Harper's Magazine: July 1962

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July 1962

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	Illustration [Cover art] By George Samerjan PDF IMAGES
6-8	Letters/Department Letters On The disturbing story of Project Chariot, from April 1962: Letter By John MacVane On A long and happy life, from April 1962: Letter By Laurence Stallings On The Kennedys move in on Dixie, from May 1962: Letter By John V. Lindsay Letter By Robert L.T. Smith Letter By Louis E. Lomax Letter By D.T. Currey On Love or marriage?, from May 1962: Letter By Hedi Freund Letter By Dorothy Nesbitt Letter By Ron Limbaugh On A cure for political fund-raising, from May 1962: Letter By Jacob Goldberg On Peaceful coexistence with rattlesnakes, from May 1962: Letter By J. Frank Dobie On Will the big magazines kill each other?, from May 1962: Letter By Will Yolen Letter By Laurence B. Johnson Letter By Sidney L. James On The new adults, from May 1962: Letter By R. Hopkins Holmberg PDF IMAGES
12-19	The editor's easy chair/Article What the Negro needs most: A First Class Citizens' Council By John Fischer SEE ALSO: African American civic leaders; Civil Rights; Segregation PDF IMAGES
20-25	After hours/Article “Seattle will never be the same . . .” By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Arts facilities; Buildings, structures, etc.; Public architecture; Seattle; Seattle (Wash.); Washington (State) PDF IMAGES
24	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
25	After hours/Article The soft buy SEE ALSO: Etiquette for women; Shopping PDF IMAGES
27-34	Article A new weapon to get better TV By Bernard Babington Smith SEE ALSO: Documentary television programs; Television; Television broadcasting policy; Television programs; Television programs, Public service PDF IMAGES
35-36	Article The day Rembrandt went public By Arnold M. Auerbach SEE ALSO: Marketing PDF IMAGES
37-41	Article On magnanimity By C.P. (Charles Percy) Snow SEE ALSO: Career in mathematics; Developing countries; Hardy, G.H. (Godfrey Harold); International relations; National characteristics, British PDF IMAGES
42-44	Article Saturday belongs to the palomia By Daniel Garza SEE ALSO: Agricultural laborers, Foreign; Ethnic identity; Mexican Americans; Mexicans PDF IMAGES
45-52	Article Washington's unseen powerhouse: David Bell and his budgeteers By Hobart Rowen SEE ALSO: Career as director of Bureau of the Budget; Career as U.S. president; Bell, David E.; Government spending policy; Kennedy, John F.; Officials and employees; Staff; Tax and expenditure limitations; United States. Bureau of the Budget PDF IMAGES
48	Poem Many happy returns By Laurence Lerner PDF IMAGES
53-58	Article Car snobs, commuters, and chaos By C.W. (Charles William) Griffin SEE ALSO: Automobile drivers; Commuters; Highway planning; Local transit; Urban transportation policy PDF IMAGES
58	Article Try a seat belt SEE ALSO: Cycling PDF IMAGES
59-64	Article Notes from Baffin Island By Mary Jean Kempner SEE ALSO: Eskimos; Homes and haunts—Northwest Territories—Baffin Island; Houston, James A.; Northwest Territories; Sealing PDF IMAGES
65-71	Article The trouble with textbooks By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Educational publishing; Readability; Textbook bias; Textbooks PDF IMAGES
72-76	Fiction The other room By James Thurber PDF IMAGES
77-81	Article That Mrs. Stevens: The animals' best friend By Faubion Bowers SEE ALSO: Animal welfare; Career as lobbyist for animal welfare; Stevens, Christine; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses PDF IMAGES
81	Poem Faithful reader By John Holmes PDF IMAGES
84-85	Public and personal/Article Farewell and hail By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as Harper's Washington correspondent; Career as U.S. congressman; Garner, John Nance; McCormack, John W.; Leadership; 1961-1963; Rayburn, Sam; United States. Congress. House; White, William Smith PDF IMAGES
86-92	The new books/Review An American royal personage By Elizabeth Hardwick SEE ALSO: Kazin, Alfred; Another country (Book); Contemporaries (Book); Wilson, Edmund; Grunwald, Henry A. (Henry Anatole); Baldwin, James; Letting go (Book); Patriotic gore: studies in the literature of the American Civil War (Sound recording); Roth, Philip; Salinger: a critical portrait (Book) PDF IMAGES
92-94	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Dale, Alan; Lindbergh, Anne Morrow; Between the planets (Book); Davis, Burke; Dearly beloved (Book); Early man in the New World (Book); Bowen, Elizabeth; Watson, Fletcher G. (Fletcher Guard); Grand Canyon (Book); Great battles of history (Book); Baldwin, Hanson Weightman; Borges, Jorge Luis; Hester, Joseph A.; Kraft, Joseph; Krutch, Joseph Wood; Macgowan, Kenneth; Labyrinths: selected stories and other writings (Book); Lafore, Laurence Davis; Learner's permit (Book); Kronenberger, Louis; Novelists on novelists (Book); Observations and experiments in natural history (Book); Puffins (Book); Lockley, R. M. (Ronald Mathias); Red sun rising: the siege of Port Arthur (Book); Hargreaves, Reginald; Asprey, Robert B.; Seven winters and afterthoughts, memories of a Dublin childhood and pieces on writing (Book); The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse campaign (Book); The first battle of the Marne (Book); The grand design: from Common Market to Atlantic partnership (Book) PDF IMAGES
94	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A history of American business (Book); Queen, Ellery; Ellery Queen: to be read before midnight (Book); Coxe, George Harmon; Wescott, Glenway; Images of truth (Book); Jones, James; Yaffe, James; Weidman, Jerome; Chamberlain, John; Mission of fear (Book); Mister Margolies (Book); Highsmith, Patricia; Ruark, Robert Chester; Gulick, Robert Hans van; Ellin, Stanley; The Chinese nail murders (Book); The cry of the owl (Book); The Panama portrait (Book); The sound of bow bells (Book); The thin red line (Book); Uhuru (Book) PDF IMAGES
95-96	Music in the round/Review Some fallacies about stereo By Discus SEE ALSO: Schnabel, Artur; Gilels, Emil; Equipment and supplies; Schubert, Franz; Performances; Recording and reproducing; Schubert: Grand duo (Sound recording); Schubert: Sonata in D, op. 53 (Sound recording); Schubert: Trout quintet (Sound recording); Sound; Sound recording industry; Richter, Sviatoslav PDF IMAGES
96	Jazz notes/Review The rhapsody By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Ormandy, Eugene; Gershwin, George; Jazz; Pennario, Leonard; 1961-1970; Levant, Oscar; Whiteman, Paul; Paul Whiteman conducts George Gershwin (Sound recording); Performances; Philadelphia Orchestra; Rhapsody in blue (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES