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May 1958

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Alfred Bendiner SEE ALSO: Architects; Wright, Frank Lloyd; Portraits PDF IMAGES
4-11	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from March 1958: Letter By Clarence B. Carlsen Letter By Ken Biskit On Forecast for a cheerful springtime, from March 1958: Letter By Robert H. Simmons Letter By P.J. Horgan Letter By Homer Joseph Dodge On Gold and glory, from March 1958: Letter By Alexander Liel Letter By Rollin Jensen PDF IMAGES
14-20	The editor's easy chair/Article How to keep Congress honest By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Conflict of interests; Corrupt practices; Ethics; Journalistic ethics; Political ethics; United States. Congress; United States. Federal Communications Commission PDF IMAGES
21-23	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: The uncertainty principle By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Classical education PDF IMAGES
22	Personal and otherwise/Notice Personal and otherwise By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as Harper's Washington correspondent; Legislative reporting; White, William Smith PDF IMAGES
25-29	Article A scientist's case for the classics By Werner Heisenberg SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Classical education; Critical thinking in children; Philosophy; Physicists; Physics; Heisenberg, Werner PDF IMAGES
30-35	Article How Frank Lloyd Wright got his medal By Alfred Bendiner SEE ALSO: After-dinner speeches; Architects; Awards; Wright, Frank Lloyd PDF IMAGES
36-45	Article The guns at Falaise Gap By Richard B. McAdoo SEE ALSO: Falaise Gap, Battle of, 1944; Personal narratives, American PDF IMAGES Collection The guns at Falaise Gap PDF IMAGES
45	Article The great killing ground By Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower SEE ALSO: Falaise Gap, Battle of, 1944 PDF IMAGES
46-50	Article Why Canadians are turning anti-American By Bruce Hutchison SEE ALSO: Anti-Americanism; 1953-1961; National characteristics, Canadian PDF IMAGES
50	Poem The academic overture By Richmond Alexander Lattimore PDF IMAGES
51-56	Article Hill climbing by boat By Joyce Warren SEE ALSO: Canal-boats; Inland water transportation; Passenger traffic; Vacations PDF IMAGES
57-59	Article Lament for Minnesota: One hundred years of pillage By Leona Train Rienow SEE ALSO: Deforestation; Iron mines and mining; Logging; Minnesota PDF IMAGES
58	Poem Exchange By Miriam Waddington PDF IMAGES
60-67	Fiction The guy in Ward 4: A story By Leo Calvin Rosten PDF IMAGES
68-70	Article Common sense about alimony By Samuel H. Hofstadter and Arthur Herzog SEE ALSO: Alimony PDF IMAGES
70	Article So that's what's been holding us back SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Education, Elementary; Progressive education PDF IMAGES
71-76	Article Tom Wolfe writes a play By Philip W. Barber SEE ALSO: Biography; Cambridge; Career as drama professor; College and school drama, American; Death and burial; Baker, George Pierce; Harvard University; Raisbeck, Kenneth; Novelists, American; Wolfe, Thomas PDF IMAGES
77-78	After hours/Article Get in there and lens! By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Equipment and supplies; Photo PDF IMAGES
78-79	After hours/Article Damn scandal By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Foreign films; Motion picture theaters; Pather panchali (Motion picture); Ray, Satyajit PDF IMAGES After hours/Poem The menagerie at Versailles in 1775 (from a notebook kept by Dr. Samuel Johnson) By Samuel Johnson PDF IMAGES
79	After hours/Article A poet, sir? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Diaries; Updike, John; Johnson, Samuel; The carpentered hen and other creatures (Book) PDF IMAGES
