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1940
JANUARY
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
War and the verities
by
Ellsworth Barnard
The future of Eleanor Roosevelt
by
Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
War and the steel ghost towns
by
Harold J. Ruttenberg
and
Stanley H. Ruttenberg
The trail of the rooster
by
Leonard Bacon
The problem of influenza
by
George W. (George William) Gray
Fiction
Mr. Penfold
by
H.E. (Herbert Ernest) Bates
After many a summer:
A novel in five parts (part three)
by
Aldous Huxley
FEBRUARY
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
Capital not wanted:
American business rolls its own
by
Stuart Chase
Dover Beach revisited:
A new fable for critics
by
Theodore Morrison
Geography goes fluid
by
Earl Parker Hanson
The captain of the cargo
by
Frances Parkinson Keyes
and
Katharine McKiever
Where does television belong?
by
Irving Fiske
Fiction
The darkroom
by
Roderick Lull
After many a summer:
A novel in five parts (part four)
by
Aldous Huxley
Poetry
When Mars was near the earth
by
Lawrence Lee
MARCH
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
The long watch in England
by
Arline Löhrke
and
Eugene William Löhrke
The war and the British middle class
by
Ivor John Carnegie Brown
Office women and sex antagonism
by
Elisabeth Cushman
Shadow over Wall Street
by
Stuart Chase
Stefansson:
Twenty years after
by
Earl Parker Hanson
Fiction
Shadow of a girl
by
E.B. Ashton
After many a summer:
A novel in five parts (part five)
by
Aldous Huxley
Poetry
Mary Kendig
by
Martha Keller
Memo
by
Gilbert Maxwell
Traveler
by
Edward Ronald Weismiller
APRIL
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
The war and America
by
Elmer Holmes Davis
News-letters:
A revolution in journalism
by
Ferdinand Lundberg
Now for the 1940 census
by
Richard Gibson Hubler
Our job in the Far East
by
Nathaniel Peffer
Soap opera
by
Merrill Denison
Fiction
That woman
by
Nancy Hale
Dancing lesson
by
Elizabeth Enright
Poetry
Spring in the wood
by
Edward Ronald Weismiller
Four country poems
by
Jesse Stuart
Sonnet:
To N. in sickness
by
Edward Lewis Davison
Wise fool's paradise
by
David Morton
MAY
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
An Australian-American axis?
by
C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan
Should we buy Greenland?
by
Earl Parker Hanson
A small boy in a female college:
Life and learning in the old South, 1894 (part I)
by
John Andrew Rice
The American communists
by
Dale Kramer
Wheeler of Montana
by
Richard L. (Richard Lewis) Neuberger
Fiction
A ticket to Mexico
by
Frances Crane
Pastoral
by
Elizabeth Enright
Poetry
Silence
by
Daniel Whitehead Hicky
JUNE
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
Enter atomic power
by
John J. (John Joseph) O'Neill
My day
by
E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
Fiction
Scorn and comfort
by
Christopher La Farge
Andy and the village virus
by
Philip Everett Curtiss
Poetry
Letter to heroes
by
Robert Nathan
JULY
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
M-Day and the business man
by
Leo Cherne
Can the gold problem be solved?
by
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Dr. Holmes's Boston:
New England after the flowering
by
Van Wyck Brooks
Business and religion:
An old partnership revived
by
Emily Newbold
No more summer in Austria
by
Carl Zuckmayer
Fiction
“They also serve . . .”
by
Mervyn Wall
Table for one
by
Frances Taylor Patterson
Poetry
Poet of a gentler time
by
Jessica Powers
A flicker went free
by
Robert P. Tristram (Robert Peter Tristram) Coffin
Native land
by
Edward Ronald Weismiller
Widow
by
Martha Keller
AUGUST
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
Wanted:
A plan for defense
by
Hanson Weightman Baldwin
The new German military theory
by
Hoffman Nickerson
Adventures in money-raising
by
Abraham Flexner
Our policy in the Far East
by
Alfred Whitney Griswold
Business men, get a writer!
by
St. Clair McKelway
Fiction
Nebraska Crane
by
Thomas Wolfe
Poetry
And still the dark wind crying
by
Nancy Bickel
Five sonnets
by
Conrad Aiken
The wonders
by
Martha Keller
SEPTEMBER
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
The inner threat:
Our own softness
by
Roy Addison Helton
The lesson of 1917
by
Frederick Lewis Allen
Exit exports, enter boom
by
Eliot Janeway
Rubber out of oil
by
Harland Manchester
Don't expect inflation
by
Harold M. (Harold Manchester) Fleming
Fiction
The old people
by
William Faulkner
A lesson in French
by
Elizabeth Enright
Poetry
Appeasement
by
Martha Keller
France
by
Paul Morand
American birds
by
Thomas Caldecot Chubb
Intermission, please!
by
Irwin Edman
OCTOBER
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
The failure of France
by
Robert de Saint Jean
Why Hitler wins:
A lesson in technological politics for Americans
by
Carl Dreher
The education of Wendell Willkie
by
Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
PM:
The Wall-Street-Popular-Front tabloid
by
Ferdinand Lundberg
From blueprints to gunfire:
The National Defense Commission gets to work
by
Frank Cleary Hanighen
Fiction
Pantaloon in black
by
William Faulkner
Poetry
When you have seen the brown November wood
by
Nancy Bickel
NOVEMBER
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
Main Street twenty years after
by
Bernard Augustine De Voto
Plain speaking about Latin America
by
Lewis Hanke
Germany's plans for Europe
by
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
To our thirty-year-olds
by
Gerald W. (Gerald White) Johnson
Seasickness
by
W.H. Michael
Fiction
The pilgrim hawk:
A novel in two parts (part one)
by
Glenway Wescott
An evening in Nuevo Leon
by
Erskine Caldwell
Mamma is a lady
by
David Cornel De Jong
Poetry
Ice storm
by
Jessica Powers
DECEMBER
CONTENTS
|
THUMBNAILS
Selected Articles
The United States Army
by
Frank Cleary Hanighen
To our new prophets
by
Bernard Augustine De Voto
[various]
by
Lee Foster Hartman
Europe's revolt against civilization
by
William Henry Chamberlin
Epitaph for the World's Fair
by
Sidney Shalett
Fiction
Savora's
by
Sylvia Thompson
The pilgrim hawk:
A novel in two parts (part two)
by
Glenway Wescott
Poetry
Center square
by
Martha Keller
Under the stairs of heaven
by
Kingsley Tufts
BY TYPE
Articles
(146)
Corrections
(2)
Stories
(23)
Games
(1)
Poems
(25)
Reviews
(2)
BY DEPARTMENT
One man's meat
(7)
Personal and otherwise
(19)
The easy chair
(12)
The new books
(1)
PEOPLE DISCUSSED
Abbe, George
Arnold, Matthew
Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
Bacon, Leonard
Bagger, Eugene S. (Eugene Szekeres)
Chamberlain, John
Chase, Stuart
Coleman, Elliot
Davis, Elmer Holmes
Davison, Edward Lewis
De Voto, Bernard Augustine
Duryee, Mary Ballard
Fiene, Ernest
Flexner, Abraham
Higgins, F.R. (Frederick Robert)
Hitler, Adolf
Hopkins, Frank Snowden
Ingersoll, Ralph
Jackson, Ada
Joyce, William
Krutch, Joseph Wood
Lincoln, Abraham
Löhrke, Arline
Löhrke, Eugene William
MacLeish, Archibald
McDonald, Angus Henry
McDonald, James Angus
McWilliams, Joseph Ellsberry
Montgomery, John J. (John Joseph)
Murray, Amy
Pitter, Ruth
Rexroth, Kenneth
Rice, John Andrew
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Ross, J.D. (James Delmage)
Shakespeare, William
Sloan, Alfred P.(Alfred Pritchard)
Snow, Wilbert
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
Welch, Marie de L. (Marie de Laveaga)
Wheeler, Burton Kendall
White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
Wilkins, George H. (George Hubert), Sir
Wilkins, Lady
Williams, Oscar
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis)
Wright, Orville
Wright, Wilbur
Yeats, W.B. (William Butler)
Zuckmayer, Carl
TOP SUBJECTS
White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
Roosevelt, Eleanor
De Voto, Bernard Augustine
South Carolina
Rice, John Andrew
Hitler, Adolf
Davis, Elmer Holmes
Joyce, William
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
Wilkins, George H. (George Hubert), Sir
Wilkins, Lady
PM (American newspaper)
McWilliams, Joseph Ellsberry
Fiene, Ernest
Sloan, Alfred P.(Alfred Pritchard)
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis)
Hawaii
Bacon, Leonard
Montgomery, John J. (John Joseph)
Ross, J.D. (James Delmage)
BOOKS DISCUSSED
Adventures in good eating
(Book)
by
Hines, Duncan
Against the sun
(Book)
by
Jackson, Ada
Airpower
(Book)
by
Williams, Al
America prepares
(Book)
by
Pratt, Fletcher
The American presidency
(Book)
by
Laski, Harold Joseph
The American stakes
(Book)
by
Chamberlain, John
An American in August-land
(Book)
by
Coleman, Elliot
Another time
(Book)
by
Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
Anya
(Book)
by
Davidman, Joy
As I remember him
(Book)
by
Zinsser, Hans
Ask me tomorrow
(Book)
by
Cozzens, James Gould
Before lunch
(Book)
by
Thirkell, Angela
Beyond German victory
(Book)
by
Agar, Herbert
and
Hill, Helen
Beyond tears
(Book)
by
Litten, Irmgard
The British empire
(Book)
by
Leacock, Stephen
California
(Book)
by
Caughey, John
Canada: America's problem
(Book)
by
MacCormac, John
Collected poems
(Book)
by
Graves, Robert
,
Moore, Marianne
,
Muir, Edwin
,
Durrell, Lawrence
,
Spender, Stephen
,
Davison, Edward Lewis
,
Thomas, Dylan
,
Zaturenska, Marya
,
Winters, Yvor
,
Abse, Dannie
,
Stevens, Wallace
,
Empson, William
,
Sassoon, Siegfried
,
Bunting, Basil
, and
Douglas, Keith Castellain
Country squire in the White House
(Book)
by
Flynn, John T. (John Thomas)
Dago red
(Book)
by
Fante, John
Democracy and the third term
(Book)
by
Rodell, Fred
Empire on the seven seas
(Book)
by
Adams, James Truslow
Engines of democracy
(Book)
by
Burlingame, Roger
Europe in the spring
(Book)
by
Luce, Clare Boothe
Failure of a mission
(Book)
by
Henderson, Nevile, Sir
Freedom's battle
(Book)
by
Alvarez del Vayo, Julio
From England to America: a message
(Book)
by
Brailsford, Henry Noel
George Washington
(Book)
by
Wilson, Woodrow
,
Pyle, Howard
,
Lodge, Henry Cabot
,
Stephenson, Nathaniel W.(Nathaniel Wright)
, and
Dunn, Waldo Hilary
Green lies the valley
(Book)
by
Webster, Barbara
Gypsy, gypsy
(Book)
by
Godden, Rumer
I married adventure
(Book)
by
Johnson, Osa
I saw France fall, will she rise again?
(Book)
by
Chambrun, René de
I saw it happen in Norway
(Book)
by
Hambro, Carl Joachim
Idle money, idle men
(Book)
by
Chase, Stuart
If you don't weaken
(Book)
by
Ameringer, Oscar
In what hour
(Book)
by
Rexroth, Kenneth
Last poems, last plays
(Book)
by
Yeats, W.B. (William Butler)
Letter from England
(Book)
by
Panter-Downes, Mollie
Letter of credit
(Book)
by
Weidman, Jerome
Lodging for a night
(Book)
by
Hines, Duncan
Maine tides
(Book)
by
Snow, Wilbert
Mrs. Miniver
(Book)
by
Struther, Jan
My native land
(Book)
by
Strong, Anna Louise
New England: Indian summer, 1865-1915
(Book)
by
Brooks, Van Wyck
No special pleading
(Book)
by
Duryee, Mary Ballard
November hereabout
(Book)
by
Murray, Amy
The Pan American Highway: from the Rio Grande to the canal zone
(Book)
by
Franck, Harry Alverson
Paris France
(Book)
by
Stein, Gertrude
Pilgrim's way
(Book)
by
Buchan, John
Polish profile
(Book)
by
Ross, Virgilia Peterson
Practical farming for beginners
(Book)
by
Highstone, H.A.
Rosscommon
(Book)
by
Smart, Charles Allen
Singing valleys: the story of corn
(Book)
by
Giles, Dorothy
Song in the meadow
(Book)
by
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox
Stalin's Russia and the crisis in socialism
(Book)
by
Eastman, Max
This is on me
(Book)
by
Brush, Katharine
This is our China
(Book)
by
Chiang
This is our own
(Book)
by
Welch, Marie de L. (Marie de Laveaga)
To the Finland station
(Book)
by
Wilson, Edmund
Too dear for my possessing
(Book)
by
Johnson, Pamela Hansford
Total defense
(Book)
by
Foreman, Clark
and
Raushenbush, Joan
Tragedy in France
(Book)
by
Maurois, André
Trees of heaven
(Book)
by
Stuart, Jesse
Trelawney
(Book)
by
Armstrong, Margaret
Two frontiers of freedom
(Book)
by
Corbin, John
Vassar women: an informal study
(Book)
by
Rogers, Agnes
Wait for these things
(Book)
by
Abbe, George
When the bough breaks
(Book)
by
Rumsey, Adeline
When the whippoorwill—
(Book)
by
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
Who tells me true
(Book)
by
Strange, Michael
Why Europe fights
(Book)
by
Millis, Walter
World's end
(Book)
by
Upton Sinclair
You can't go home again
(Book)
by
Wolfe, Thomas
The art of modern warfare
(Book)
by
Foertsch, Hermann
The bottlenecks of business
(Book)
by
Arnold, Thurman Wesley
The brave and the blind
(Book)
by
Blankfort, Michael
The bridge
(Book)
by
Poole, Ernest
The confessions of an individualist
(Book)
by
Chamberlin, William Henry
The defenders
(Book)
by
Hoellering, Franz
The defense of the Americas
(Book)
by
Eliot, George Fielding
The discovery of man
(Book)
by
Casson, Stanley
The east coast of South America
(Book)
by
Clark, Sydney
The end of the armistice
(Book)
by
Chesterton, G.K. (Gilbert Keith)
The family
(Book)
by
Fedorova, Nina
A federation for Western Europe
(Book)
by
Jennings, Ivor, Sir
The gap of brightness
(Book)
by
Higgins, F.R. (Frederick Robert)
The ghostland
(Book)
by
Rothermell, Fred
The great crusade
(Book)
by
Regler, Gustav
The heart is a lonely hunter
(Book)
by
McCullers, Carson
The irresponsibles
(Book)
by
MacLeish, Archibald
The lights go down
(Book)
by
Mann, Erika
The long watch in England
(Book)
by
Löhrke, Arline
and
Löhrke, Eugene William
The man coming toward you
(Book)
by
Williams, Oscar
A man named Grant
(Book)
by
Todd, Helen
The people talk
(Book)
by
Appel, Benjamin
The president makers: 1896-1919
(Book)
by
Josephson, Matthew
A southerner discovers New England
(Book)
by
Daniels, Jonathan
The spirit watches
(Book)
by
Pitter, Ruth
The stone of chastity
(Book)
by
Sharp, Margery
The triumph of American capitalism
(Book)
by
Hacker, Louis Morton
The underground stream
(Book)
by
Maltz, Albert
The vacation guide
(Book)
by
Benjamin, Robert Spiers
The world I knew
(Book)
by
Golding, Louis
DEATHS
Anderson, Mary
Azãna, Manuel
Benjamin, Walter
Benson, E.F. (Edward Frederic)
Black, Alexander
Blatch, Harriot Stanton
Borah, William Edgar
Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanas'evich
Bunau-Varilla, Philippe
Burton, Richard
Cook, Frederick Albert
Davies, W.H. (William Henry)
Denison, Harold
Douglas, James
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Flipper, Henry Ossian
Garland, Hamlin
Goldman, Emma
Grant, Ethel Watts Mumford
Grant, Robert
Hale, Ellen Day
Head, Henry, Sir
Heyward, DuBose
Hine, Lewis Wickes
Hobson, J.A. (John Atkinson)
Houston, David Franklin
Howe, Frederic Clemson
Jenkins, MacGregor
Kremer, Charles E. (Charles Edward)
Lodge, Oliver, Sir
Lothian, Philip Henry Kerr, Marquis of
Manly, John Matthews
McClellan, George B.
Morgan, William Conger
O'Neil, George
Pearl, Raymond
Peixotto, Ernest C.
Przerwa-Tetmajer, Kazimierz
Putnam, Edmund W. (Edmund Whitman)
Rihani, Ameen Fares
Rost, Ernest Christian
Saleeby, C.W. (Caleb Williams)
Sloane, T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor)
Smith, Harlan Ingersoll
Stanley, Freelan Oscar
Stockbridge, Frank Parker
Suydam, E.H. (Edward Howard)
Taussig, F.W. (Frank William)
Thomson, J.J. (Joseph John), Sir
Tovey, Donald Francis, Sir
Trotsky, Leon
Walcott, Mary Vaux
West, Nathanael
Whitelock, William Wallace
Wilson, Herbert Wrigley
Wolfe, Humbert
Zinsser, Hans
BIRTHS
Acconci, Vito
Armey, Richard K.
Ashley, Steven
Bakke, Allan Paul
Banks, Russell
Beasley, Conger
Benchley, Peter
Berkow, Ira
Berman, Marshall
Blackburn, Graham
Brodsky, Joseph
Budbill, David
Chatwin, Bruce
Cherry, Kelly
Close, Chuck
Coetzee, J.M.
Cohen, William S.
Cooley, Peter
Cox, Jeff
Davis, L.J. (Lawrence J.)
De Pauw, Linda Grant
Dehaene, Jean-Luc
Dickstein, Morris
Disch, Thomas M.
Fife, John M. (John Macmillan)
FitzGerald, Frances
Galeano, Eduardo H.
Gardner, George William
Gerald, John Bart
Goffstein, M.B.
Goodwin, Guy
Gordon, Linda
Greenstein, George
Haining, Peter
Heinrich, Bernd
Herrin, Lamar
Heyen, William
Hickey, Dave
Hochschild, Arlie Russell
Ivan'kov, Viacheslav Kirillovich
Jabor, Arnaldo
Johansen, Robert C.
Kilgore, Andrew
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Kohn, Richard H.
Kovacik, Charles F.
Krauss, Rosalind E.
Lennon, John
Lentricchia, Frank
Lernoux, Penny
Lewis, Tom
Little, Loyd
Mariani, Paul L.
Mark, Mary Ellen
Mason, Bobbie Ann
McCaig, Donald
McDougal, Jim
McLachlan, Edward
Melrose, Ken
Meyer, G.J.
Mischer, Don
Mitchell, Juliet
Moss, Cynthia
Murray, Elizabeth
Navarre, Yves
Nichols, John Treadwell
Nicol, Charles
O'Donoghue, Michael
Pacino, Al
Penner, Jonathan
Peterson, Paul E.
Phillips, Kevin P.
Pinsky, Robert
Plante, David
Powers, Thomas
Proctor, Philip
Robinson, Paul A.
Rockwell, John
Rosenblatt, Roger
Rowell, Galen A.
Sanders, Pharoah
Sarid, Yossi
Schell, Orville
Schreiber, Norman
Schuck, Peter H.
Seidman, Hugh
Sinclair, Marianne
Starr, S. Frederick
Steinberg, Stephen
Stitt, Peter
Stokes, Geoffrey
Stott, William
Swann, Brian
Sánchez, Pedro A.
Taussig, Michael T.
Tillinghast, Richard
Trebek, Alex
Tress, Arthur
Turkmenbashy, Saparmyrat
Uphoff, Norman Thomas
Volkman, Ernest
Watkins, Mel
Weisskopf, Thomas E.
Wellford, Harrison
White, Edmund
White, Mark
Zappa, Frank
Zelnick, Bob
Featured
Items
1
After many a summer:
A novel in five parts (part three)
by
Aldous Huxley
Fiction,
January 1940
, 21 pp.
2
The pilgrim hawk:
A novel in two parts (part one)
by
Glenway Wescott
Fiction,
November 1940
, 19 pp.
3
The pilgrim hawk:
A novel in two parts (part two)
by
Glenway Wescott
Fiction,
December 1940
, 18 pp.
4
War and the verities
by
Ellsworth Barnard
Article,
January 1940
, 16 pp.
5
They wouldn't believe the Wrights had flown:
A study in human incredulity
by
Fred C. (Fred Charters) Kelly
Article,
August 1940
, 16 pp.
6
After many a summer:
A novel in five parts (part four)
by
Aldous Huxley
Fiction,
February 1940
, 16 pp.
7
Why Hitler wins:
A lesson in technological politics for Americans
by
Carl Dreher
Article,
October 1940
, 16 pp.
8
J.D. Ross, public power magnate
by
Carl Dreher
Article,
June 1940
, 15 pp.
9
The war and America
by
Elmer Holmes Davis
Article,
April 1940
, 15 pp.
10
Flight from France, June 17-25
by
Eugene S. (Eugene Szekeres) Bagger
Article,
November 1940
, 15 pp.
11
Arming and paying for it
by
Guy Greer
Article,
November 1940
, 15 pp.
12
After many a summer:
A novel in five parts (part five)
by
Aldous Huxley
Fiction,
March 1940
, 15 pp.
13
Wanted:
A plan for defense
by
Hanson Weightman Baldwin
Article,
August 1940
, 15 pp.
14
The American fascists
by
Dale Kramer
Article,
September 1940
, 15 pp.
15
News-letters:
A revolution in journalism
by
Ferdinand Lundberg
Article,
April 1940
, 14 pp.
16
The United States Army
by
Frank Cleary Hanighen
Article,
December 1940
, 14 pp.
17
Shakespeare himself
by
Oscar James Campbell
Article,
July 1940
, 14 pp.
18
The long watch in England
by
Arline Löhrke
and
Eugene William Löhrke
Article,
March 1940
, 13 pp.
19
Stefansson:
Twenty years after
by
Earl Parker Hanson
Article,
March 1940
, 13 pp.
20
The failure of France
by
Robert de Saint Jean
Article,
October 1940
, 13 pp.