Harper's Magazine: September 1958

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September 1958

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By George Samerjan PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On One way to get elected, from January 1958: Note/correction On Recipe for a fast million, from July 1958: Letter By Robert Gordon On Among our contributors, from July 1958: Letter By Louis Hollander PDF IMAGES
12	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
14-20	The editor's easy chair/Article Self-portrait of the Harper reader By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Circulation; Readership surveys PDF IMAGES
22-23	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: The governor exposed By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as New York governor; Governors; Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell) PDF IMAGES
25-31	Article Why we are losing the ruble war By Waldemar A. Nielsen SEE ALSO: Mikoian, A.I. (Anastas Ivanovich); Career as Soviet economic planner; Cold War; Developing countries; Economic assistance, Soviet; Foreign economic relations; 1945-1960 PDF IMAGES
31	Article The revolt of the masses SEE ALSO: Lebanon; Proceedings; Television viewers; United Nations. Security Council; Youngstown PDF IMAGES
32-38	Fiction Just a simple country boy By Priscilla D. Willis PDF IMAGES
35	Poem The gunfighters By Constance Urdang PDF IMAGES
39-45	Article The coming Ice Age: A true scientific detective story By Betty Friedan SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Forecasting; Views on glacial climates; Ewing, W. Maurice (William Maurice); Donn, William L. PDF IMAGES
45	Article Death in the numbers game SEE ALSO: Austria; Evidence (Law); Lotteries; Trials (Murder); Vienna PDF IMAGES
46-54	Article The wonderful zoo in the Bronx By Edith Iglauer SEE ALSO: Bronx Zoo (New York, New York); Career as director of Bronx Zoo; Tee-Van, John; Management; Portraits; Zoo animals PDF IMAGES
55-59	Article How to get better public servants By W. Averell (William Averell) Harriman SEE ALSO: Civil service; Civil service reform; Personnel management; Portraits; Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell) PDF IMAGES
60-65	Article The almost perfect cook By Mira Michal SEE ALSO: Cooks PDF IMAGES
66-71	Article TV ratings: What they really mean By Bernard Asbell SEE ALSO: Public opinion polls; Rating; Television programs PDF IMAGES
72-76	Article “Talent for life” in a new Russian novel By Babette Deutsch SEE ALSO: Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich; Communism and literature; Dr. Zhivago (Book); Novelists, Russian; Russian literature PDF IMAGES
75	Poem Egotist By Felix Stefanile PDF IMAGES
77-82	Article The misunderstood conservative By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Cold War; Conservatism; Acheson, Dean; Foreign economic relations; International economic relations; 1953-1961; Views on U.S. foreign economic relations PDF IMAGES
82	Article Communiqué from the Politz Bureau By Alfred Politz SEE ALSO: Consumer behavior; Marketing research PDF IMAGES
84-86	After hours/Article Back to the drawing board By Carl Koch SEE ALSO: Architecture, Domestic; Prefabricated houses PDF IMAGES
86-88	After hours/Article “Weddings and babies” By Richard Leacock SEE ALSO: Dubbing of motion pictures; Engel, Morris; Motion pictures, Italian; Weddings and babies (Motion picture) PDF IMAGES
88	After hours/Article Obit By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Bridgeport; Bridgeport (Conn.); Conservation and restoration; Elections; Gothic revival (Architecture); Historic buildings; Wheeler House (Bridgeport, Conn.) PDF IMAGES
89-97	The new books/Review The middle ground and some more exotic regions By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Moorehead, Alan; Guérard, Albert J. (Albert Joseph); Braider, Donald; Germany and the revolution in Russia, 1915-1918 (Sound recording); Dabbs, James McBride; Let no man write my epitaph (Book); Lolita (Book); Chase, Richard Volney; Short stories of Russia today (Book); Shebunina, Tatiana; The bystander (Book); The democratic vista (Book); The palace guard (Book); The Russian Revolution (Book); The Southern heritage (Book); Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich; Motley, Willard; Kapp, Yvonne; Zeman, Z.A.B. (Zbynek A.B.) PDF IMAGES
97-99	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Algeria: the realities (Book); Bridge, Ann; Discourse with shadows (Book); Tillion, Germaine; House of many rooms (Book); Malcolm, Jean; Duffus, R.L. (Robert Luther); White, Robin; The best short stories of Edith Wharton (Book); The Portuguese escape (Book); Andrews, Wayne; Williamstown Branch; impersonal memories of a Vermont boyhood (Book) PDF IMAGES
99	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Tate, Allen; American poetry; And all we call American (Book); Cold as a dog and the wind northeast (Book); Sitwell, Edith, Dame; Diptych, Rome-London (Book); Hall, Donald; Pound, Ezra; Ghika; Homage to Propertius (Book); Gregory, Horace; Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Book); Karasz, Ilonka; Friar, Kimon; Cecil, David, Lord; Merry Christmas, Happy New Year (Book); Metamorphoses (Book); Kazantzakis, Nikos; Ovid; McGinley, Phyllis; Frost, Robert; Moore, Ruth; The Atlantic book of British and American poetry (Book); The dark houses (Book); The odyssey: a modern sequel (Book); The strange islands (Book); Roethke, Theodore; Merton, Thomas; Words for the wind (Book); Gay, Zhenya PDF IMAGES
100-102	The new recordings/Review Piano perspectives By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Beethoven: Piano sonatas, op. 109, 110, 111 (Sound recording); Chopin cameos (Sound recording); Fischer, Edwin; Chopin, Frédéric; Banhalmi, George; Handel, George Frideric; Solchany, George; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Brahms, Johannes; Haydn, Joseph; Kondrashin, Kirill Petrovich; Smit, Leo; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Mozart: Piano concerto in D minor, K. 466. Bach: Brandenburg concerto #5 (Sound recording); Reisenberg, Nadia; Performances; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Schumann, Robert; Rachmaninoff, Sergei; Sound recordings in musicology; Zaremba, Sylvia; Sylvia Zaremba plays Brahms and Handel (Sound recording); Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto #1 (Sound recording); Cliburn, Van; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
102	The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Monteverdi, Claudio; Cimarosa, Domenico; Dussek: Piano sonatas, op. 61, op. 45, no. 1, op. 20, no. 3; Sonata four hands, op. 32 (Sound recording); Geminiani, Francesco; Dusek, Frantisek Xaver; Le Roux, Gaspard; Gaspard Le Roux: Pièces de clavessin 1705 (Sound recording); Geminiani: Concerti grossi, op. 7. I (Sound recording); Handel, George Frideric; Purcell, Henry; Homage to Henry Purcell—an anthology (Sound recording); Monteverdi—selected works (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
103	Jazz notes/Review Big blond boogie By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; Scandinavia PDF IMAGES