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February 1961

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	Illustration [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Marbles (Game objects) PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On Why the crime syndicate can't be touched, from November 1960: Letter By H.J. Anslinger Letter By Gerald L. Goettel Letter By “The Editors” On “Listen, Yankee”, from December 1960: Letter By Herminio Portell-Vila Letter By Charles O. Porter Letter By Ira B. Joralemon Letter By Charles S. Grant Letter By Stan Weisberger Letter By Rafael Lecuona Letter By John W. Dalton On Wood odors, from December 1960: Letter By Fred Lape Letter By Raymond M. Bancroft Letter By Rena V. Grant On Repertory fever, from December 1960: Letter By Hal Pockriss On A Christian view of the future, from December 1960: Letter By Marjorie Weinberg Letter By Donald N. Prismon Letter By Roger Brooks On Ten Christmas cards, and that's all, from December 1960: Letter By Jr. and Joseph C. Jurjevich Letter By “Name Withheld” Letter By Herbert S. Conrad PDF IMAGES
14-26	The editor's easy chair/Article Agenda for the two Ks By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Arms control; Career as Soviet premier; Career as U.S. president; Disarmament; Kennedy, John F.; 1953-1985; 1961-1963; Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich; Verification PDF IMAGES
28-30	After hours/Article Hot property By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: American drama; Career in television production; O'Neill, Eugene; Film and video adaptations; Freedman, Lewis; Production and direction; Television; Television adaptations; Television plays, American PDF IMAGES
30-31	After hours/Article The cat, the squirrel, and the jays By Bertram Brownold SEE ALSO: Aggressive behavior in animals; Bird watching; Blue jay; Cats; Long Island; Squirrels PDF IMAGES
33-42	Article The dangerous road before Martin Luther King By James Baldwin SEE ALSO: African American civic leaders; Biography; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Montgomery (Ala.); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Portraits; Race discrimination PDF IMAGES
43	Fiction The frozen moose: A story By Garfield Scrog PDF IMAGES
44-50	Article Can de Gaulle avoid a civil war? Letter to a French friend By George Steiner SEE ALSO: Africa; Algeria; Career as French president; Gaulle, Charles de; Colonies; 1958-; Revolution, 1954-1962 PDF IMAGES
49	Poem The journey: For Jane at thirteen By Maxine Kumin PDF IMAGES
51	Poem The character of Washington By Paul Goodman PDF IMAGES
52-56	Article Surgery for strokes By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Cerebrovascular disease; Surgery; Trephining PDF IMAGES
57-62	Article Hoodlum priest and respectable convicts By William Krasner SEE ALSO: Career as Jesuit priest; Catholic Church; Clark, Charles Dismas; Church work with prisoners; Criminals; Portraits; Rehabilitation; Saint Louis PDF IMAGES
62	Poem Memento By Gilbert Highet PDF IMAGES
63-68	Article Mr. Justice Black, the Supreme Court, and Bill of Rights By Charles Lund Black SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. Supreme Court justice; Constitutional law; Freedom of speech; Black, Hugo LaFayette; United States. Constitution. 1st-10th Amendments; United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
73-77	Article Bruno Walter: The working musician of Beverly Hills By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Aged men; Beverly Hills; Walter, Bruno; Career in conducting; Conducting; Conductors (Music); Portraits; Recording and reproducing; Sound PDF IMAGES
78-88	Article Stranded in Kabul By Santha Rama Rau SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; East Indians; Hotels; Journeys—Afghanistan—Kabul; Kabul; Kabul (Afghanistan); Russians; Rama Rau, Santha PDF IMAGES
89-93	Fiction Knate: A story By Marcel Aymé PDF IMAGES
94-99	Public and personal/Article The razor's edge for Nixon and the GOP By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Goldwater, Barry; Career in politics; 1961-1963; Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich); The Republican Party; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
100-105	The new books/Review History books of 1960 By Garrett Mattingly SEE ALSO: A Diderot pictorial encyclopedia of trades and industry (Book); A study in Austrian intellectual history from late baroque to romanticism (Book); A wind from the North (Book); Bettex, Albert (Albert W.); Duggan, Alfred Leo; An introduction to eighteenth century France (Book); Diffie, Bailey W. (Bailey Wallys); Bryher; Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Read, Conyers; Decision at Trafalgar (Book); Pope, Dudley; Bradford, Ernle Dusgate Selby; Bengtsson, Frans Gunnar; Frederick the Great (Book); Giotto and Assisi (Book); Harriet Martineau: a radical Victorian (Book); Carswell, John; Lough, John; Naylor, John; Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth (Book); Reiners, Ludwig; Madame de Genlis (Book); Irwin, Margaret; Lewis, Michael; Meiss, Millard; Prelude to empire (Book); Webb, R.K. (Robert Kiefer); Ram (Book); Unwin, Rayner; Kann, Robert A.; Ruan (Book); That great Lucifer (Book); The cunning of the dove (Book); The defeat of John Hawkins (Book); The discovery of the world (Book); The South Sea bubble (Book); The Spanish Armada (Book); The sword does not jest (Book); Wyndham, Violet; Waterloo (Book); Taylor, Winchcombe PDF IMAGES
105-107	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Taylor, Elizabeth; Waugh, Evelyn; Fowler, Gene; In a summer season (Book); Wheeler, Keith; Blythe, LeGette; Wheaton, Mabel Wolfe; Soldati, Mario; Peaceable Lane (Book); Matthiessen, Peter; Raditzer (Book); Skyline: a reporter's reminiscence of the 1920s (Book); The real Silvestri (Book); Thomas Wolfe and his family (Book); Tourist in Africa (Book) PDF IMAGES
107	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Hawkes, Alex D.; Carefree gardening (Book); Johnson, Charles C.; Wherry, Edgar Theodore; Encyclopedia of gardening (Book); Gardening; Growing for exhibiting (Book); Allen, Harold A.; Home orchid growing (Book); Hersey, Jean; Taylor, Norman; Orchids, their culture and botany (Book); Carleton, R. Milton; Northen, Rebecca Tyson; Lemmon, Robert Stell; The fern guide: northeastern and midland United States, and adjacent Canada (Book); Wildflowers of North America in full color (Book); Your garden soil (Book) PDF IMAGES
108-112	Music in the round/Review Two's company By Discus SEE ALSO: Toscanini, Arturo; Nilsson, Birgit; Walter, Bruno; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Siepi, Cesare; Valletti, Cesare; Die Fledermaus (Sound recording); Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Wächter, Eberhard; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Kunz, Erich; Leinsdorf, Erich; Bastianini, Ettore; Fernandi, Eugenio; Reiner, Fritz; Taddei, Giuseppe; Verdi, Giuseppe; Mahler, Gustav; Karajan, Herbert von; Sutherland, Joan; Strauss, Johann; Björling, Jussi; Price, Leontyne; Alva, Luigi; Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Sound recording); Miller, Mildred; Mozart: Don Giovanni (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Ackermann, Otto; Kletzki, Paul; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus; Sinionato; Serafin, Tulio; Verdi: Requiem (Sound recording); Vienna Philharmonia; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Berry, Walter; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
113	Jazz notes/Review Lessons By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; 1961-1970; Sound recording libraries; Allen, Steve; The jazz story (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES