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January 1958

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Merle Shore SEE ALSO: Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.); Pedestrians; San Francisco PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On Inside Samarkand and other unlikely places, from November 1957: Letter By Herbert L. Gross On The star in the hills, from November 1957: Letter By Lulie Hard McKinley On Intelligence services, from November 1957: Letter By Gordon N. Ray On Public and private, from November 1957: Letter By Murray N. Rothbard Letter By Paul Pickrel PDF IMAGES
12-20	The editor's easy chair/Article Conversation at midnight: Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Austria; Europe, Western; Foreign public opinion, European; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
18	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
21-23	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: The new San Franciscans By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Beat generation; Biography; Miller, Henry; Kerouac, Jack; Rexroth, Kenneth; On the road (Book); San Francisco PDF IMAGES
25-30	Article Nixon: What kind of President? By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career in politics; 1953-1961; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Vice-Presidents PDF IMAGES
29	Article Hounds across the sea SEE ALSO: Fox hunting; Foxhounds PDF IMAGES
31-37	Fiction Waldo: A story By Aubrey Goodman PDF IMAGES
38-44	Article San Francisco: New serpents in Eden By Bruce Bliven SEE ALSO: California, Northern; Cities and towns; Commuters; Growth; San Francisco; San Francisco (Calif.) PDF IMAGES
44	Article Hidden treasures in darkest Hoboken By David Eli Lilienthal SEE ALSO: Sengier, Edgar; Hoboken; Knowledge—Uranium industry; Transportation; Uranium PDF IMAGES
45-47	Article The man in the blue suede shoes By James Baxter and Annette Kar Baxter SEE ALSO: Career as rock musician; Presley, Elvis; Rock music; Rock musicians; To 1961 PDF IMAGES
47	Poem A refusal to mourn, etc. By Lloyd Frankenberg PDF IMAGES
48-55	Article The voyage of the Lucky Dragon (part II) By Ralph Eugene Lapp SEE ALSO: Bikini Atoll; Fishers; Foreign public opinion, Japanese; Fukuryu Maru (Ship); International cooperation; Marshall Islands; Nuclear weapons; Physiological effect; Public health; Radiation; Radioactive contamination of food; Radioactive fallout; Reporters and reporting; South Pacific Ocean; Testing PDF IMAGES
56-61	Article The case of the furious children By Alan L. Otten and Charles B. Seib SEE ALSO: Adolescent psychotherapy; Bethesda; Career in adolescent psychotherapy; Conduct disorders in adolescence; Redl, Fritz; Residential treatment PDF IMAGES
61	Poem Song By Emilie Bix Buchwald PDF IMAGES
62-63	Illustration Intercontinental By Tomi Ungerer SEE ALSO: Decoration PDF IMAGES
64-70	Article The iron corset on Britain's spirit By Martin Burgess Green SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Class consciousness; Literature and society; Snobs and snobbishness PDF IMAGES
71-78	Article Families on wheels By Alvin Louis Schorr SEE ALSO: Public welfare; Regional disparities; Social participation PDF IMAGES
79-80	After hours/Article One way to get elected By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Wheeler, Archer C.; Bridgeport; Bridgeport (Conn.); Career as Bridgeport (Conn.) mayor; Conservation and restoration; Elections; Estate; Gothic revival (Architecture); Historic buildings; McLevy, Jasper; Wheeler House (Bridgeport, Conn.) PDF IMAGES
80-83	After hours/Article A blow for liberty By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Liquor laws PDF IMAGES
84-90	The new books/Review America's secular religion By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A fourth of a nation (Book); A Maine village (Book); Gregg, Alan; American education in the twentieth century (Book); Freeman, Andrew A.; Marbut, Ann; Brainpower quest (Book); Corner boy (Book); For future doctors (Book); Simmons, Herbert; Kandel, I.L. (Isaac Leon); Adler, Irving; Beam, Lura; Woodring, Paul; The tarnished tower (Book); What we want of our schools (Book) PDF IMAGES
90-92	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A testament (Book); Eliot, Alexander; Hentzen, Alfred; Amelie and Pierre (Book); Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff; Artists' books; Tarkington, Booth; Kuhn, Charles Harris; Fairbairn, Douglas; Withers, E.L.; Carli, Enzo; Wright, Frank Lloyd; German art of the twentieth century (Book); German expressionism and abstract art (Book); Roethal, Hans Konrad; Troyat, Henri; Rosenberg, Jakob; Beecroft, John; Garland, Madge; Ross, Marvin (Marvin Chauncey); Modern German painting (Book); Sienese painting (Book); The changing face of beauty (Book); The gentleman from Indianapolis: a treasury of Booth Tarkington (Book); The house on the beach (Book); The joy train (Book); The life of Christ in masterpieces of art and the words of the New Testament (Book); Three hundred years of American painting (Book); Haftmann, Werner; Lieberman, William Slattery PDF IMAGES
92	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A joy of gardening (Book); A soldier with the Arabs (Book); Doctor in love (Book); Salomonsen, Finn; Musmanno, Michael Angelo; Freuchen, Peter; Gordon, Richard; Glubb, John Bagot, Sir; The Arctic year (Book); Sackville-West, V. (Victoria); Verdict! The adventures of the young lawyer in the brown suit (Book) PDF IMAGES
94-96	The new recordings/Review Generations of changing taste By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Winograd, Arthur; Beethoven: Septet, op. 20 (Sound recording); Beethoven: Symphony #3 (“Eroica”) (Sound recording); Cleveland Orchestra; Milhaud, Darius; Detroit Symphony; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Dukas: Sorcerer's apprentice. Weinberger: Polka and fugue. Liszt: Les Preludes. Strauss: Dance of the seven veils (Sound recording); Liszt, Franz; Schubert, Franz; Szell, George; Haydn: Symphony #44 (“Trauer Symphonie”); Symphony #49 (“La Passione”) (Sound recording); Haydn: Symphony #45 (“Farewell”); Symphony #82 (“The Bear”) (Sound recording); Haydn: Symphony #96. Mozart: Symphony #35 (“Haffner”) (Sound recording); Berlioz, Hector; Scherchen, Hermann; Weinberger, Jaromír; Haydn, Joseph; Barzin, Leon; Les Malheurs d'Orphée (1924) (Sound recording); Beethoven, Ludwig van; Milhaud: Le Pauvre matelot (1926) (Sound recording); Mozart: Symphony #35 (“Haffner”). Berlioz: Waverley overture; Three excerpts from “The Damnation of Faust” (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Orchestre du Theatre National de l'opera; Dukas, Paul; Paray, Paul; Philharmonia Orchestra of Hamburg; Strauss, Richard; Reinhardt, Rolf; Schubert: The death of Lazarus (Sound recording); Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Lomax, Alan; Beethoven: Diabelli variations, op. 120 (Sound recording); Spassky, Boris Vasilyevich; Franck, César; Milhaud, Darius; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Franck: Pièce héroïque; Three chorales (Sound recording); Puccini, Giacomo; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Mendelssohn: Cello sonata in D. Strauss: Cello sonáta in F (Sound recording); Philharmonia Orchestra; Prokofieff: Cello concerto. Milhaud: Cello concerto #1 (Sound recording); Puccini: La Bohème (Sound recording); Strauss, Richard; Selections from the sacred pontifical liturgy of the Russian Orthodox Church (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Susskind, Walter PDF IMAGES