Harper's Magazine: October 1957

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October 1957

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tomi Ungerer SEE ALSO: Amityville; Coupons (Retail trade) PDF IMAGES
4-12	Letters/Department Letters On Jargon control program, from August 1957: Letter By Howard J. O'Connor Letter By Ethel Strainchamps Letter By Martha E. Gregg On Why white collar workers can't be organized, from August 1957: Letter By E.L. Hageman Letter By Laurence Rogin Letter By Mark Starr Letter By M.L. Vondra Letter By Margaret Stillwell Letter By Mrs. Howard B. Skelton On George Villiers and other studs, from August 1957: Letter By Richard F. Shaw Letter By Paul L. McKaskle Letter By Mrs. H.B. MacFarland Letter By Mrs. Carl R. Johnson Letter By Morris Horton Letter By Robert E. Hennings PDF IMAGES
16-20	The easy chair/Collection The easy chair By Leo Calvin Rosten PDF IMAGES The easy chair/Article Wanted: Men By Leo Calvin Rosten SEE ALSO: American Traditions Project; Competitions; Documentary television programs; Production and direction PDF IMAGES
17	The easy chair/Article The man who mustn't own a dog By Leo Calvin Rosten SEE ALSO: Leun, A. Vincent; Bulgarians; Career as Bethlehem Steel executive; Dog owners; Welkoff, George; Hellertown; Imprisonment; Legal status, laws, etc.; Refugees, Political PDF IMAGES The easy chair/Article The general's wife By Leo Calvin Rosten SEE ALSO: Gambling; Generals' spouses; Military ethics; Trials (Military offenses) PDF IMAGES The easy chair/Article The two waitresses By Leo Calvin Rosten SEE ALSO: Akron; Imprisonment; Legal status, laws, etc.; Poles; Refugees, Political; Kiszycki, Stanislaw; Vagrancy; Waitresses PDF IMAGES
18	The easy chair/Article The girl in Berkley By Leo Calvin Rosten SEE ALSO: Antisemitism; Mistaken identity; Teenage girls PDF IMAGES The easy chair/Article Southerner with a conscience By Leo Calvin Rosten SEE ALSO: Career as Florida state legislator; Orr, John B, Jr.; Political ethics; School integration; Segregation in education PDF IMAGES
20	The easy chair/Article Free offer By Leo Calvin Rosten SEE ALSO: American Traditions Project; Competitions; Documentary television programs; Production and direction; Television advertising; Television broadcasting PDF IMAGES
22-25	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Our town (Play); Theater and society; Wilder, Thornton PDF IMAGES
27-33	Article Russia's Riviera By John Gunther SEE ALSO: Crimea (Ukraine); Georgia (Republic); 1945-1991; Odessa (Ukraine) PDF IMAGES
29	Poem Odysseus By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
33	Article Wet blanket SEE ALSO: Ex-presidents; Truman, Harry S.; Humor; 1953-1961; Weather forecasting PDF IMAGES
34-35	Article The night the Leaning Tower didn't fall By Herbert Mitgang SEE ALSO: Leaning Tower (Pisa, Italy); Pisa; War correspondents PDF IMAGES
36-43	Article Lee of New Haven and his political jackpot By Jeanne R. Lowe SEE ALSO: Career as New Haven (Conn.) mayor; Mayors; New Haven; New Haven (Conn.); Lee, Richard C. (Richard Charles); Urban renewal PDF IMAGES
44-47	Article The lure of pinball By Julius Segal SEE ALSO: Pinball machines PDF IMAGES
48-51	Article “A platform and a passion or two” By Thornton Wilder SEE ALSO: Drama; Our town (Play); Technique; The matchmaker (Play); The skin of our teeth (Play); Theater and society; Wilder, Thornton PDF IMAGES
51	Poem An autumn wood By Ruthven Todd PDF IMAGES
52-57	Article The great coupon bonanza By Peter Margolies SEE ALSO: Amityville; Compulsive shopping; Coupons (Retail trade); Life (American periodical) PDF IMAGES
58-62	Article British and American schools: What they can learn from each other By Derek Colville SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Basic education; Education and state PDF IMAGES
63-68	Fiction The wire: A story By Ben Maddow PDF IMAGES
69	Article Quit it: ompremitywise By Sylvia Wright SEE ALSO: Deceptive advertising PDF IMAGES
70-73	Article Why women live longer than men By Selig Greenberg SEE ALSO: Life expectancy; Sex differences PDF IMAGES
73	Poem The theology of Jonathan Edwards By Phyllis McGinley PDF IMAGES
74-75	Article What it costs to train a doctor By L.S. Paul SEE ALSO: Family relationships; Medical education; Medical students PDF IMAGES
76-81	Article Bourguiba: A different kind of Arab By Peter Partner SEE ALSO: Arab countries; Career as Tunisia president; Bourguiba, Habib; 1945-1989; 1956-; Portraits; Tunisia PDF IMAGES
84-85	After hours/Article Hostel on a hill By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Motels PDF IMAGES
85-87	After hours/Article Shower of gold By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Art collections; Exhibitions; Clark, Robert Sterling PDF IMAGES
88-99	The new books/Review Postrevolutionary figures By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Come with me to Macedonia (Book); Macdonald, Dwight; Waugh, Evelyn; Scott-Maxwell, Florida; Summers, Hollis Spurgeon; Islam inflamed (Book); Kerouac, Jack; Morris, James; Osborne, John; Drohan, Leonard; Look back in anger (Book); Shulman, Max; On the road (Book); Rally round the flag, boys (Book); Sullivan (Book); The King Ranch (Book); The memoirs of a revolutionist (Book); The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (Book); The weather of February (Book); Lea, Tom; Macken, Walter; Women, and sometimes men (Book) PDF IMAGES
99-102	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A commonplace book (Book); Any number can play (Book); Chute, B.J. (Beatrice Joy); Cast off the darkness (Book); Curtis, Charles P. (Charles Pelham); Fadiman, Clifton; Raisz, Erwin; Stewart, George Rippey; Life photographers: their careers and favorite pictures (Book); Eiseley, Loren C.; Carleton, Marjorie; N.A.1 looking north: from the Canadian border to Circle, Alaska (Book); N.A.1 looking south: from the Mexican border to Costa Rica (Book); Putnam, Peter; Rayfield, Stanley; The blue cap and other stories (Book); The immense journey (Book); The night of the good children (Book) PDF IMAGES
102-103	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A testament (Book); America with love (Book); Architecture of truth; the Cistercian abbey of Le Thoronet in Provence (Book); Gordon, Caroline; Goudge, Elizabeth; Cali, François; Wright, Frank Lloyd; How to read a novel (Book); Silone, Ignazio; Inside outside (Book); Winsor, Kathleen; Hervé, Lucien; Old man and the boy (Book); Ruark, Robert Chester; Lancaster, Osbert, Sir; Taylor Caldwell; The secret of Luke (Book); The sound of thunder (Book); The white witch (Book) PDF IMAGES
103	Books in brief/Article Children's book fairs By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Book industries and trade; Children's literature; Exhibitions PDF IMAGES
106-111	The new recordings/Review Hi-fi, pops, and samplers By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Sibelius, Aino; Ponchielli, Amilcare; Dvorák, Antonín; Fiedler, Arthur; Beethoven: Piano sonatas op. 109, op. 111 (Sound recording); Beethoven: String quartet #12, op. 127 (Sound recording); Boston Pops Orchestra; Brahms: Three rhapsodies (B minor, G minor, E flat); Variations and fugue on a theme by Handel, op. 24 (Sound recording); Debussy, Claude; Debussy: La Mer. Ravel: La Valse; Valses nobles et sentimentales (Sound recording); Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Dvorák: Symphony #2 in D minor, op. 70 (Sound recording); Dvorák: Symphony #5 (“New World”) (Sound recording); Grieg, Edvard; Chabrier, Emmanuel; Ormandy, Eugene; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Prohaska, Felix; Slatkin, Felix; Finlandia: Sibelius: Finlandia; Swan of Tuonela. Grieg: Peer Gynt suite #1. Alfven: Swedish rhapsody (Sound recording); Flamenco! (Sound recording); Soriano, Francesco; Schubert, Franz; Suppé, Franz von; Rossini, Gioacchino; Halffter; Hi-fi Fiedler: Rossini: William Tell overture. Rimsky-Korsakoff: Coq d'or suite. Tchaikovsky: Marche slave (Sound recording); Hollywood Bowl Symphony; Alfvén, Hugo; Turina, Joaquín; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Brahms, Johannes; Stokowski, Leopold; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Falla, Manuel de; Ravel, Maurice; Nights in the gardens of Spain (Sound recording); Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay; Orchestral masterworks of J.S. Bach (Sound recording); Performances; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Philadelphia Orchestra; Kubelík, Rafael; Schumann, Robert; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Schubert: Octet in F, op. 166 (Sound recording); Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Soriano, pianist. Halffter: Homenaje a A. Machado; Shepherd's dance; Gypsy dance. De Falla: Fantasia baetica. Turina: Consueno; Orgia (Sound recording); Soriano, pianist. Mendelssohn: Variations sérieuses, op. 54. Schumann: Three romances, op. 28. Schubert: Sonata in A minor, op. 164 (Sound recording); St. Louis Symphony; Symphonic dances (Sound recording); Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker suite. Chabrier: Espana. Ponchielli: Dance of the hours. Suppé: Morning, noon and night in Vienna (overture) (Sound recording); Tchaikovsky: The nutcracker (excerpts) (Sound recording); The orchestra—full dimensional sound (Sound recording); Escudero, Vicente; Schiøler, Victor; Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet; Vienna Philharmonia; Golschmann, Vladimir PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Wolff, Albert; Daudet, Alphonse; Gabrieli, Andrea; Saint-Saëns, Camille; Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel; Daudet-Bizet: L'Arlésienne (Sound recording); Humperdinck, Engelbert; Maschera, Florentio; Bizet, Georges; Bach, Johann Christian; K.P.E. Bach: concerto for four viols. Maschera: La capriola. Gabrieli: Canzone. Tomasini: Suite for violetta (Sound recording); Beethoven, Ludwig van; Tomasini, Luigi; New York Philharmonic; Strauss, Richard; Mengelberg, Willem; Willem Mengelberg. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Sound recording); Willem Mengelbert. J.C. Bach: Sinfonia in B flat. Mozart: Magic flute overture. Beethoven: Egmont overture. Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel overture. Saint-Saëns: Rouet d'omphale (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES