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October 1959

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Bob Cato SEE ALSO: Manuscripts PDF IMAGES
4-11	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from July 1959: Letter By Louise Whitehead On TV and its critics, from July 1959: Letter By “The Editors” On How to cure bird-watchers, from August 1959: Letter By Horace Knowles Letter By “The Editors” On The pool is blue, from August 1959: Letter By Richard Bergusi PDF IMAGES
12-24	The editor's easy chair/Article Writers and their editors: Notes on an uneasy marriage By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Authors and publishers; Editors; Marketing PDF IMAGES
24	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
26-31	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: The freest lives By John Fischer SEE ALSO: College teachers as authors PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article On Wisconsin! By David Boroff SEE ALSO: Career as University of Wisconsin president; Elvehjem, Conrad; Madison; State universities and colleges; University of Wisconsin PDF IMAGES
41-46	Article The steaming Stanley twins By Howard D. (Howard Douglas) Fabing SEE ALSO: Doble, Abner; Antique and classic cars; Automobiles, Steam; Stanley, Francis Edgar; Stanley, Freelan Oscar; Inventors; Knowledge—Steam automobiles; Twins PDF IMAGES
47-52	Article The man on the 38th floor By Joseph P. Lash SEE ALSO: Career as United Nations secretary-general; Hammarskjöld, Dag; Hammarskjold, Dag; Diplomacy; Officials and employees; Portraits; United Nations; World politics PDF IMAGES
53-61	Fiction The wolfer By Wallace Earle Stegner PDF IMAGES
62-66	Article How much poison are you breathing? By Charles Schaeffer and Art Cosing SEE ALSO: Air; Air quality; Cancer; Los Angeles; Lungs; Measurement; Motor vehicles; Pollution; Pollution control devices; Smog PDF IMAGES
67-73	Article Mr. Balanchine builds a ballet By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Ballet; Career as choreographer; Choreography; Balanchine, George; d'Amboise, Jacques; New York City Ballet; Wilde, Patricia; Portraits PDF IMAGES Collection Mr. Balanchine builds a ballet By Robert Kotlowitz PDF IMAGES
69	Article St. Petersburg to New York By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Career as choreographer; Choreographers; Balanchine, George PDF IMAGES
74-77	Article Why spoil the Adirondacks? By Robert Rienow and Leona Train Rienow SEE ALSO: Adirondack Forest Preserve (New York); Conservation of natural resources; Express highways; 1951-; Right of way; Roads PDF IMAGES
77	Poem Catkind By Robert Graves PDF IMAGES
78-81	Article Good old London By Martha Gellhorn SEE ALSO: National characteristics, English PDF IMAGES
86-90	Article Advise and consent By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Advise and consent (Book); Drury, Allen; 1953-1961; Political ethics; Separation of powers PDF IMAGES
92	After hours/Article The last rescue By Leta Myers Smart SEE ALSO: Government relations; Monuments; 1934- PDF IMAGES After hours/Article The Lyon-eater By Nicholas King PDF IMAGES
96-100	Music in the round/Review Performers and their personalities By Discus SEE ALSO: Schneider, Alexander; Wallenstein, Alfred; Dvorák, Antonín; Rubinstein, Artur; Boston Symphony; Brahms: Piano concerto #1 (Sound recording); Brahms: Piano concerto #2 (Sound recording); Brahms: Violin concerto (Sound recording); Munch, Charles; Chopin: Concerto in F minor (Sound recording); Columbia Symphony; Shostakovich, Dmitriæi Dmitrievich; Dvorák: 'Cello concerto (Sound recording); Chopin, Frédéric; Liszt, Franz; Graffman, Gary; Cziffra, Georges; Szeryng, Henryk; Starker, Janos; Brahms, Johannes; Krips, Josef; Bernstein, Leonard; Liszt: Transcendental etudes (Sound recording); London Symphony; Kentner, Louis; Marlboro Festival Orchestra; Ravel, Maurice; Mozart: Piano concertos (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Casals, Pablo; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra; Monteux, Pierre; Ravel: Piano concerto (Sound recording); Schumann, Robert; Serkin, Rudolf; Schumann: Piano concertos (Sound recording); Shostakovich: Piano concerto #2 (Sound recording); Boult, Adrian, Sir; Symphony of the Air; Virtuosity in music; Susskind, Walter; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
100	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Vandernoot, André; Beethoven: Piano concerto #1; Piano concerto #2 (Sound recording); Brahms: Piano music (Sound recording); Franck, César; Lalo, Edouard; Gilels, Emil; Brahms, Johannes; Lalo: Piano concerto. Franck: Symphonic variations (Sound recording); Beethoven, Ludwig van; Gielen, Michael; Frugoni, Orazio; Paris Conservatory Orchestra; Performances; Firkusny, Rudolf PDF IMAGES
102	Jazz notes/Review Mingus By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Mingus, Charles; East Coasting (Sound recording); Jazz experiment (Sound recording); Mingus at the Bohemia (Sound recording); Modern jazz concert (Sound recording); New piano expressions (Sound recording); Performances; Pithecanthropus erectus (Sound recording); The clown (Sound recording); Trio (“Mingus Three”) (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
103-118	The new books/Review Occasionally endotic By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Ellis, A.E.; Mehdevi, Anne Sinclair; Kilbracken, John Raymond Godley, Baron; Rochefort, Christiane; Stacton, David; Don Chato (Book); Maraini, Fosco; Garrett, George P.; Humes, H.L.; I shall not hear the nightingale (Book); Khushwant Singh; Dermoût, Maria; Meeting with Japan (Book); Men die (Book); Moscow gatecrash (Book); Segaki (Book); The finished man (Book); The rack (Book); Warrior's rest (Book); Yesterday (Book) PDF IMAGES
118-122	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A hero for Leanda (Book); Nevins, Allan; Garve, Andrew; Clash of cavalry: the battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863 (Book); Ding dong bell (Book); Fisher, Ed; Ed Fisher's first folio (Book); Downey, Fairfax Davis; Stewart, George Rippey; Howe, Helen; Reilly, Helen; Pickett's charge (Book); Allen, Reginald; See the forest (Book); Pfoutz, Shirley; The fires of autumn (Book); The first night Gilbert and Sullivan (Book); The war for the Union: the improvised war 1861-1862 (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
122-123	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A dream of governors (Book); Albert P. Ryder (Book); Churchill, Allen; Apples from Shinar (Book); Howes, Barbara; Galler, David; Goossen, E.C.; Porter, Fairfield; O'Hara, Frank; Graffiti (Book); May, Henry Farnham; Plutzik, Hyam; Jackson Pollock (Book); Wright, James Arlington; Cameron, James; Hoskins, Katherine; Light and dark (Book); Goodrich, Lloyd; Simpson, Louis Aston Marantz; 1914 (Book); Out in the open (Book); Guthrie, Ramon; Whittemore, Reed; Saint Judas (Book); Stuart Davis (Book); The end of American innocence (Book); The good years: from 1900 to the First World War (Book); The improper Bohemians (Book); The self-made man and other poems (Book); Hess, Thomas B.; Thomas Eakins (Book); Walls and distances (Book); Lord, Walter; Willem de Kooning (Book); Winslow Homer (Book) PDF IMAGES
125-190	Collection Writing in America PDF IMAGES
126	Article [Untitled Article] By Robert B. Silvers SEE ALSO: “Writing in America” (Harper's); Written communication PDF IMAGES
127-131	Article The alone generation: A comment on the fiction of the 'fifties By Alfred Kazin SEE ALSO: Beat generation; Nineteen fifties PDF IMAGES
132-137	Article The writer and Hollywood By Budd Schulberg SEE ALSO: Artistic collaboration; Schulberg, Budd; Career as motion picture director; Career as screenwriter; Kazan, Elia; Los Angeles; Motion picture authorship; Motion picture producers and directors; Screenwriters PDF IMAGES
138-143	Article The decline of book reviewing By Elizabeth Hardwick SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Book reviewing; English newspapers; Sections, columns, etc. PDF IMAGES
143	Article The writer's task By Bernard Malamud SEE ALSO: Authors and readers; Literature and society PDF IMAGES
144-150	Article How and why I write the costume novel By Frank Yerby SEE ALSO: Best sellers; Popular literature; Reading interests; Sex in literature PDF IMAGES
150	Article Novel writing as a career By Merle Miller PDF IMAGES
151-157	Article The lost art of writing for television By Vance Nye Bourjaily SEE ALSO: Technique; Television authorship; Television broadcasting policy; Television plays, American PDF IMAGES
158-161	Article On the teaching of writing By Archibald MacLeish SEE ALSO: Cambridge; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Creative writing (Higher education); Curricula; Harvard University PDF IMAGES
162-166	Article Which side of the Atlantic? By C.P. (Charles Percy) Snow SEE ALSO: American influences; American literature; College teachers as authors; English influences; English literature PDF IMAGES
167-172	Article Why American plays are not literature By Robert Sanford Brustein SEE ALSO: American drama; Theater and society PDF IMAGES
173-179	Article American poetry's silver age By Stanley Kunitz SEE ALSO: American poetry PDF IMAGES
180-182	Article The delights of literary lecturing By Kingsley Amis SEE ALSO: Beat generation; Kerouac, Jack; Lectures and lecturing; Oratory PDF IMAGES
183-190	Article Letter to a young man about to enter publishing SEE ALSO: Authors and publishers; Booksellers and bookselling; Paperback wholesalers; Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES