Harper's Magazine: August 1959

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August 1959

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Robert Hallock SEE ALSO: Astronautics and civilization; Hand; Moon PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from May 1959: Letter By John L. Leonard On The end of the old army, from June 1959: Letter By Caleb Holetstewa Johnson On How to make a movie out of The Ugly American, from June 1959: Letter By James C. (James Campbell) Hagerty Letter By Donald P. Keith Letter By Ben F. Whitehill Letter By Mary Walser Letter By John O. Percy On Among our contributors, from June 1959: Letter By Honore M. Catudal PDF IMAGES
12-16	The editor's easy chair/Article How to cure bird-watchers By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Bird watching; Birds; Crows PDF IMAGES
16	The editor's easy chair/Poem HOWL, or a Beatnik-type ode to our little feathered friends By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
17-19	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Mankind blasts off By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Exploration; Outer space PDF IMAGES
18	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
21-28	Article Sense and nonsense about space By Lee A. (Lee Alvin) DuBridge SEE ALSO: Astronautics and civilization; Manned space flight; Space and time; Space flight to the moon; Space stations; Space weapons PDF IMAGES
24	Article A stillness at Appomattox By Charles T. Moses SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Public schools; School integration; State rights PDF IMAGES
26	Poem Breakfast in bed in the hospital By John Ciardi PDF IMAGES
29-30	Article No fun to be sick any more By Elaine Kendall SEE ALSO: Care of the sick; Drugs; Influenza; Physician and patient; Sick; Side effects PDF IMAGES
31-38	Article A mirror for Anglo-Saxons By Martin Burgess Green SEE ALSO: American influences; National characteristics, British; Relations; World politics PDF IMAGES
38	Article Dreams of disengagement, Regency style By Sydney Smith SEE ALSO: War and society PDF IMAGES
39-45	Article The New York Herald Tribune: What goes on here? By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Career in newspaper publishing; Whitney, John Hay; Newspaper publishing; Reid, Ogden R. (Ogden Rogers); Press, Political party; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
41	Poem Versicle By Thomas J., Jr. Yborra PDF IMAGES
45	Notice Colleges: Midwest, South, and Pacific Coast By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Admission; College choice PDF IMAGES
46-52	Fiction The case for Mr. Parkhill [(the third of three stories)] By Leo Calvin Rosten PDF IMAGES
53-56	Article A fate worse than integration By Howard Zinn SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; School integration; Segregation PDF IMAGES
55	Article Justice for all By Clarence Darrow SEE ALSO: Discrimination in justice administration; Right to counsel PDF IMAGES
57-59	Article Hoards of music By Paul Henry Lang SEE ALSO: Instruction and study; Music; Music appreciation; Sound recordings in musicology PDF IMAGES
60-64	Article Verdict guilty—now what? By Karl A. (Karl Augustus) Menninger SEE ALSO: Capital punishment; Correctional psychology; Criminals; Judgments, Criminal; Rehabilitation PDF IMAGES
65-66	Article The delicate art of growing old By Sean O'Casey SEE ALSO: Aging; Authors, Irish; Biography; Correspondence; Devon; O'Casey, Sean; Desmond, Thomas C. PDF IMAGES Collection The delicate art of growing old PDF IMAGES
66	Graphs and Charts Americans grow older SEE ALSO: Aged; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
67-72	Article Why de Gaulle needs more miracles By Edwin Newman SEE ALSO: Africa; Algeria; Career as French president; Gaulle, Charles de; Colonies; 1958-; Portraits; Revolution, 1954-1962; Separation of powers PDF IMAGES
71	Poem Speaking of islands By Donald Rodney Justice PDF IMAGES
73-76	Fiction A wild night in Galway By Ray Bradbury PDF IMAGES
77-80	Article The changing map of American politics By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Apportionment (Election law); 1951-; 1953-1961; Population; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
82-84	After hours/Article The pool is blue By Valre Talley Davis SEE ALSO: Cost and standard of living; Cost of operation; Swimming pools PDF IMAGES
84-85	After hours/Article Immediate departure By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Air travel; Williamsburg PDF IMAGES
86-90	The new books/Review Gifts: Free and cultivated By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Ruml, Beardsley; Russell, Bertrand; Blaise Pascal (Book); Codfish, cats, and civilization (Book); Morrison, Donald H.; Mortimer, Ernest; For 2¢ plain (Book); Webster, Gary; Golden, Harry; Image of America (Book); Salvadori, Massimo; Memo to a college trustee (Book); Young, Michael Dunlop; My philosophical development (Book); Bruckberger, R.-L. (Raymond-Léopold); Seek the fair land (Book); The economics of freedom (Book); The rise of the meritocracy (Book); Macken, Walter PDF IMAGES
90-92	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A travelling woman (Book); Arnold, Armin; Yarmolinsky, Avrahm; Can man be modified? (Book); D.H. Lawrence and America (Book); Mazo, Earl; Astaire, Fred; Ingrid Bergman: an intimate portrait (Book); Rostand, Jean; Wain, John; Steele, Joseph Henry; Feibleman, Peter S.; Rovere, Richard Halworth; Richard Nixon: a political and personal portrait (Book); Senator Joe McCarthy (Book); Steps in time: an autobiography (Book); The daughters of necessity (Book); Turgenev: the man, his art, and his age (Book) PDF IMAGES
92	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Goutard, A.; Battle: the story of the Bulge (Book); Cook, Fred J.; Stewart, George Rippey; Toland, John; Pickett's charge (Book); Seth, Ronald; Stalingrad: point of no return: the story of the battle: August 1942-February 1943 (Book); The battle of France, 1940 (Book); What manner of men: forgotten heroes of the American Revolution (Book) PDF IMAGES
93-94	The new recordings/Review Seven years of plenty By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Beethoven: Sonatas for piano and violin, op. 30, #1 and #2 (Sound recording); Choral masterpieces of the Russian Orthodox Church (Sound recording); Divine liturgy. Requiem mass (Sound recording); Don Cossack Chorus; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Music; Roger Wagner Chorale; Jaroff, Serge PDF IMAGES
94	The new recordings/Review Worth hearing . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Winograd, Arthur; Beethoven: Symphony #9 (Sound recording); Tzipine, Georges; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Redel, Martin Christoph; Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich; Mozart: Eine kleine nachtmusik, K. 525; Les petits riens, K. anh. 10 (Sound recording); Mussorgsky: Complete songs (Sound recording); Klemperer, Otto; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Philharmonia Orchestra; Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; Sleeping beauty (suites) (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
95	Jazz notes/Review Jamal By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jamal, Ahmad; Jazz; 1951-1960; Performances PDF IMAGES