Harper's Magazine: June 1959

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June 1959

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By George Samerjan PDF IMAGES
6-14	Letters/Department Letters On MacLeish and the broken major, from April 1959: Letter By John deL. Moomaw Letter By Leila Engel Letter By Phil Keif Letter By Andrew Field Letter By Jane Hayman On The old original beatnik, from April 1959: Letter By Thomas McGrath Letter By Roger L. Faris Letter By James E. Suiter On The native-trained voice, from April 1959: Letter By Sanford Hamlin On History, from April 1959: Letter By L.M. Dickson PDF IMAGES
16-21	The easy chair/Article How to make a movie out of The Ugly American By Thomas W., Jr. Wilson SEE ALSO: Cold War; Developing countries; Economic assistance, American; Burdick, Eugene; Film and video adaptations; Historical fiction, American; The ugly American (Book); Lederer, William J. PDF IMAGES
20	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
24-27	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
26	Personal and otherwise/Notice Mass media fellowships By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Adult education; Scholarships, fellowships, etc. PDF IMAGES
29-34	Article Germs and gas: The weapons nobody dares talk about By Jacquard Hirshorn Rothschild SEE ALSO: Biological weapons; Chemical weapons; Military policy PDF IMAGES
33	Article The cold Waugh on the literary front By Evelyn Waugh SEE ALSO: Biography—Humor; Criticism; Harris, Frank; Brome, Vincent PDF IMAGES
35-41	Fiction Hyman Kaplan, ever eumoirous ([the first of three stories]) By Leo Calvin Rosten* PDF IMAGES
42-45	Article When I learned I had cancer By Richard L. (Richard Lewis) Neuberger SEE ALSO: Biography; Cancer; Oregon; Patients; Portland; Neuberger, Richard L. (Richard Lewis); Treatment PDF IMAGES
44	Article Give a teen-ager a job By Karl Marx SEE ALSO: Youth PDF IMAGES
46-48	Article The booming market in honorary degrees By Myron Kandel and Albert C. Lasher SEE ALSO: Celebrities; Degrees, Academic PDF IMAGES
49-54	Article Notes from Eastern Europe By George Steiner SEE ALSO: Czechoslovakia; Defenses; Europe, Eastern; 1945-1989; 1945-1992; Poland PDF IMAGES
53	Poem A visit to the country By Anthony Ostroff PDF IMAGES
55-57	Fiction The great fish of Como: A story By Dean Acheson PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article Reading, writing, and television By David C. Stewart SEE ALSO: Functional literacy; Memphis; Television in education PDF IMAGES
60-64	Article Requiem for the laboring man By Warner Bloomberg SEE ALSO: Automation; Effect of automation on; Labor supply; Working class PDF IMAGES
64-70	Article Sears, Roebuck's Mexican revolution By Daniel James SEE ALSO: Consumer behavior PDF IMAGES
71	Collection Rules By Christopher Logue PDF IMAGES Poem Understand others By Christopher Logue PDF IMAGES Poem Good taste By Christopher Logue PDF IMAGES Poem Be practical By Christopher Logue PDF IMAGES Poem Educate By Christopher Logue PDF IMAGES Poem Understand yourself By Christopher Logue PDF IMAGES Poem What I heard an ass sing By Christopher Logue PDF IMAGES Poem Observe details By Christopher Logue PDF IMAGES
72-77	Article Race prejudice in jazz: It works both ways By Nat Hentoff SEE ALSO: Jazz; 1951-1960; Race discrimination; Reverse discrimination PDF IMAGES
77	Poem Saturday's child By Philene Hammer PDF IMAGES
78-81	Article Call me Ismail By Daniel Bell SEE ALSO: Pakistan; Police PDF IMAGES
82-85	Article The end of the old army By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Military policy; Organizations & Bureaucracies PDF IMAGES
85	Article Look who's temperate now SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. diplomat; Career as U.S. senator; Luce, Clare Boothe; Legislative hearings; Morse, Wayne L. (Wayne Lyman) PDF IMAGES
86-87	Mr. Harper's after hours/Article Baseball is ruining television By David K. Dempsey SEE ALSO: Baseball fans; Television and baseball PDF IMAGES
87-89	Mr. Harper's after hours/Article The biggest show in all the world By Bernard Asbell SEE ALSO: Career as theatrical manager; Arthur, Jack; Musicals; Ontario; Production and direction; Theatrical managers; Toronto PDF IMAGES
90-96	The new books/Review Images of society By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Cordell, Alexander; Roueche, Berton; Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright); Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall; Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories (Book); Barzun, Jacques; Murtagh, John; Roth, Philip; Suckow, Ruth; Harris, Sara; Sociology literature; The delectable mountains (Book); The harmless people (Book); The house of intellect (Book); The John Wood case (Book); The rape of the fair country (Book); The sociological imagination (Book); Who live in shadow (Book) PDF IMAGES
96-99	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: All the conspirators (Book); Isherwood, Christopher; Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert); Taylor, Dwight; Scott, Geoffrey; Steiner, George; Gold, Herbert; Hawkes, Jacquetta Hopkins; Joy ride (Book); Lady Chatterley's lover (Book); Providence Island (Book); The optimist (Book); The portrait of Zelide (Book); The status seekers (Book); Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: an essay in the old criticism (Book); Packard, Vance Oakley PDF IMAGES
99	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Alaska, U.S.A. (Book); Gordon, Albert Isaac; Gibney, Frank; Hawaii (Book); Hilscher, Herb; Image of America (Book); Michener, James A. (James Albert); Jews in suburbia (Book); Brennan, Louis A.; No stone unturned (Book); De Vries, Peter; Bruckberger, R.-L. (Raymond-Léopold); The operators (Book); The tents of wickedness (Book) PDF IMAGES
100-103	The new recordings/Review Haute cuisine By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Fistoulari, Anatole; Karloff, Boris; Chausson: Piano quartet in A minor, op. 30 (Sound recording); Delibes: Sylvia (complete ballet) (Sound recording); Detroit Symphony; Lalo, Edouard; Chausson, Ernest; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Swarowsky, Hans; Berlioz, Hector; Sanromá, Jesús María; Haydn, Joseph; Delibes, Léo; Bernstein, Leonard; London Philharmonic; London Symphony; Thuille, Ludwig; Mendelssohn: Symphony #4 (“Italian”). Haydn: Symphony #104 (“London”) (Sound recording); Mendelssohn: Symphony #4 (“Italian”); Trumpet overture in C (Sound recording); More of Kipling's Just So stories (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Ouvertures françaises (Sound recording); Patrie; Performances; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Purchasing; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Stereophonic sound systems; Tchaikovsky: Symphony #1 (“Winter Dreams”) (Sound recording); Thuille: Piano sextet in B flat, op. 6 (Sound recording); Vienna Philharmonia; Vienna State Opera Orchestra PDF IMAGES
103	The new recordings/Review Worth hearing . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bach: Mass in B minor (Sound recording); Paumgartner, Bernard; Boepple; Monteverdi, Claudio; Dessoff Choirs; Nobel, Felix de; Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da; Dufay, Guillaume; Grischkat, Hans; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K. 196, highlights (Sound recording); Music of Guillaume Dufay (Sound recording); Netherlands Chamber Choir; Palestrina and Monteverdi (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
104	Jazz notes/Review Bird By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Parker, Charlie; Jazz; 1951-1960; Hentoff, Nat; Performances; The Charlie Parker story (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES