraglio (Book); The strange enchantment (Book); The Vatican story (Book); The Wapshot chronicle (Book); Morrison, Theodore; To make a world (Book); Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich PDF IMAGES
96-100	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: West, Anthony; Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame; Day of infamy (Book); Bassing, Eileen; Home before dark (Book); Michener, James A. (James Albert); Sharp, Margery; Mortimer, Penelope; Principles and persuasions (Book); The bridge at Andau (Book); The bright prison (Book); The eye of love (Book); The sailor, sense of humor, and other stories (Book); The scapegoat (Book); Pritchett, V.S. (Victor Sawdon); Lord, Walter PDF IMAGES
100-101	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Adenauer and the new Germany (Book); Myrer, Anton; Bryant, Arthur; Codman, Charles R.; Drive: a chronicle of Patton's army (Book); Alexander, Edgar; Fielding, Gabriel; Reitlinger, Gerald; Germany: promise and threat to Europe (Book); Kohn, Hans; In the time of Greenbloom (Book); Jones, James; Letter from Peking (Book); Aldanov, Mark; Nightmare and dawn (Book); Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker); Some came running (Book); The big war (Book); The SS: alibi of a nation, 1922-1945 (Book); The turn of the tide (Book); The unknown soldier (Book); Linna, Väinö PDF IMAGES
102-104	The new recordings/Review Skim milk and cream By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Tansman, Alexandre; Grumiaux, Arthur; Bartók, Béla; Bach for percussion: Toccata and fugue in D minor; “Great” G minor fugue; Toccata in F minor; Fugue in C (Sound recording); Bamberg Symphony; Bartók: Sonata #1 for violin and piano (1921) (Sound recording); Beethoven: “Add-a-soloist”: Piano concerto #1; Piano concerto #3 (Sound recording); Goltz, Christel; Haskil, Clara; Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich; Kabalevsky, Dmitry Borisovich; Litschauer, Franz; Gilbert and Sullivan: The do-it-yourself H.M.S. Pinafore (Sound recording); Hollreiser, Heinrich; Hindemith: Piano sonata #1; Piano sonata #3 (1936) (Sound recording); Bach, Johann Sebastian; Perlea, Jonel; Hambro, Leonid; Shankson, Louis; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Tipo, Maria; Mozart: Church sonatas for several instruments and organ (Sound recording); Mozart: Sonata in B flat, K. 454; Sonata in A, K. 526 (Sound recording); Badura-Skoda, Paul; Hindemith, Paul; Kempen, Paul van; Performances; Piano concerto #21 in C, K. 467; Piano concerto #25 in C, K. 503 (Sound recording); Strauss, Richard; Mann, Robert; Schumann, Robert; Reinhardt, Rolf; Schumann: Symphonic etudes, op. 13; Scenes from childhood, op. 15 (Sound recording); Shostakovitch: Symphony #1. Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon suite, op. 24 (Sound recording); Sullivan, Arthur, Sir; Glick, Srul Irving; St. Louis Symphony; Strauss: Metamorphoses (1945); Four last songs (1948) (Sound recording); Tansman: Isaiah, the prophet (Sound recording); Golschmann, Vladimir; Gilbert, W.S. (William Schwenck); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby PDF IMAGES