Harper's Magazine: July 1958

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July 1958

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Bernard Perlin SEE ALSO: Arson; Forest fires PDF IMAGES
4-9	Letters/Department Letters On How to keep Congress honest, from May 1958: Letter By C.H. Massie Letter By Michael D. Reagan Letter By Richard L. (Richard Lewis) Neuberger Letter By Henry S. Reuss Letter By T.N. Schroth PDF IMAGES
10-14	The editor's easy chair/Article Recipe for a fast million By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Ethnology; Social status PDF IMAGES
15-17	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Earthly paradise By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Catskill Mountains (New York) PDF IMAGES
16	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
19-25	Article Veterans: Our biggest privileged class By John E. Booth SEE ALSO: Medical care; Military pensions; Veterans; Veterans, Disabled PDF IMAGES
21	Poem On minding one's own business By James Arlington Wright PDF IMAGES
26-27	Article Mrs. Gopul didn't make it By Raymond Arnott McConnell SEE ALSO: Broadcast journalism; Emergency management; Rural families; Tornadoes PDF IMAGES
28-33	Article Southerners who set the woods on fire By Ed Kerr SEE ALSO: Arson; Forest fires; Prevention and control PDF IMAGES
34-39	Article Time on our hands By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Consumers; Consumption (Economics); Dilettantism; Leisure PDF IMAGES
40-47	Fiction The Iowan's curse: A story By Charles G. (Charles Grandison) Finney PDF IMAGES
48-55	Article A grass-roots guide to '58 and '60 By William G. (William Graves) Carleton SEE ALSO: Election forecasting; 1953-1961; 1960; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES Collection A grass-roots guide to '58 and '60 By William G. (William Graves) Carleton PDF IMAGES
50	Article The neutrals By William G. (William Graves) Carleton SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
54	Article The way to the White House By William G. (William Graves) Carleton SEE ALSO: 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
56-63	Article The Catskills: Still having wonderful time By David Boroff SEE ALSO: Catskill Mountains; Catskill Mountains (New York); Entertainers; Hotels; Jews PDF IMAGES
64-68	Article School for statesmen By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Clubs; Political leadership; Statesmen PDF IMAGES
67	Article Elmer Davis: 1890-1958 By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Davis, Elmer Holmes; Journalists PDF IMAGES
69-73	Article Such nice Finns By Chad Walsh SEE ALSO: Finland PDF IMAGES
74-81	Article The article as art By Norman Podhoretz SEE ALSO: American periodicals; American prose literature; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Criticism PDF IMAGES
76	Notice New voice By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as Harper's Washington correspondent; Legislative reporting; White, William Smith PDF IMAGES
81	Article Dictionary of Charlestonese SEE ALSO: Charleston; Charleston (S.C.); Provincialisms; South Carolina PDF IMAGES
82-83	After hours/Article Palms and circuses By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Exhibitions PDF IMAGES
83-84	After hours/Article Why our maps aren't good enough By Richard Edes Harrison SEE ALSO: Cartographers; Cartography; Geography; Training of PDF IMAGES
86-91	The new books/Review Novels of middle age and others By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Hotchner, A.E.; Ekert-Rotholz, Alice Maria; West, Anthony C.; Dryer, Bernard V. (Bernard Victor); Darwin's century (Book); Feldman, Gene; Black, Ian Stuart; Weidman, Jerome; Eiseley, Loren C.; Gartenberg, Max; Memoirs of a public baby (Book); O'Connor, Philip; River's End and other stories (Book); Grau, Shirley Ann; The Beat Generation and the angry young men (Book); The dangerous American (Book); The enemy camp (Book); The hard blue sky (Book); The image makers (Book); The passionate city (Book); The time of the dragons (Book) PDF IMAGES
91-93	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A dangerous innocence (Book); A friend in power (Book); Afternoon of an author: a selection of uncollected stories and essays (Book); Baker, Carlos; Cats and how I photograph them (Book); Ferber, Ellen; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott); Famous fires (Book); Gingerbread man (Book); Clevely, Hugh; Spies, Joseph R.; Cook, Reginald Lansing; The dimensions of Robert Frost (Book); Lincoln, Victoria PDF IMAGES
93	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Angelina in Malabar (Book); Art and reality (Book); Drexler, Arthur; Menen, Aubrey; Chez Pavan (Book); Dear and glorious physician (Book); Eloise at Christmastime (Book); Gann, Ernest Kellogg; From the terrace (Book); George Catlin and the old frontier (Book); Bazin, Germain; McCracken, Harold; Here, of all places! (Book); History of art (Book); Kerouac, Jack; Soby, James Thrall; Thurber, James; Jean Arp (Book); O'Hara, John; Cary, Joyce; Thompson, Kay; Let no man write my epitaph (Book); Bemelmans, Ludwig; My life in art (Book); Shute, Nevil; Llewellyn, Richard; Lancaster, Osbert, Sir; Taylor Caldwell; The Dharma bums (Book); The rainbow and the rose (Book); The trouble with Ethel (Book); The years with Ross (Book); What is modern architecture? (Book); Motley, Willard PDF IMAGES
94-96	The new recordings/Review Organs By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bach at Zwolle (Sound recording); Bach: Three chorale partitas (Sound recording); Trevor, C.H.(Caleb Henry); Franck, César; Biggs, E. Power (Edward Power); Commette, Edouard; Franck: Pièce heroïque; Three chorales (Sound recording); Liszt, Franz; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Sebastian, John; John Sebastian plays Bach (Sound recording); Organ music; Performances; Foort, Reginald; Ellsasser, Richard; Robert Baker; Noehren, Robert PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Paulik, Anton; Berlin Philharmonic; Buxtehude, Dietrich; Telemann, Georg Philipp; Paillard, Jean François; Mouret, Jean-Joseph; Jean-Marie Leclair Instrumental Ensemble; Lelande; Maazel, Lorin; Marais, Marin; Mouret: Fanfares; Symphonies. Lalande: Symphonies des soupers du roy (suite #4). Marin Marais: Suite from “Alcione” (Sound recording); Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Prokofieff: Cinderella (excerpts from the ballet) (Sound recording); Irving, Robert; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Prokofieff, Sergey; Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet. Prokofieff: Romeo and Juliet (suite) (Sound recording); Telemann: Oboe concerto in E; Oboe concerto in D; Viola concerto in G; Violin concerto in A; Sonata a quattro in A (Sound recording); The Strauss dynasty: Vienna dances (Sound recording); Vienna State Opera Orchestra PDF IMAGES
96	Jazz notes/Review Easy riding By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Blues for night people (Sound recording); Jazz; 1951-1960 PDF IMAGES