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September 1957

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	Illustration [Cover art] By G. Hunter Jones SEE ALSO: Actresses; Magnani, Anna; Portraits PDF IMAGES
4-12	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from July 1957: Letter By Arthur Upham Pope On It's only money, from July 1957: Letter By Olin D. (Olin Dewitt) Johnston Letter By James Finucane Letter By “The Editors” Letter By Paul H. Douglas Letter By Jr. and Thomas C. Hennings Letter By Irving M. Ives PDF IMAGES
12	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
14-20	The editor's easy chair/Article Nomination for a Nobel Prize By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Appreciation; By love possessed (Book); Cozzens, James Gould; Nobel Prizes; Novelists, American PDF IMAGES
24-26	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Great Lakes Region; Inland water transportation PDF IMAGES
29-35	Article The coming battle of the St. Lawrence: What the seaway will do to New York . . . what Chicago and the Midwest will fight for . . . the potential conflict with Canada . . . By Marvin J. Barloon SEE ALSO: Freight; Great Lakes Region; Inland navigation; Inland water transportation; North America; Transportation PDF IMAGES
34	Poem Warning By John W. Meyer PDF IMAGES
36-39	Article How to tell when you are obsolete By C. Northcote (Cyril Northcote) Parkinson SEE ALSO: Administrative agencies; Corporations; Headquarters; Management PDF IMAGES
40-45	Article Is the bloom off Madison Avenue? By John McCarthy SEE ALSO: Advertising agencies; Advertising laws; Management PDF IMAGES
44	Article The neutralist, 1788 model By Edward Gibbon SEE ALSO: Neutrality PDF IMAGES
46-51	Fiction The cub: A story By Christine Weston PDF IMAGES
51	Poem Departure: September By Mark Van Doren PDF IMAGES
52-57	Article Italy's greatest actress By Luigi Giorgio Barzini SEE ALSO: Actresses; Magnani, Anna; Criticism and interpretation; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture industry; Portraits PDF IMAGES
57	Poem The wish By Adrienne Cecile Rich PDF IMAGES
58-66	Article The spirit of our times By Lovell Thompson SEE ALSO: Nineteen fifties; Nineteen twenties; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
67-73	Article The Edsel and how it got that way By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Career in automobile industry; Ford, Edsel; Ford Motor Company; Ford, Henry; Marketing; Marketing research PDF IMAGES
74-76	Article The jet that crashed before take-off By Beirne Lay SEE ALSO: Aeronautics, Military; Aircraft accidents; Fighter pilots; Human factors; Training of; United States. Air Force PDF IMAGES
77-84	Article The scandal in TV licensing By Louis Leventhal Jaffe SEE ALSO: Communication policy; Corrupt practices; Licenses; Television broadcasting; United States. Federal Communications Commission PDF IMAGES
84	Article The original formula for situational comedy (I could not love thee half so much loved I not Lucy more.) By Oliver Goldsmith SEE ALSO: English drama (Comedy) PDF IMAGES
86-87	After hours/Article Bard in Boston By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin); Oral interpretation of poetry; Performances; Poets, American PDF IMAGES
87-88	After hours/Article She rolls By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Villiers, Alan John; Atlantic Ocean; Cocktail parties; Marketing; Reproductions; Sailing ships; Seafaring life; Wild ocean: the story of the North Atlantic and the men who sailed it (Book) PDF IMAGES
89	After hours/Article New hall in town By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Centers for the performing arts PDF IMAGES
90-94	The new books/Review Weight & measure in the paperbacks By Harvey Breit SEE ALSO: A century of hero worship (Book); A general selection from the works of Sigmund Freud (Book); A Gilson reader: selections from the writings of Etienne Gilson (Book); Flores, Angel; Pegis, Anton Charles; Rimbaud, Arthur; Booksellers and bookselling; Collected poems (Book); Craft of fiction (Book); Magarshack, David; Rougemont, Denis de; Muir, Edwin; Erasmus and the Age of Reformation (Book); Bentley, Eric; Gilson, Etienne; Fergusson, Francis; Steegmuller, Francis; Santayana, George; Brenan, Gerald; Flaubert, Gustave; Muller, Herbert Joseph; Melville, Herman; Illuminations and other prose poems (Book); Image and idea (Book); Huizinga, Johan; Rickman, John; Laforgue, Jules; Literature of the Spanish people (Book); Love in the western world (Book); Masterpieces of the Spanish Golden Age (Book); Gogoly`, Nikolaæi Vasil§evich; Paperback wholesalers; Lubbock, Percy; Miller, Perry; Rahv, Philip; Redburn: his first voyage (Book); Chase, Richard Volney; Selected writings of Jules Laforgue (Book); Freud, Sigmund; Tales of good and evil (Book); The American novel and its tradition (Book); The English novel (Book); The human image in dramatic literature (Book); The Ox-Bow incident (Book); The selected letters of Gustave Flaubert (Book); The transcendentalists: their prose and poetry (Book); The uses of the past: profiles of former societies (Book); Mann, Thomas; Thomas Mann's essays (Book); Time and western man (Book); Allen, Walter; Clark, Walter Van Tilburg; Smith, William J.; Winds of doctrine and Platonism and the spiritual life (Book); Lewis, Wyndham; Youth PDF IMAGES
95-97	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: American tennis: the story of a game and its people (Book); An air that kills (Book); Maurois, André; Children of the shadows (Book); Coup de grâce (Book); Cocteau, Jean; Millar, Margaret; Yourcenar, Marguerite; West, Morris L.; Cummings, Parke; White, Patrick; Lehmann, Rosamond; The holy terrors (Book); To an unknown lady (Book); Voss (Book) PDF IMAGES
97-99	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A paddling of ducks (Book); Weinberg, Arthur; As far as my feet will carry me (Book); Attorney for the damned: Clarence Darrow in his own words (Book); Be your own nurseryman (Book); Cerf, Bennett A.; Darrow, Clarence; Sington, Derrick; Desert happy (Book); Rigby, Douglas; Bone, Edith; Young, Edith; Playfair, Giles; Heroes behind barbed wire (Book); Hunting annual (Book); Into the wind (Book); Conway, J. Gregory; Bauer, Josef Martin; Hansen, Kenneth K.; Koller, Larry; Giovannitti, Len; Life plus 99 (Book); van Nes, Mary F.; Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal; Of men and marshes (Book); On leisure (Book); Errington, Paul Lester; Cerf, Phyllis; Prisoner in Hungary (Book); Prisoners; Reading for pleasure (Book); Sagendorph, Robb Hansell; Scharf, Robert A.; Osborn, Robert Chesley; Peterson, Roger Tory; Ripley, Sidney Dillon; The bird watcher's anthology (Book); The complete family fun book (Book); The encyclopedia of flower arrangement (Book); The offenders: the case against legal vengeance (Book); The Old Farmer's Almanac sampler (Book); The prisoners of Combine D (Book) PDF IMAGES
101-104	The new recordings/Review Two vocal epochs By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Deller, Alfred; Ambrosian Singers; Monteverdi, Claudio; Grieg, Edvard; Schubert, Franz; Knappertsbusch, Hans; Lawes, Henry; Fjeldstad, Øivin; Kirsen Flagstad Wagner recital (Sound recording); Flagstad, Kirsten; Kirsten Flagstad lieder recital (Sound recording); Kirsten Flagsted Grieg recital (Sound recording); Oslo Philharmonic; Performances; Wagner, Richard; Schumann, Robert; Vienna Philharmonia; Wagner: Die Götterdämmerung (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Béla Bartók at the piano (Sound recording); Bartók: Concerto for orchestra (Sound recording); Bartók: Sonata for two pianos and percussion; Contrasts (clar. & pf.) (Sound recording); Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich; Ansermet, Ernest; Hindemith: The four temperaments; Five pieces op. 44, #4 (educ. music); Funeral music for George V (Sound recording); Kondrashin, Kirill Petrovich; Kurtz; Philippot, Michel; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Hindemith, Paul; Philadelphia Orchestra; Schaeffer, Pierre; Prokofieff: Piano concerto #3; Violin concerto #1 (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Shostakovitch: Symphony #10 (Sound recording); State Radio Orchestra (U.S.S.R.) PDF IMAGES