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December 1957

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Ben Shahn SEE ALSO: Fish and Other Aquatic Life; South Pacific Ocean PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Wanted, from October 1957: Letter By Patrick J. Henry Letter By Estelle Mendelsohn Letter By Herbert A. Carlborg On Hostel on a hill, from October 1957: Letter By Henry M. Pachter PDF IMAGES
12-16	The editor's easy chair/Article Christmas list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Advertising, Outdoor; Amateur arts; Austria; Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes); Breweries; California, Southern; Career in philanthropy; Cooks; Dallas; Danbury; Elections, 1956; Labor leaders; Litter (Trash); Marriage; Montañez, Marta; Open spaces; Casals, Pablo; Political corruption; Prison psychology; Public relations firms; Racketeering; Salzburg; United States. Congress. Senate; Women philanthropists PDF IMAGES
16-18	The editor's easy chair/Article Freud on football By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Football; Parodies, imitations, etc.; Freud, Sigmund; Ferril, Thomas Hornsby; Views on football—Humor PDF IMAGES Advertising Supplement Subversion in Dallas SEE ALSO: American Traditions Project; Anti-communist movements; Shahn, Ben; Blacklisting of authors; Competitions; Dallas; National pastime (Painting) PDF IMAGES
18	The editor's easy chair/Article For year-end toasts to 1957 By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cocktails; Toasts PDF IMAGES [Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
19-22	Advertising Supplement One viewpoint on corporate aid to education SEE ALSO: General Electric; Industry and education; Social responsibility of business PDF IMAGES
23-25	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Radioactive fallout; Lapp, Ralph Eugene; South Pacific Ocean; Voyage of the Lucky Dragon (Book) PDF IMAGES
27-36	Article The voyage of the Lucky Dragon (part I) By Ralph Eugene Lapp SEE ALSO: Bikini Atoll; Fishers; Fukuryu Maru (Ship); Marshall Islands; Nuclear weapons; Physiological effect; Radiation; Radioactive fallout; South Pacific Ocean; Testing PDF IMAGES
37-41	Article Porgy's goat By Dorothy Heyward SEE ALSO: Animals as represented on the stage; Davis, Blevins; Heyward, Dorothy; Heyward, DuBose; Goats; Porgy and Bess (Book); Porgy and Bess (Motion picture); Porgy and Bess (Play); Breen, Robert S.; Goldwyn, Samuel PDF IMAGES
42-49	Article Power struggle on the Canadian border By Richard L. (Richard Lewis) Neuberger SEE ALSO: Columbia River; Columbia River Valley; Hydroelectric power plants; 1953-1961; Northwest, Pacific; Power utilization; Water resources development PDF IMAGES
50-54	Article Vermont: Where are all those Yankees? By Miriam Chapin SEE ALSO: Rural development; Sociological aspects; Vacation homes; Vermonters PDF IMAGES
55-61	Article Divide and rue it in the Middle East By Charlton Ogburn SEE ALSO: Arms race; Eisenhower doctrine; The Middle East; World politics PDF IMAGES
60	Article Drinks on the house? SEE ALSO: Domestics; Bedford, John Robert Russell, Duke of; Homes and haunts PDF IMAGES
62-65	Article Glaucoma: The sinister halo By James Robbins Miller SEE ALSO: Diagnosis; Surgery PDF IMAGES
65	Poem Fable for flipped lid By George Starbuck PDF IMAGES
66-68	Article Your child can sing By Elsa B. Ruedebush SEE ALSO: Instruction and study; Juvenile; Singing; Singing teachers PDF IMAGES
69-76	Fiction House of many rooms: A story By Robin White PDF IMAGES
78-79	After hours/Article Death deferred By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in radio journalism; Culligan, Matthew J.; National Broadcasting Company; Radio journalism; Radio programs; Rating PDF IMAGES
79-81	After hours/Article Ben Shahn By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Shahn, Ben; Illustrators; Magazine illustration; The shape of content (Book) PDF IMAGES
81	After hours/Article How pied is the piper? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Animal sounds; Control; Echoes of the Pied Pipers of Hamlim (Sound recording); Rats; Recording and reproducing; Morrill, William C. PDF IMAGES
82-94	The new books/Review Bernard Baruch, Texas, and some lesser subjects By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A death in the family (Book); Baruch: my own story (Book); Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes); Hibbert, Christopher; Fuermann, George; Fast, Howard; Dinesen, Isak; Agee, James; Last tales (Book); Make my bed (Book); Coit, Margaret L.; Mr. Baruch (Book); Burt, Nathaniel; Pemberton, Ltd. (Book); Torrès, Tereska; The dangerous games (Book); The naked god: the writer and the Communist Party (Book); The reluctant empire (Book); The road to Tyburn (Book); Glyn, Anthony, Sir, bart. PDF IMAGES
94-98	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A measure of love (Book); A treasury of sports cartoons (Book); Durant, Alice K. Rand; Simon, André L.; Antarctic night (Book); Gordon, Caroline; Weston, Christine; Haworth, David; Gylmer, Floyd; How to read a novel (Book); Origo, Iris; Bursey, Jack; Durant, John; Lariar, Lawrence; Nash, Linell; Nickles, Marione R. (Marione Reinhard); Merry England, etc (Book); My friends the huskies (Book); Nash, Ogden; “One moment, Sir!” (Book); Pictorial history of the American circus (Book); Boulle, Pierre; Dovers, Robert; Searle, Ronald; Sherlock Holmes (Book); Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, Sir; Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir; “Stop, Miss!” (Book); The Christmas that almost wasn't (Book); The face of the world (Book); The noble grapes and the great wines of France (Book); The sledge patrol (Book); The test (Book); The wise children (Book); Treasury of foreign cars, old and new (Book); Darrow, Whitney PDF IMAGES
98	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A summer place (Book); Gardner, Erle Stanley; Longstreet, Ethel; From the terrace (Book); O'Hara, John; Purely academic (Book); Wilson, Sloan; Longstreet, Stephen; Barr, Stringfellow; The case of the long-legged models (Book); The man of Montmartre (Book) PDF IMAGES
99-104	The new recordings/Review Stereo—disc and tape By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Nobel, Felix de; Liszt, Franz; Cziffra, Georges; Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Szigeti, Joseph; Liszt: Piano works (Sound recording); Magnetic recorders and recording; Dupré, Marcel; Marcel Dupré plays Mozart and Bach (Sound recording); Ravel, Maurice; Netherlands Chamber Choir; Palestrina: Missa brevis; Missa ad fugam (Sound recording); Hindemith, Paul; Performances; Ravel: Sonata. Hindemith: Sonata #3. Prokofieff: Sonata for violin solo, op. 115; Five melodies, op. 35a (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Stereophonic sound systems; Bussotti, Sylvano; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Beethoven: Works for cello and piano (Sound recording); Boston Symphony Orchestra; Leinsdorf, Erich; Wolf, Hugo; Hugo Wolf lieder (Sound recording); Weill, Kurt; Kurt Weill's “Johnny Johnson” (Sound recording); Beethoven, Ludwig van; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Philharmonic Symphony of London; Matlowsky, Samuel; Tchaikovsky: Serenade for strings (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES