Harper's Magazine: April 1958

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April 1958

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Burt Goldblatt SEE ALSO: Guitarists; Jazz musicians PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On Who's in charge here?, from February 1958: Letter By Mrs. G.A. Webber Letter By J.J. Cobb Letter By Marga E. Davidson Letter By J.L. Humbert Letter By P. Thoren Letter By M.L. Winton On Lively (for once) art, from February 1958: Letter By Jane Springman PDF IMAGES
12-19	The easy chair/Article A combat veteran sounds off By E.B. Crabill SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Defenses; Forecasting; Limited war; Operational readiness; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
18	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
20-23	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Pointers for spies By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Security classification (Government documents) PDF IMAGES Personal and otherwise/Notice Personal and otherwise By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in writing “Jazz notes”; Larrabee, Eric; “Jazz notes” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES
25-32	Article What's happening to jazz By Nat Hentoff SEE ALSO: Concert tours; Jazz; Jazz audiences; Jazz musicians; 1951-1960 PDF IMAGES
33	Article The work cure for women By Lorna Jean King SEE ALSO: Housekeeping; Physician and patient PDF IMAGES
34-39	Article Four steps to halt the slump—and avoid another By Ross M. Robertson SEE ALSO: Construction industry; Deficit financing; 1945-1960; Recessions; United States. Council of Economic Advisers PDF IMAGES
38	Poem Platform before the castle By Anne Goodwin Winslow PDF IMAGES
40-45	Article Country doctors catch up By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Group medical practice; Medicine, Rural; Physicians (General practice); Practice; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
46-53	Article CIA: Who watches the watchman? By Warren Unna SEE ALSO: Dulles, Allen Welsh; Career as CIA director; Career as U.S. senator; Legislative oversight; Mansfield, Mike; 1953-1961; National security; Powers and duties; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
53	Article The star from four to five By Jackie Coogan SEE ALSO: Child actors; Family; Coogan, Jackie PDF IMAGES
54-57	Article Standing room only By Arthur Charles Clarke SEE ALSO: Homosexuality; Infanticide; Overpopulation; Sterilization (Birth control) PDF IMAGES
57	Poem Return of the native (Donegal, April 1957) By James Rorty PDF IMAGES
58-64	Article New discoveries about the cosmos: Stars forming, burning, and dying (part II) By George W. (George William) Gray SEE ALSO: Evolution; Interstellar hydrogen; Origin; Solar system; Sun PDF IMAGES
65-68	Fiction Happy marriage: A story By Joyce Cary PDF IMAGES
69-72	Article The English disease By Norman Ian MacKenzie PDF IMAGES
72	Article Ars longa, vita brevis SEE ALSO: Art, Modern; Exhibitions PDF IMAGES
73-78	Article Math even parents can understand By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Mathematical ability; Mathematics; Parent participation PDF IMAGES
78	Article Turn about is fair play By William Stafford SEE ALSO: College sports; Curricula; English teachers; Football; Talented students PDF IMAGES
80-82	After hours/Article A day with “Today” By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Television broadcasting; Today (Television program) PDF IMAGES
82-83	After hours/Article If you're going to Paris By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cookery, French; Restaurants; The food of France (Book); Root, Waverley Lewis PDF IMAGES
83	After hours/Article Critique By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Exhibitions; Exhibitions—Humor; Humor; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York); Churchill, Winston, Sir PDF IMAGES
84-93	The new books/Review Economic man and the rest of us By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Camus, Albert; Bitter lemons (Book); Jacobson, Dan; Economics; Exile and the kingdom (Book); Expense account (Book); Image of a society (Book); Morgan, Joe; Brooks, John; Hartley, L.P. (Leslie Poles); Durrell, Lawrence; Madison Avenue, U.S.A. (Book); Mayer, Martin; De Vries, Peter; Narayan, R.K.; Fuller, Roy Broadbent; The guide (Book); The hireling (Book); The Mackerel Plaza (Book); The man who broke things (Book); The price of diamonds (Book) PDF IMAGES
94-99	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A joy of gardening (Book); Hill, Amelia Leavitt; America's garden book (Book); Perry, Frances; Gardens and grounds that take care of themselves (Book); MacInnes, Helen; Popper, Hermine I.; Horticultural literature; Bush-Brown, James; Howland, Joseph E.; Bush-Brown, Louise Carter; Taylor, Norman; North from Rome (Book); Godden, Rumer; The greengage summer (Book); The guide to garden flowers (Book); The House Beautiful book of gardens and outdoor living (Book); The woman gardener (Book); Sackville-West, V. (Victoria) PDF IMAGES
99	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A field guide to trees and shrubs (Book); Amaryllis manual (Book); American rose annual (Book); Rutt, Anna H. (Anna Hong); Steffek, Edwin Francis; Abramson, Frank H.; Petrides, George A.; Symonds, George Wellington Dillingham; Traub, Hamilton Paul; Squires, Mabel; Pruning made easy: simple steps to successful pruning (Book); Chelminski, Stephen V.; The art of drying plants (Book); The art of foliage and flower arrangement (Book); The tree identification book (Book) PDF IMAGES
100-102	The new recordings/Review The Philharmonic previews By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Galli-Curci, Amelita; Career in music; Chopin: Mazurkas (complete) (Sound recording); Cleveland Orchestra; Chopin, Frédéric; Schubert, Franz; Szell, George; Sammartini, Giovanni Battista; Bernstein, Leonard; New York Philharmonic; Jenkins, Newell; Magaloff, Nikita; Performances; Sammartini: Symphony in A; Symphony for 2 horns & strings in A; Symphony for 2 trumpets & strings in G; Sinfonia dell'Accademia in C (Sound recording); Schubert: Symphony #7 in C (Sound recording); The art of Galli-Curci (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bruckner, Anton; Bavarian Radio Symphony; Beethoven: Symphony #5. Schubert: “Unfinished” symphony (Sound recording); Berlin Philharmonic; Bruckner: Symphony #4 (“Romantic”); Symphony #7 (Original versions) (Sound recording); Saint-Saëns, Camille; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Grieg, Edvard; Jochum, Eugen; Prohaska, Felix; Schubert, Franz; Gesualdo: Madrigals and sacred music (Book); Grieg: Lyric pieces, books 5 and 6 (Sound recording); Stokowski, Leopold; Beethoven, Ludwig van; New York Philharmonic; Wagner, Richard; Craft, Robert; Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre; Phaeton; Le Rouet d'Omphale; La Jeunesse d'Hercule (Sound recording); Solti, Georg, Sir; Stokowski—Landmarks of a distinguished career (Sound recording); Vienna Philharmonia; Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Wagner: Die Walkuere, act III (complete); “Siegmund! Sieh' auf mich!” act II (Sound recording); Gesualdo, Carlo, principe di Venosa PDF IMAGES