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January 1960

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Guided missiles PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On The decline of book reviewing, from October 1959: Letter By Alfred A. Knopf Letter By Laura Scott Meyers Letter By Frank R. Shea Letter By Jr. and Floyd Zulli Letter By “The Editors” On How and why I write the costume novel, from October 1959: Letter By George Starbuck On American poetry's silver age, from October 1959: Letter By George Starbuck On Medicine man from Alabama, from November 1959: Letter By Mike Gorman On Damp stamp, from November 1959: Letter By Harland Manchester PDF IMAGES
12-21	The editor's easy chair/Article New hope for television? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Journalistic ethics; Television advertising; Television broadcasting policy; Television programs PDF IMAGES
22-25	After hours/Article The erosion of Detroit By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Architecture; Buildings, structures, etc.; Career as architect for General Motors Technical Center; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Saarinen, Eero; Historic preservation PDF IMAGES
27-29	Article Good-by to the 'fifties—and good riddance: The Stuffy Decade produced some of the most wonderful nonsense in history—but why didn't anybody laugh? By Eric Frederick Goldman SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; 1945-1960; 1953-1961; Nineteen fifties PDF IMAGES
30-37	Article Evelyn Waugh runs a fair By Edward R.F. Sheehan SEE ALSO: Sheehan, Edward R.F.; Waugh, Evelyn; Fairs; Homes and haunts; Journeys—England—Gloucestershire PDF IMAGES
38-45	Article The missile mess By Frank Gibney SEE ALSO: Artificial satellites; Astronautics, Military; Cold War; 1953-1961; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration PDF IMAGES
42	Poem Say which By Mark Van Doren PDF IMAGES
46-51	Article Last of the rugged individualists By Rigdon Wayne Kernodle SEE ALSO: Express highways; Mountain whites (Southern States); Textile factories; Urbanization PDF IMAGES
52-58	Article The many faces of communism: The theological society (part I) By Arthur Meier Schlesinger SEE ALSO: American literature; Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; Brainwashing; Career as Soviet premier; Communism; Communism and literature; Ideology; Journeys; Journeys—Soviet Union; 1945-1991; Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich; Chayefsky, Paddy; Societies, etc.; Soviet literature PDF IMAGES
59-66	Article The passing of the Paris flea market By Pierre Schneider SEE ALSO: Collectors and collecting; Paris (France) PDF IMAGES
67-71	Article The job the lawyers shirk By Harriet F. Pilpel SEE ALSO: Attorney and client; Law PDF IMAGES
72-75	Article High fidelity—to what? A musician looks at recorded music By Hubert Lamb SEE ALSO: High-fidelity sound systems; Music appreciation; Music audiences PDF IMAGES
75	Poem On the death of friends in childhood By Donald Rodney Justice PDF IMAGES
76-80	Fiction The rain horse By Ted Hughes PDF IMAGES
86-88	Article Public women By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Suffrage; Women in politics PDF IMAGES
89-94	The new books/Review Of biography and biographers By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Albert P. Ryder (Book); Franklin, Benjamin; Goossen, E.C.; Edison (Book); Porter, Fairfield; O'Hara, Frank; From the Morgenthau diaries (Book); Kovágó, József; Jackson Pollock (Book); James Joyce (Book); John Jay Chapman: an American mind (Book); Brinnin, John Malcolm; Blum, John Morton; John Paul Jones (Book); Labaree, Leonard Woods; Goodrich, Lloyd; Josephson, Matthew; Halasz, Nicholas; Nobel (Book); Prodigal Puritan: a life of Delia Bacon (Book); Hovey, Richard B. (Richard Bennett); Ellmann, Richard; Morison, Samuel Eliot; Stuart Taylor (Book); The papers of Benjamin Franklin (Book); The third rose (Book); Hess, Thomas B.; Thomas Eakins (Book); Hopkins, Vivian C.; Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield Jenks); Willem de Kooning (Book); Winslow Homer (Book); You are all alone (Book) PDF IMAGES
94-97	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Ryan, Cornelius; Gilligan, Edmund; Michener, James A. (James Albert); Japanese prints from the early masters to the modern (Book); Berry, John; Krishna Fluting (Book); Auerbach, M. Morton; My earth, my sea (Book); Observations (Book); Nash, Ogden; Avedon, Richard; Morison, Samuel Eliot; Churchill, Winston, Sir; The conservative illusion (Book); The liberation of the Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas 1944-1945 (Book); The longest day (Book); The second world war (Book); Capote, Truman; Verses from 1929 on (Book) PDF IMAGES
97	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Mykle, Agnar; An occupation for a gentleman (Book); Ewen, David; Berry, Don; Evelyn Waugh: portrait of an artist (Book); Stopp, Frederick John; Warburg, Fredric; Here lies the heart (Book); Jerome Kern: a biography (Book); Leggett, John; Lasso round the moon (Book); Acosta, Mercedes de; Pillar of salt (Book); Epstein, Seymour; Trask (Book); Wilder Stone (Book) PDF IMAGES
98-100	Music in the round/Review Down the river with Beecham By Discus SEE ALSO: Honegger, Arthur; Bartók, Béla; Ormandy, Eugene; Poulenc, Francis; Werner, Fritz; Fauré, Gabriel; Handel, George Frideric; Jouineau, Jacques; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Messiah (Sound recording); Wöldike, Mogens; Philadelphia Orchestra; Poulenc: Litanies à la vierge voir. Fauré: Messe basse; Tantum ergo. Bartók: Six chants populaires hongrois. Honegger: Cantique de pâques (Sound recording); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; St. Matthew passions (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
100	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Bach: Two-part inventions; Three-part inventions #1, #2, #5, #11, #13, #14, #15 (Sound recording); Beethoven: Piano concerto #3 (Sound recording); Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Performances; Vienna Philharmonia; Landowska, Wanda; Backhaus, Wilhelm PDF IMAGES Jazz notes/Review Benny By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: B.G. in hi fi (Sound recording); Goodma Goodman, Benny; Goodman, Benny; Benny rides again (Sound recording); Happy session (Sound recording); Jazz; 1951-1960; The Benny Goodman treasure chest (Sound recording); Tribute to Benny Goodman (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES [Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES