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November 1957

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Robert Chesley Osborn SEE ALSO: Civil defense PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Nomination for a Nobel Prize, from September 1957: Letter By Herbert G. King Letter By Evan Thomas On Weight & measure in the paperbacks, from September 1957: Letter By Charles M. Antin PDF IMAGES
12-20	The easy chair/Article Intelligence services: Their use and misuse By Harold George, Sir Nicolson SEE ALSO: Diplomatic and consular service, British; Diplomatic etiquette; Egypt; Intelligence service; Secret service PDF IMAGES
24-27	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Schenectady PDF IMAGES
26	Personal and otherwise/Article The Atlantic Monthly By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Atlantic Monthly (American periodical); Centennial celebrations, etc. PDF IMAGES
29-34	Article The civil defense fiasco By Robert Moses SEE ALSO: Atomic bomb; Civil defense; Evacuation of civilians; Nuclear bomb shelters; Safety measures PDF IMAGES
35-39	Article The Huddleston Jazz Band By Trevor Huddleston SEE ALSO: Anglican Communion; Apartheid; Career as Anglican monk in South Africa; Jazz musicians; South Africa; Huddleston, Trevor PDF IMAGES
40-45	Article Inside Samarkand and other unlikely places By John Gunther SEE ALSO: Asia, Central; Kazakstan; 1945-1991; Uzbekistan PDF IMAGES
45	Article Left hand bites right hand SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Career as chairman of Sperry Rand Corporation; Defense contracts; MacArthur, Douglas; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
46-49	Article The variety of American cities By David Cort SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Food prices; Popular culture; Regional disparities; Retail trade PDF IMAGES
49	Poem All souls By May Sarton PDF IMAGES
50-55	Article The seal that couldn't swim By Alexis Ladas SEE ALSO: Aegean Sea; Human-animal relationships; Naval operations; Seals (Animals) PDF IMAGES
56-59	Article What happened to the farm bloc? By Carroll Kilpatrick SEE ALSO: Agriculture and state; 1953-1961; Rural families; Voting research PDF IMAGES
59	Poem The star in the hills By William Stafford PDF IMAGES
60-65	Fiction Flight of the Circle Heart: A story By William Eastlake PDF IMAGES
66-72	Article The cardinal who “co-exists” By Delia Kuhn and Ferdinand Kuhn SEE ALSO: Cardinals; Career as cardinal of Poland; Career as Polish leader; Catholic Church; Church and social problems; Communism and Christianity; 1945-1980; Poland; Wyszynski, Stefan; Gomulka, Wladyslaw PDF IMAGES
72	Poem Rimer, Penna. By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
73-77	Article Where's everybody? By Arthur Charles Clarke SEE ALSO: Exploration; Human beings; Life on other planets; Origin; Outer space; Space flight PDF IMAGES
78-79	Article “O lovely O most charming pug” By David Ogilvy SEE ALSO: Biography; Child authors; Friends and associates; Fleming, Marjory; Scottish poetry; Scott, Walter, Sir PDF IMAGES
80-82	After hours/Article Letter about Iceland By Agnes Rogers SEE ALSO: Iceland PDF IMAGES
81	Advertising Supplement Man and best friend breaking law SEE ALSO: Leun, A. Vincent; American Traditions Project; Bulgarians; Career as Bethlehem Steel executive; Competitions; Dog owners; Welkoff, George; Hellertown; Imprisonment; Legal status, laws, etc.; Refugees, Political PDF IMAGES
82-83	After hours/Article Jumping Juilliard By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Jazz musicians PDF IMAGES
84-95	The new books/Review Public and private By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A bit off the map (Book); Wilson, Angus; Atlas shrugged (Book); Rand, Ayn; Candles in the sun (Book); West, Rebecca, Dame; Friedman, Elizebeth; Sagan, Françoise; Braine, John; Lutyens, Emily, Lady; Return to the Islands: life and legends in the Gilberts (Book); Room at the top (Book); Grimble, Arthur Francis, Sir; The court and the castle (Book); The Shakespearean ciphers examined (Book); Those without shadows (Book); Friedman, William F. (William Frederick) PDF IMAGES
96-99	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: America with love (Book); American panorama (Book); Brand, Christianna; Walker, David Harry; Domestic relations (Book); Love, Edmund G.; Larrabee, Eric; O'Connor, Frank; Get away from me with those Christmas gifts and other reactions (Book); McNulty, John; Winsor, Kathleen; Ross, Nancy Wilson; Palmer, R.R. (Robert Roswell); Rand McNally atlas of world history (Book); Sandy was a soldier's boy (Book); Greenwald, Sheila; Subways are for sleeping (Book); Wright, Sylvia; The Mendelman fire and other stories (Book); The return of Lady Brace (Book); The three-cornered halo (Book); The world of John McNulty (Book); Mankowitz, Wolf PDF IMAGES
99	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Anatomy of a murder (Book); Hough, Henry Beetle; Traver, Robert; Sharks and little fish (Book); The New England story (Book); Ott, Wolfgang PDF IMAGES
100-104	The new recordings/Review Uses of the spoken word By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Moss, Arnold; Bloom, Claire; Anderson, Judith, Dame; Daiches, David; Marshall, E.G.; Allen, Gay Wilson; Stein, Gertrude; Gertrude Stein reads from her works (Sound recording); Joyce, James; Mason, James; Leaves of Grass centennial, Library of Congress, 1955 (Sound recording); Frankenberg, Lloyd; Van Doren, Mark; Performances; Slosson, Preston; McKenna, Siobhán; Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns); T.S. Eliot reads his Four quartets (Sound recording); The uses of history. Our heritage of history (Sound recording); Ulysses—soliloquies of Molly and Leopold Bloom (Sound recording); Whitman, Walt PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Complete sonnets of William Shakespeare (Sound recording); Emerson, Edward Waldo; Just so stories (Sound recording); Stevenson, Robert Louis; Kipling, Rudyard; Crane, Stephen; The basic writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Sound recording); The red badge of courage (Sound recording); The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Sound recording); Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES