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March 1959

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By George Samerjan SEE ALSO: Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott); Novelists, American; Portraits PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On The American genius for hypocrisy, from November 1958: Letter By Thomas L. Jeltrup Letter By Roby Wentz Letter By Albert Spero On How to be a man of distinction, from January 1959: Letter By R.C. Wolf Letter By Henry B. Smith III PDF IMAGES
14-25	The editor's easy chair/Article A deal with Russia? What it might cost us and what we might hope to get By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cold War; Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes; Europe, Eastern; German reunification question (1949-1990); 1945-1991; 1953-1961; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
28-29	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Ashes on our heads By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Foreign countries; Married women PDF IMAGES
31-36	Article The pretty Americans: How wives behave overseas By Harlan Cleveland SEE ALSO: Foreign countries; Married women PDF IMAGES
36	Article Love on Madison Avenue By Charles H. (Charles Hendrickson) Brower SEE ALSO: Advertising campaigns; Sales personnel PDF IMAGES
37-39	Article File and forget By Stewart Richardson SEE ALSO: Memorandums; Mnemonics; 1945-1970; Note-taking PDF IMAGES
40-49	Article What a modern Catholic believes By Philip J. Scharper SEE ALSO: Catholics; Christianity; Faith and reason; I and Thou (Book); Buber, Martin; 1945-1960 PDF IMAGES
48	Poem Well, that's that By Hilbert Schenck PDF IMAGES
50-55	Article The Wall Street Journal woos the eggheads By John Brooks SEE ALSO: Journalism, Commercial; Newspaper publishing; Press and politics PDF IMAGES
56-63	Article The theater of middle seriousness: A report on the Broadway season By Robert Sanford Brustein SEE ALSO: MacLeish, Archibald; Schulberg, Budd; Cue for passion (Play); Rice, Elmer; Breit, Harvey; J.B. (Play); Fields, Joseph A.; Logan, Joshua; Hammerstein, Oscar; Osborn, Paul; Rodgers, Richard; The disenchanted (Play); The flower drum song (Play); The world of Suzie Wong (Play); Theater and society PDF IMAGES
58	Poem Old world dialogue By Robert Graves PDF IMAGES
64-66	Article The happy cardiac By Clarence B. (Clarence Belden) Randall SEE ALSO: Coronary heart disease; Diagnosis; Diseases; Heart; Patients PDF IMAGES
67-71	Article Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood By Dwight Taylor SEE ALSO: Biography; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott); Hollywood; Hollywood (Calif.); Screenwriters; Short stories, American PDF IMAGES
71	Poem Philander musing By Judson Jerome PDF IMAGES
72-81	Article Waste not, have not: A clue to American prosperity By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: Conservation of natural resources; Consumer behavior; Consumption (Economics); Democracy; Roadside litter PDF IMAGES
82-87	Fiction Eagle day: A story By Esther Wagner PDF IMAGES
88-91	Article The elegant professional who is running England By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as British prime minister; Macmillan, Harold; 1945-1964; Prime ministers PDF IMAGES
92	Mr. Harper's after hours/Article The librarian's friend By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Antiquarian booksellers; Career as antiquarian bookseller; Cox, Carol PDF IMAGES
93-95	Mr. Harper's after hours/Article Waterfalls and tall buildings By David K. Dempsey SEE ALSO: Aged; Almanac publishing; Popular culture; Skyscrapers; -Statistics; Waterfalls PDF IMAGES
96-104	The new books/Review Mostly about the young By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A room in Moscow (Book); An anthropologist at work: writings of Ruth Benedict (Book); Pendergast, Constance; Born, Edith de; Felding Castle (Book); Hechinger, Fred M.; Harry Vernon at prep (Book); Henderson the rain king (Book); Whitehill, Joseph; Goytisolo, Juan; Mead, Margaret; Payne, Robert; Benedict, Ruth; Dean, S.F.X.; Belfrage, Sally; Bellow, Saul; Summer's lease (Book); The angers of spring (Book); The big red schoolhouse (Book); The gold of Troy (Book); The young assassins (Book) PDF IMAGES
105-108	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Saxton, Alexander; Garve, Andrew; Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; Bright web in the darkness (Book); Elephant Hill (Book); Fry, Humphrey; If the cap fits (Book); Juice (Book); White, Robin; Fuchs, Vivian, Sir; Hillary, Edmund, Sir; Becker, Stephen D.; Kaufman, Sue; The coming of the New Deal (Book); The crossing of Antarctica (Book); The Galloway case (Book); The happy summer days (Book) PDF IMAGES
108	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A round of golf with Tommy Armour (Book); Adams of the Bounty (Book); Villiers, Alan John; Lansing, Alfred; Mann, Arthur (Arthur William); Athletes; DeMott, Benjamin; Corum, Bill; Blow the man down! (Book); Cadwallader (Book); Camera (Book); Endurance: Shackleton's incredible voyage (Book); Wilson, Erle; Fire at sea (Book); Bloom, Harry; Richter, Harvena; Kastle, Herbert D.; It takes heart (Book); It's good to be alive (Book); Williams, James H.; Sharnik, John; Graham, Frank, Jr.; Mayflower II (Book); Allen, Mel; Off and running (Book); Playing for life: Billy Talbert's story (Book); Campanella, Roy; Lynes, Russell; Seafaring life; Sorrow laughs (Book); The body's cage (Book); The human shore (Book); Gallagher, Thomas Michael; Armour, Tommy; Talbert, William F. PDF IMAGES
109-112	The new recordings/Review Perspectives By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Argenta; Gamson, Arnold; Mill, Arnold van; Boston Symphony; Munch, Charles; Debussy, Claude; Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Debussy: Afternoon of a faun; Nocturnes; Jeux (Book); Debussy: La Mer; Iberia (Sound recording); Farrell, Eileen; Eileen Farrell as Medea (Sound recording); Ormandy, Eugene; Falla: El Amor brujo; Nights in the gardens of Spain (Sound recording); Falla: El retablo de maese Pedro; Harpsichord concerto (Sound recording); Knappertsbusch, Hans; Lange, Hans; Flagstad, Kirsten; Cherubini, Luigi; Falla, Manuel de; Rosenthal, Manuel; Performances; Philadelphia Orchestra; Wagner, Richard; Svanholm, Set; The art of Kirsten Flagstad (Sound recording); Wagner: Brünnhilde's immolation (Götterdämmerung); Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan) (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
111	The new recordings/Review Worth hearing . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Lomax, Alan; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Cento Soli Orchestra of Paris; Chabrun, Daniel; Detroit Symphony; Grieg, Edvard; Jochum, Eugen; Ormandy, Eugene; Schubert, Franz; Grieg: Piano concerto. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (Sound recording); Music and song of Italy (Sound recording); North, Myles E.W.; Paul Badura-Skoda and Joerg Demus play Schubert (Sound recording); Paray, Paul; Philadelphia Orchestra; Rachmaninoff: Symphony #2 (Sound recording); Schumann, Robert; Schubert: Symphony in C (“The Great”) (Sound recording); Schumann: Piano concerto in A minor (Sound recording); Rachmaninoff, Sergei; Voices of African birds (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
112	Jazz notes/Review Tenor sax By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; 1951-1960 PDF IMAGES