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April 1961

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Robert Chesley Osborn and Ira Silberlicht SEE ALSO: Adversary system (Law); Justice, Administration of PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On Music in the 1950's, from November 1960: Letter By Harvard Hollenberg On The dangerous road before Martin Luther King, from February 1961: Letter By Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf Letter By Clarence L. Yancey On The frozen moose, from February 1961: Letter By Jr. and Emmett Peter Letter By “The Editors” On Hoodlum priest and respectable convicts, from February 1961: Letter By Fanny S.H. Hall On Stranded in Kabul, from February 1961: Letter By Robert H. Paschall On Agenda for the two Ks, from February 1961: Letter By Robert W. Kastenmeier Letter By Jacquard H. Rothschild Letter By Jr. and Harold C. McKinney Letter By Peter Salmon On The cat, the squirrel, and the jays, from February 1961: Letter By Mrs. George L. Hopps PDF IMAGES
14-21	The editor's easy chair/Article The sure 'nuff truth about the Civil War By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Confederate States of America; Grandfathers; Personal narratives PDF IMAGES
22-29	After hours/Article Travel notes from Harper's readers By Carleton B. Chapman, Hermine I. Popper, W.E., Mrs. Hulme, Robert H., Mrs. Ketchum, Roland Ladd, Mrs. Osgood, Philip A. Reavis, Elizabeth George Foulke, Douglas Greenwald, Paula M.(Paula Mary) Strain, George Doherty Bond, Mabel Bennett, Paul N., Mrs. Ylvisaker, Robert E. Treybal, David Steinman, James T., Jr. Seaver, Henry Julian Abraham, Jane McConnell, Ethel Perin, E.M., Mrs. Grabbe, and Edgar B., Mrs. Lehman SEE ALSO: Africa, East; Camping; Circulation; Denmark; Europe, Western; Readership surveys; Restaurants; Voyages and travels PDF IMAGES
28	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
31-36	Article Trial by combat in American courts By David Dressler SEE ALSO: Adversary system (Law); Criminal justice, Administration of; Examination of witnesses; Law reform PDF IMAGES
37-39	Article Can we bring back the old-fashioned bank robber? By Malcolm Bradbury SEE ALSO: Bank robberies; Banks and banking; Finance, Personal PDF IMAGES
40-45	Article Adenauer and McCloy: The godfathers of the new Germany (first of two articles) By Dean Acheson SEE ALSO: Career as military governor of West Germany; Career as U.S. high commissioner in West Germany; Career as U.S. secretary of state; Career as West German chancellor; Acheson, Dean; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Diplomats; Germany (West); McCloy, John Jay; Adenauer, Konrad; Clay, Lucius D.; Portraits; Prime ministers PDF IMAGES
46-52	Article The good slum schools By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Ability grouping in education; Aims and objectives; Curricula; Intelligence tests; Kansas City; School integration; Validity PDF IMAGES
53-58	Article Africans beat on our college doors By Albert G. Sims SEE ALSO: Administration; Africa; African students; Career in educational fund raising; Colonies; Educational fund raising; Kenya; Student exchange programs; To 1963; Mboya, Tom PDF IMAGES
58	Article Franklin on deterrence By Harold George, Sir Nicolson SEE ALSO: Balloon ascensions; Franklin, Benjamin; Passy; Quotations; Technological forecasting PDF IMAGES
59-66	Fiction A corner of a foreign jail: A story By Alexis Ladas PDF IMAGES
66	Poem Late winter birthday By Robert Mezey PDF IMAGES
67-76	Article Writing the “Inside” books: Part II By John Gunther SEE ALSO: Biography; Inside Africa (Book); Inside U.S.A. (Book); Interviewing in journalism; Gunther, John; Journalists; Note-taking; Reportage literature, American; Travel writing PDF IMAGES
77-79	Article The chicken explosion By George Henry Soule SEE ALSO: Automation; Chicken industry PDF IMAGES
80-84	Article How to run a small foundation By Adam Yarmolinsky SEE ALSO: Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Endowment of research PDF IMAGES
85-90	Article The happiest creatures on earth? By Ruth Brecher and Edward M. Brecher SEE ALSO: Behavior modification; Human experimentation in psychology; Medical ethics PDF IMAGES
88	Poem Merchant of Rio By Elizabeth (Chesley) Baity PDF IMAGES
92-97	Public and personal/Article Kennedy's seven rules for handling the press By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Career as White House press secretary; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; Salinger, Pierre; Press conferences PDF IMAGES
96	Notice The mood of the Russian people SEE ALSO: 1917-1970; Special numbers; “The mood of the Russian people” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES
97	Collection Two poems By Samuel Menashe PDF IMAGES Poem Sudden shadow By Samuel Menashe PDF IMAGES Poem Pastoral By Samuel Menashe PDF IMAGES
98-104	The new books/Review Reno roundup . . . Norfolk cottage . . . and points between By Alan Pryce-Jones SEE ALSO: A hermit disclosed (Book); A middle class education (Book); Camus, Albert; Wesker, Arnold; Miller, Arthur; Brecht, Bertolt; Holman-Hunt, Diana; Bentley, Eric; Juenger, Ernst; Dos Passos, John; Midcentury (Book); My grandmothers and I (Book); Narayan, R.K.; Trevelyan, Raleigh; Resistance, rebellion, and death (Book); Seven plays by Bertolt Brecht (Book); The glass bees (Book); The man-eater of Malgudi (Book); The misfits (Book); The Wesker trilogy (Book); Sheed, Wilfrid PDF IMAGES
104-107	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A winter's tale (Book); Eby, Cecil D.; Charles Neider; MacKenzie, Donald; Stillman, Edmund O.; Remington, Frederic; Frederic Remington's own West (Book); McCracken, Harold; Harrer, Heinrich; Bjerre, Jens; Godden, Jon; Kalahari (Book); Knife edge (Book); Stevens, Lauren R.; Twain, Mark; Thubten Jigme Norbu, 1922-; Porte Crayon: the life of David Hunter Strother, writer of the Old South (Book); Revolutionary road (Book); Yates, Richard; The double axe (Book); The new politics: America and the end of the postwar world (Book); The travels of Mark Twain (Book); Tibet is my country: the autobiography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, brother of the Dalai Lama (Book); Pfaff, William PDF IMAGES
107-108	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Between past and future: six exercises in political thought (Book); Builders of emerging nations (Book); Europe and America: the western world in modern times (Book); Kennan, George Frost; Freund, Gerald; Germany between two worlds (Book); Arendt, Hannah; Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin (Book); Bloom, Solomon F. (Solomon Frank); Tetens, T.H.; The new Germany and the old Nazis (Book); Dean, Vera Micheles PDF IMAGES
108	Books in brief/Article A special exchange By John Fischer SEE ALSO: West, Anthony; Correspondence; Criticism; Critics; Hardwick, Elizabeth; Novelists, American; The trend is up (Book) PDF IMAGES
109-112	Music in the round/Review Copland now By Discus SEE ALSO: Copland, Aaron; Copland: Piano variations; Piano fantasy (Sound recording); Criticism and interpretation; Bernstein, Leonard; New York Philharmonic; Performances; The second hurricane (Book); Masselos, William PDF IMAGES
112	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Brahms: Piano concerto #2 in B flat (Sound recording); Budapest String Quartet; Chicago Symphony; Leinsdorf, Erich; Brahms, Johannes; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Performances; Richter, Sviatoslav PDF IMAGES Jazz notes/Review Mr. R & Mr. B By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Bernstein plays Brubeck plays Bernstein (Sound recording); Clayton, Buck; Brubeck, Dave; Dave Brubeck Quartet; Jazz; Rushing, Jimmy; Bernstein, Leonard; 1961-1970; New York Philharmonic; Performances; The jazz odyssey of James Rushing Esq. (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES