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September 1960

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Dick Schiffer and Mervin Gilbert SEE ALSO: Puppets PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On The far-out pianist, from June 1960: Note/correction On Letters, from July 1960: Letter By Hazel Williams Letter By J. Lipp Letter By Rev. William Love Letter By Joan McKeeman Letter By “The Editors” On Can we afford to be healthy?, from July 1960: Letter By Rockwell D. Hunt Letter By “A Federal Employee” Letter By Mrs. George J. Hepp On Politics for a new generation, from July 1960: Letter By Rinehart S. Potts Letter By Reo M. Christenson Letter By Walter W. Adams On Ridding the roads of the murderous 4%, from July 1960: Letter By Burton Wilcox Letter By Frances Clark On Rand, from July 1960: Letter By Stephen R. Best Letter By Marc Pilisuk On The ballot on billboards, from July 1960: Letter By T.S. Repplier Letter By Herbert H.(Herbert Huntington) Smith PDF IMAGES
12-19	The editor's easy chair/Article Not really a sin By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Commuting traffic; Socialism; Transportation and state PDF IMAGES
19	The editor's easy chair/Article Laurels to Dr. Jaffe By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Communication policy; Corrupt practices; Licenses; Television broadcasting; United States. Federal Communications Commission PDF IMAGES
20-26	After hours/Article The overt persuaders By Eleanor Spencer Stone Perényi SEE ALSO: Business entertaining; Editors; Public Relations PDF IMAGES
26	After hours/Article Hokinson's girls revisited By William North Jayme SEE ALSO: Europe, Western; Transatlantic voyages PDF IMAGES
29-36	Article Heroic Israel today: The legend and the facts By Sidney Hyman SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, American; Israel; National characteristics, Israeli PDF IMAGES
35	Poem Do I not rage? By John Holmes PDF IMAGES
37-40	Article Afternoon with the space people By Hal Draper SEE ALSO: Life on other planets; Unidentified flying objects PDF IMAGES
41-48	Article A proposition for women By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Day care centers; Dual-career families; Housewives; Married women; Service, Compulsory non-military; Working mothers PDF IMAGES
49-54	Illustration Steinberg, U.S.A. By Saul Steinberg SEE ALSO: Buildings, structures, etc. PDF IMAGES
55-59	Article Epilepsy and the law By Howard D. (Howard Douglas) Fabing SEE ALSO: Automobile drivers; Epilepsy; Epileptics; Genetic aspects; Legal status, laws, etc.; Medical examinations; Sterilization, Eugenic PDF IMAGES
59	Poem September: The final word By Hollis Spurgeon Summers PDF IMAGES
60-64	Article The drunken baboon By Bill McFall SEE ALSO: Animal training; Baboons; Human-animal relationships; Somalia PDF IMAGES
61	Poem House wife By Kate Barnes PDF IMAGES
65-68	Article The soft life in Italy By Robert Neville SEE ALSO: Fellini, Federico; La dolce vita (Motion picture); Motion pictures; Motion pictures, Italian; Portraits; Production and direction; Sex in motion pictures PDF IMAGES
69-73	Fiction It's been a long snow: A story By John Medelman PDF IMAGES
79-84	Article America's most powerful private club By Hobart Rowen SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Capitalists and financiers; Career as organizer of Business Advisory Council; Career as U.S. senator; Conflict of interests; Celler, Emanuel; Industrial policy; Industrialists; Legislative hearings; Weinberg, Sidney J. (Sidney James) PDF IMAGES
85-90	Article How good is TV at its best? More than plenty of drama (the second of two articles) By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Film and video adaptations; Operas; Production and direction; Television; Television and the arts; Television broadcasting policy; Television plays PDF IMAGES
90	Article Saving radiance? By E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White SEE ALSO: Popular culture; Television broadcasting PDF IMAGES
92-95	Public and personal/Article Forecast for the next Congress By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Elections, 1960; 1953-1961; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
96-104	The new books/Review Process and thing: A year of poetry By Stanley Kunitz SEE ALSO: A water walk by Villa d'Este (Book); A winter come, a summer gone (1946-60) (Book); Bosquet, Alain; American poetry; Howes, Barbara; Collected poems (Book); Schwartz, Delmore; Levertov, Denise; Allen, Donald Merriam; Pound, Ezra; Heart's needle (Book); Homage to Clio (Book); Moss, Howard; Cunningham, J.V. (James Vincent); Garrigue, Jean; Ciardi, John; Life studies (Book); Light and dark (Book); Lupercal (Book); Moore, Marianne; 39 poems (Book); O to be a dragon (Book); Lowell, Robert; Summer knowledge (Book); Hughes, Ted; The exclusions of a rhyme (Book); The new American poetry 1945-1960 (Book); Thrones 96-109 de los cantares (Book); Trente-cinq jeunes poètes américains (Book); Snodgrass, W.D. (William De Witt); Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh); With eyes at the back of our heads (Book); Winters, Yvor PDF IMAGES
102	The new books/Review Check list of additional titles By Stanley Kunitz SEE ALSO: A dream of governors (Book); A form of women (Book); American poetry; Sexton, Anne; Bone thoughts (Book); Hall, Carol; Logue, Christopher; Collected poems (Book); Galler, David; Justice, Donald Rodney; Kinnell, Galway; Starbuck, George; Ghosts of the heart (Book); Graffiti (Book); Carruth, Hayden; In an iridescent time (Book); Wright, James Arlington; John Logan; Koch, Kenneth; Ko, or a season on earth (Book); Durrell, Lawrence; Simpson, Louis Aston Marantz; Van Doren, Mark; Morning worship and other poems (Book); Portrait of your niece (Book); Hodgson, Ralph; Guthrie, Ramon; Whittemore, Reed; Creeley, Robert; Duncan, Robert Edward; Campbell, Roy; Stone, Ruth; Saint Judas (Book); Scrimshaw (Book); Selected poems (Book); Songs (Book); The collected poems of Roy Campbell (Book); The crow and the heart (Book); The self-made man (Book); The skylark and other poems (Book); The summer anniversaries (Book); To Bedlam and part way back (Book); Walls and distances (Book); What a kingdom it was (Book); Scott, Winfield Townley PDF IMAGES
104-105	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A nation reborn: a personal account of the roles played by Weizmann, Bevin, and Ben-Gurion in the story of Israel (Book); Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples); Kinney, Harrison; Has anybody seen my father? (Book); Alpert, Hollis; Chase, Mary Ellen; Crossman, Richard H.S.; Some other time (Book); The four loves (Book); The lovely ambition (Book); Williams, Vinnie; Walk Egypt (Book) PDF IMAGES
105	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Huxley, Aldous; Billy, André; MacLeish, Archibald; Biography; Fiedler, Leslie A.; No! In thunder (Book); On art and artists (Book); Quennell, Peter; Poetry and experience (Book); Portrait of Max (Book); Behrman, S.N.; Beerbohm, Max, Sir; Read, Herbert, Sir; The form of things unknown (Book); The Goncourt brothers (Book); The sign of the fish: recollections and digressions (Book) PDF IMAGES
106-109	Music in the round/Review Violinistics—natural and noble By Discus SEE ALSO: Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich; Berlin Radio Symphony; Brahms: Violin sonata in D minor. Bach: Partita in E (Sound recording); Bruch: Violin concerto in G minor. Glazunov: Violin concerto in A minor (Sound recording); Franck, César; Debussy, Claude; Morini, Erica; Fricsay, Ferenc; Franck: A major sonata. Brahms: Violin sonata in D minor (Sound recording); Franck: A major sonata. Dubussy: Violin sonata (Sound recording); Kreisler, Fritz; Stern, Isaac; Laredo, Jaime; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Brahms, Johannes; Bruch, Max; Performances; Menuhin, Yehudi PDF IMAGES
109	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Fiedler, Arthur; Boston Pops Orchestra; Rossini, Gioacchino; Hindemith: Symphony for band; Concerto music for strings and brass (Sound recording); Ibert, Jacques; Respighi, Ottorino; Hindemith, Paul; Philharmonia Orchestra; Rossini-Respighi: La boutique fantasque. Ibert: Divertissement (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
110	Jazz notes/Review Impresario By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; Hammond, John; 1951-1960; Spirituals to swing (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES