Harper's Magazine: December 1958

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December 1958

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	Illustration [Cover art] By George Samerjan SEE ALSO: Twain, Mark; Portraits PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On The misunderstood conservative, from September 1958: Letter By Jerome Sill On Self-portrait of the Harper reader, from September 1958: Letter By Martha J. Kunkle PDF IMAGES
12-18	The editor's easy chair/Article The Yuletide will get you if you don't watch out By John Fischer SEE ALSO: A manual for Neanderthals (Book); Authors and publishers; Birth control; Career in Dept. of Justice; Catholic Church; Cereals, Prepared; Christmas cards; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Forests and forestry; Doub, George Cochran; Great Britain. Navy; Mewhinney, H.; Houston; Japanese Americans; McPartland, John; Multiple use; Norwalk; Polygamy; Remainders (Bookselling); Sex in our changing world (Book); Shopping malls; Signals and signaling; Social integration PDF IMAGES
18	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
19	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Feeding and fund-raising By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Fund raising PDF IMAGES Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Wellspring of ten per cent truth By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
20	Personal and otherwise/Article Alexis Soyer's Christmas dinner in Ham Yard to 22,000 of the poor, 1852 By Alexis Soyer SEE ALSO: Christmas cookery; Food relief; Menus PDF IMAGES
23-31	Article Mutiny of the bountiful: Why the volunteer health money-raisers are rebelling By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Charities, Medical; Charity organization; Fund raising PDF IMAGES
30	Poem A student, departing for Christmas vacation, to himself By Thomas B. (Thomas Bacon) Whitbread PDF IMAGES
32-35	Article The man who invented modern cooking By Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham Smith SEE ALSO: Albania; Soyer, Alexis; Career in military nursing; Cooks; Crimean War, 1853-1856; Nightingale, Florence; Food service; Hospitals; Knowledge—Cookery; Scutari; The modern housewife (Book) PDF IMAGES
36-41	Collection Mark Twain speaks out PDF IMAGES Article No terrors for me By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: Belief and doubt; Biography; Immortality; Twain, Mark PDF IMAGES
37	Article Note to the reader By Charles Neider SEE ALSO: Autobiography; Biography; Twain, Mark PDF IMAGES Article Honorary degrees By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: Biography; Degrees; Degrees, Academic; Twain, Mark; University of Oxford PDF IMAGES
38-39	Article Amateur writings By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: Amateurism; Biography; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Twain, Mark; Marketing PDF IMAGES
39-41	Article Humor By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: Biography; Humorists, American; Lectures and lecturing; Twain, Mark PDF IMAGES
42-50	Article Brooklyn College: Culture in Flatbush By David Boroff SEE ALSO: Alumni and alumnae; Brooklyn (New York, New York); Coeducation; Evening and continuation schools PDF IMAGES
49	Notice Coming . . . By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
51-55	Fiction The extern: A story By Theodore Jacobs PDF IMAGES
54	Article A clarification from Rosebud SEE ALSO: 1953-1961; Philosophy; Political science PDF IMAGES
56-60	Article The outraged Okinawans By Barton M. Biggs SEE ALSO: Anti-Americanism; Foreign public opinion, Japanese; Military bases, American; Military life; Prostitution; Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
61-71	Article Extinction by thruway: The fight to save a town By Polly Praeger SEE ALSO: Broome County; Express highways; Right of way; Roads; Women in politics PDF IMAGES
71	Poem The innkeeper's story By Jane Cooper PDF IMAGES
72-79	Article South Dakota's Christian martyrs By Richard S., Jr. Meryman SEE ALSO: Collective settlements; Land tenure; South Dakota PDF IMAGES
75-78	Cartoon Heavenly bodies SEE ALSO: Angels PDF IMAGES
80-83	Article Eisenhower opens the last act By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
84-86	Mr. Harper's after hours/Department Mr. Harper's after hours PDF IMAGES After hours/Article Cosmic chess By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Bergman, Ingmar; The seventh seal (Motion picture) PDF IMAGES
85-86	After hours/Article Fit to be tied By Pyke Johnson SEE ALSO: Career in making neckties; Home-based businesses; Taylor, Julie; Neckties PDF IMAGES
88-102	The new books/Review Academics, owners, artists, and others By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Agee on film (Book); Huxley, Aldous; King, Alexander; Saarinen, Aline B.(Aline Bernstein); Brave new world revisited (Book); Williams, George; Here, of all places! (Book); Agee, James; Galbraith, John Kenneth; Journey to Poland and Yugoslavia (Book); Mine enemy grows older (Book); Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix; McGee, Reece; Lancaster, Osbert, Sir; Some of my best friends are professors (Book); The academic marketplace (Book); The academic mind (Book); The proud possessors (Book); Caplow, Theodore; Thielens, Wagner PDF IMAGES
102-105	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: De Mille, Agnes; And promenade home (Book); Chamberlain, Anne; Complete book of the American musical theater (Book); Ewen, David; Jablonski, Edward; Pinza, Ezio; Ezio Pinza: an autobiography (Book); George Gershwin, man and legend (Book); Brooks, John; Stewart, Lawrence D.(Lawrence Delbert); Armitage, Merle; Music; Benchley, Nathaniel; One to grow on (Book); One Ulysses too many (Book); Magidoff, Robert; Jameson, Storm; The darkest bough (Book); The Gershwin years: the story of George and Ira Gershwin in words and pictures (Book); The seven fat years (Book) PDF IMAGES
105	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A day in Monte Carlo (Book); A long way down (Book); Garve, Andrew; Be careful how you live (Book); Benson, Ben; Blair, Clay; Lacy, Ed; Fenwick, Elizabeth; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Nielsen, Helen; Slesar, Henry; Albrand, Martha; Nautilus 90 North (Book); Fuchs, Vivian, Sir; Hillary, Edmund, Sir; The case of the chased and the unchaste (Book); The case of the deadly toy (Book); The crossing of Antarctica (Book); The end of violence (Book); The fifth caller (Book); The Galloway case (Book); The gray flannel shroud (Book); Dewey, Thomas Blanchard; Anderson, William R. PDF IMAGES
106-108	The new recordings/Review A child's Christmas By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Albert; Paulik, Anton; Janigro, Antonio; Vivaldi, Antonio; Karloff, Boris; Cento Soli Orchestra of Paris; Kunz, Erich; German university songs (Sound recording); Stravinsky, Igor; Harris, Joel Chandler; Rossi, Mario; Mozart: Four horn concertos (Sound recording); Greenberg, Noah; Performances; Prokofieff: Peter and the wolf; Lieutenant Kijé suite (Sound recording); Harris, Remus; Prokofieff, Sergey; Solisti di Zagreb; Stravinsky: Petrouchka (Sound recording); The play of Daniel (Sound recording); Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Vivaldi: The four seasons (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
107	The new recordings/Review Worth hearing . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bach: Art of the fugue (Sound recording); Berlin Philharmonic; Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (Sound recording); Brahms: Magelone songs, op. 33 (Sound recording); Bruckner-Guggeberg; Cento Soli Orchestra of Paris; Die dreigroschenoper (Threepenny opera) (Sound recording); Lalo, Edouard; Fauré: Shylock suite. Lalo: Divertissement (Sound recording); Fauré, Gabriel; Berlioz, Hector; Steinecke, Heinz; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Brahms, Johannes; London Symphony; Fourestier, Louis; Mozart: Requiem, K. 626 (Sound recording); Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay; Philharmonia Orchestra of Hamburg; Monteux, Pierre; Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherazade (Sound recording); Kempe, Rudolf; St. Hedwig's Choir; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
108	Jazz notes/Review Limbo By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Wilder, Alec; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; European windows (Sound recording); Russell, George; Schuller, Gunther; Jazz; Lewis, John; Modern jazz concert (Sound recording); Lowe, Mundell; Music for brass (Sound recording); 1951-1960; New music of Alec Wilder (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES