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February 1958

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Roy McKie SEE ALSO: Consumers PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Christmas list, from December 1957: Letter By Otto B. Kiehl Letter By Karl W. Onthank On Freud on football, from December 1957: Letter By Kathleen Sproul On Subversion in Dallas, from December 1957: Letter By Otto B. Kiehl Letter By Karl W. Onthank On For year-end toasts to 1957, from December 1957: Letter By Kathleen Sproul PDF IMAGES
10-18	The editor's easy chair/Article Who's in charge here? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. vice president; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Health; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Succession PDF IMAGES
20-23	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Bound for the eternal showers? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Boredom; Television advertising PDF IMAGES
22	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
25-31	Article What is advertising good for? By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Advertising campaigns; Consumer behavior PDF IMAGES
32-33	Article Our dumb colleagues By Arthur Charles Clarke SEE ALSO: Animal training; Chimpanzees; Human-animal relationships; Training PDF IMAGES
34-41	Article A chance to withdraw our troops in Europe (the first of two articles) By George Frost Kennan SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Cold War; Defenses; Europe, Eastern; Germany (West); Limited war; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Strategic aspects; Tactical nuclear weapons PDF IMAGES
42-48	Article What two lawyers are doing to Hollywood By Murray Teigh Bloom SEE ALSO: Krim, Arthur B.; Career in motion picture industry; Independent filmmakers; Motion picture industry; Benjamin, Robert S. PDF IMAGES
48	Article Rah! SEE ALSO: Curricula; Football; High schools; School sports PDF IMAGES
49-54	Article How to choose a college, if any By John William Gardner SEE ALSO: College choice; High school students PDF IMAGES
53	Article Not with a bang . . . By William James SEE ALSO: End of the world PDF IMAGES
54	Poem And I say the hell with it By Philene Hammer PDF IMAGES
55-59	Fiction An old boy who made violins By Ben Maddow PDF IMAGES
60-63	Article Antibiotics: Too much of a good thing? By Vernon Knight SEE ALSO: Drugs; Physician and patient; Testing PDF IMAGES
63	Article Too late now SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Foreign public opinion, English; Representative government and representation PDF IMAGES
64-67	Article The hillbillies invade Chicago By Albert N. Votaw SEE ALSO: Chicago (Ill.); Migration, Internal; Mountain whites (Southern States) PDF IMAGES
68-71	Poem Florence: At the Villa Jernyngham By Osbert Sitwell PDF IMAGES
72-79	Article The voyage of the Lucky Dragon (part III) By Ralph Eugene Lapp SEE ALSO: Bikini Atoll; Fishers; Fukuryu Maru (Ship); Government policy; Kimura, Kenjiro; Knowledge—Radioactivity; Marshall Islands; Nuclear energy; Nuclear weapons; Physiological effect; Radiation; Testing PDF IMAGES
80-81	After hours/Article That lived-in look By James Roswell Gallagher SEE ALSO: Levittown; Levittown (New York); Suburban life PDF IMAGES
81-82	After hours/Article Lively (for once) art By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Jazz; Jazz musicians; Houseman, John; Live television programs; 1951-1960; The sound of jazz (Television program) PDF IMAGES
83-89	The new books/Review Not New York By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Hayes, Alfred; Anatomy of a murder (Book); Epitaph for Dixie (Book); First love and other early sorrows (Book); King, Francis Henry; Brodkey, Harold; Ashmore, Harry S.; Russcol, Herbert; Home from the hill (Book); Jones, James; Kilometre 95 (Book); Banai, Margalit; My face for the world to see (Book); Lagerkvist, Pär; Traver, Robert; Some came running (Book); The man on the rock (Book); The sibyl (Book); Humphrey, William PDF IMAGES
89-91	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A lesson in love (Book); Alarms and diversions (Book); And the price is right: the R.H. Macy story (Book); Mayer, Arthur; Drawn from memory (Book); Mayo, Eleanor; Shepard, Ernest H.(Ernest Howard); Forever strangers (Book); Williams, Gluyas; Thurber, James; Kampong (Book); Harriman, Margaret Case; Creal, Margaret; Griffith, Richard; Hardy, Ronald; The Gluyas Williams gallery (Book); The movies (Book) PDF IMAGES
91	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Seton, Anya; Smith, Betty; Biography; Morros, Boris; Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy); Rowan, Carl Thomas; Ciske the rat (Book); Luce, Clare Boothe; Spring, Howard; Jackie Robinson (Book); Jephta and his daughter (Book); Weidman, Jerome; Feuchtwanger, Lion; Little, Lou; Maggie now (Book); Memoirs (Book); Farson, Negley; Wellman, Paul Iselin; Bakker, Piet; Ride the red earth (Book); The conscience of the rich (Book); The dream of my life (Book); The enemy camp (Book); The lost world of the Caucasus (Book); The Winthrop woman (Book); Time and the hour (Book) PDF IMAGES
92-96	The new recordings/Review Angel By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bach: Sonata #2 in A; Sonata #3 in E for violin and harpsichord (Sound recording); Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (Sound recording); Boston Symphony; Munch, Charles; Chicago Symphony; Debussy, Claude; Ritchard, Cyril; Debussy: Iberia; Prelude to the “Afternoon of a Faun” (Sound recording); Debussy: La Mer (Sound recording); Detroit Symphony; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Toch, Ernst; Ormandy, Eugene; Liszt, Franz; Reiner, Fritz; Berlioz, Hector; Stravinsky, Igor; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Liszt: Mephisto waltz (Sound recording); Music for hi-fi bugs (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Malko, Nicolai; Paray, Paul; Performances; Rugulo, Pete; Philadelphia Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra of London; Monteux, Pierre; Pittsburgh Symphony; Prokofieff: Peter and the wolf (Sound recording); Prokofieff: Symphony #7 (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Stravinsky: The rite of spring (Sound recording); Toch: Symphony #3 (1955) (Sound recording); Steinberg, William PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Goehr, Alexander; Dvorák, Antonín; Fiedler, Arthur; Bach: Concerto in D minor for two violins (Sound recording); Bamberger; Beethoven: Piano concerto #4 (Sound recording); Bizet: Carmen suite; L'Arlésienne suite #1 (Sound recording); Boston Pops Orchestra; Brahms: Alto rhapsody; Tragic overture (Sound recording); Raksin, David; Detroit Symphony; Dvorák: Serenade (Sound recording); Elgar, Edward; Elgar: Enigma variations (Sound recording); Bizet, Georges; Hallé Orchestra; Hollywood Bowl Symphony; Ibert: Divertissement (Sound recording); Ibert, Jacques; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Brahms, Johannes; Krips, Josef; Los Angeles Woodwinds; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Ravel, Maurice; Monk's music (Sound recording); Paray, Paul; Ravel: Bolero; Capriccio espagnol (Sound recording); Barbirolli, John, Sir; Symphony of the Air; Monk, Thelonious PDF IMAGES