Harper's Magazine Archive (1940)

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