Harper's Magazine: November 1959

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November 1959

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Dick Schiffer SEE ALSO: Vestals PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On The decline of book reviewing, from October 1959: Letter By Cass Canfield Letter By Elizabeth Hardwick On Why handle criminals with kid gloves?, from September 1959: Letter By Richard A. Myren On Music in the round, from September 1959: Letter By Laurence B. Johnson PDF IMAGES
16-23	The editor's easy chair/Article The city that hid itself: An archaeological mystery story By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Career in archaeology; Excavations (Archaeology); Greece; Lehmann, Karl; Samothrace Island; Samothrace Island (Greece) PDF IMAGES
24-31	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Whose vote counts most? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Apartheid; South Africa; Trials (Political crimes and offenses) PDF IMAGES
35-40	Article The next election is already rigged By Richard L. (Richard Lee) Strout SEE ALSO: Apportionment (Election law); Election districts; 1953-1961; Rural population PDF IMAGES
40	Poem Kind sir: These woods By Anne Sexton PDF IMAGES
41-47	Article Is it Judge Crater's body? A new clue in the most famous disappearance case of our century By Murray Teigh Bloom SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Investigation; Crater, Joseph Force; Missing persons; Portraits; Tammany Hall PDF IMAGES
48-49	Article The plague of the locus By Felicia Lamport SEE ALSO: Materials and instruments; Writing PDF IMAGES
50-55	Article The virgins and the empress By Elizabeth Bowen SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Livia, Empress, consort of Augustus, Emperor of Rome; Empresses; Homes and haunts; Rome; Vestals PDF IMAGES
56-63	Article The genteel tradition on a southern campus By David Boroff SEE ALSO: Alabama; Birmingham; Faculty; Small colleges PDF IMAGES
64-68	Fiction The blessing: A story By Hugh Nissenson PDF IMAGES
68-74	Article Fashions in medicine By H.S. Weichsel SEE ALSO: Burns and scalds; Health resorts; Homeopathic treatment; Hydrotherapy; Medical misconceptions; Sanatoriums; Transplantation; Tuberculosis PDF IMAGES
75	Poem The marooned By Robert Hillyer PDF IMAGES
76-79	Article Why today's teen-agers seem so different By Eugene Gilbert SEE ALSO: Adolescent psychology; Parent and teenager; Teenage consumers PDF IMAGES
80-89	Article Rebuilding the foreign service By James L. (James Lucian) McCamy SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. secretary of state; Career in U.S. State Department; Herter, Christian Archibald; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Foreign relations administration; Kennan, George Frost; Officials and employees; Murphy, Robert Cushman; Selection and appointment; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
83	Poem Battle hymn of the State Department By Reginald Heber PDF IMAGES
89	Poem Three poems By Samuel Menashe PDF IMAGES
90-94	Article Medicine man from Alabama By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Alabama; Career as U.S. senator; Health care reform; Hill, Lister; 1953-1961; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
96-100	After hours/Article Mr. Wright's museum By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Career as architect for Guggenheim Museum (New York, New York); Wright, Frank Lloyd; Guggenheim Museum (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
100-101	After hours/Article Damp stamp By Victor H. (Victor Hugo) Johnson SEE ALSO: Postage stamps PDF IMAGES
102-114	The new books/Review Faulkner, Nabokov, Hersey, Shirley Jackson, and some newcomers By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Davidson, Basil; Jones, Evan; Green water, green sky (Book); Half Moon Haven (Book); Hidden America (Book); Invitation to a beheading (Book); Hersey, John; Marty, Martin E.; Russ, Martin; Gallant, Mavis; Robbins, Roland Wells; Jackson, Shirley; The haunting of Hill House (Book); The lost cities of Africa (Book); The mansion (Book); The new shape of American religion (Book); The real life of Sebastian Knight (Book); The war lover (Book); Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich; Faulkner, William PDF IMAGES
114-121	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Rae Brooks SEE ALSO: Act one: an autobiography (Book); Adventures of a biographer (Book); Waugh, Alec; Burke, Billie; Hines, Bob; Shipp, Cameron; Bowen, Catherine Drinker; Thayer, Charles Wheeler; Porter, Cole; Magarshack, David; Diplomat (Book); Enright, Elizabeth; Williams, Garth; In praise of wine and certain other spirits (Book); Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich; Auchincloss, Louis; Sharp, Margery; Hart, Moss; Matthiessen, Peter; Pursuit of the prodigal (Book); The Cole Porter song book (Book); The rescuers (Book); The riddle of the fly and other stories (Book); Turgenev's literary reminiscences (Book); Wildlife in America (Book); With powder on my nose (Book) PDF IMAGES
122-126	Music in the round/Review The greatest living composer By Discus SEE ALSO: Brendel, Alfred; Zelka, Charlotte; Ansermet, Ernest; Fricsay, Ferenc; Markevitch, Igor; Stravinsky, Igor; Fuchs, Joseph; Smit, Leo; Rossi, Mario; Neoclassicism (Music); Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Paris Conservatory Orchestra; Performances; Monteux, Pierre; Stravinsky: Capriccio for piano and orchestra; Concerto for two solo pianos (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Chant du Rossignol (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Duo concertant for violin and piano (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Firebird (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Le Sacre (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Les Noces (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Petrouchka (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Renard; Apollon musagète (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Threni (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
126	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Toscanini, Arturo; Martinon, Jean; NBC Symphony; Paris Conservatory Orchestra; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Prokofieff: Symphony #5 (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto #1 in B flat minor (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
127	Jazz notes/Review Garner By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Garner, Erroll; Jazz; 1951-1960; Performances PDF IMAGES