80-91	The new books/Review Numbers and enigmas By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A very far country (Book); Campbell, Alexander; Lall, Arthur S. (Arthur Samuel); Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav); Dickens, Charles; Declaration (Book); Dickens at work (Book); Almadingen, E.M.; Moraes, F.R. (Francis Robert); Happy as Larry (Book); Inside Russia today (Book); Butt, John Everett; Gunther, John; Wain, John; Tillotson, Kathleen Mary; Seasons of Jupiter (Book); The contenders (Book); The heart of India (Book); The new Oxford illustrated Dickens (Book); The undiscovered self (Book); Hinde, Thomas; Maschler, Tom; Yonder one world (Book) PDF IMAGES
91-94	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Elias, Albert; Karmel, Alex; Robinson, Alice M.; Beukenkamp, Cornelius; Murphy, Dennis; Bixby, F. Lovell; Fortunate strangers (Book); Hébard, Frédérique; Mayer, Jane; Shattuck, Katharine; McCorkle, Lloyd W.; Rittwagen, M. (Marjorie); Cowley, Malcolm; Mary Ann (Book); Sins of their fathers (Book); The Highfields story (Book); The month of September (Book); The narrowest circle (Book); The sergeant (Book); The unbelonging (Book); The year of the white trees (Book); Writers at work: the Paris Review interviews (Book) PDF IMAGES
94	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Afternoon of an author (Book); All aces: a Nero Wolfe omnibus (Book); Mizener, Arthur; Rollo, Charles; Four existentialist theologians: a reader from the work of Jacques Maritain, Nicholas Berdyaev, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich (Book); From the N.R.F (Book); O'Brien, Justin; Lawyer's leisure (Book); Stout, Rex; Warren, Robert Penn; Selected essays (Book); The world of Evelyn Waugh (Book); Herbert, Will; Davenport, William PDF IMAGES
95-96	The new recordings/Review Jazz with a future By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Borovsky, Alexander; Dvorák, Antonín; Bach: Two- and three-part inventions (Sound recording); Bach: Unaccompanied sonata #1 in G minor; Sonata #4 in D minor (with Chaconne) (Sound recording); Bavaria State Orchestra; Beethoven: Fidelio (Sound recording); Boston Symphony; Career in writing “Jazz notes”; Munch, Charles; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Dvorák: Symphony #2 in D minor (Sound recording); Elgar, Edward; Elgar: “Enigma” variations. Purcell-Barbirolli: Suite for strings, winds (Sound recording); Larrabee, Eric; Bloch, Ernest; Fricsay, Ferenc; Gesualdo: Madrigals and sacred music (Sound recording); Piatigorsky, Gregor; Hallé Orchestra; Purcell, Henry; Jazz; “Jazz notes” (Harper's); Bach, Johann Sebastian; Beethoven, Ludwig van; 1951-1960; New York Philharmonic; Performances; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Craft, Robert; Ricci, Ruggiero; Barbirolli, John, Sir; Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 (“Pathetique”) (Sound recording); Walton: Cello concerto (1956). Bloch: Schelomo (1916) (Sound recording); Walton, William; Gesualdo, Carlo, principe di Venosa PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: A dog's life (Sound recording); Aliberti; Chamber Jazz Sextet; Moore, Douglas; Grieg, Edvard; Ormandy, Eugene; Gilbert & Sullivan: The gondoliers (Sound recording); Glyndebourne Festival Chorus; Grieg: Peer Gynt suite #1; Symphonic dances; Elegiac melodies (Sound recording); Hallé Orchestra; Patchen, Kenneth; Kenneth Patchen reads his poetry with the Chamber Jazz Sextet (Sound recording); Moore-Benet: The devil and Daniel Webster (Sound recording); Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Philadelphia Orchestra; Pro Arte Orchestra; Strauss, Richard; Barbirolli, John, Sir; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Sullivan, Arthur, Sir; Benét, Stephen Vincent; The wonderful waltzes of Tchaikovsky and Strauss (Book); Schwartz, Tony; Gilbert, W.S. (William Schwenck) PDF IMAGES
96	Jazz notes/Review Miles By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Parker, Charlie; Cookin' (Sound recording); Evans, Gil; Jazz; Jazz musicians; Miles ahead (Sound recording); Davis, Miles; Miles (Sound recording); 1951-1960; Performances; Relaxin' (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES