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1942

January	Selected Articles The only woman in the lifeboat: The story of Mary Cornish of the City of Benares By Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley A warning to the peace-planners: America's new industrial rivals By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan Fiction Nothing made By Colin Wills A nice man By Grace Flandrau Poetry Of this full moment By Gilbert Maxwell To make a poem By David Morton
February	Selected Articles The truth about air power: Our need for a five-continent air force By Keith Ayling England in the great lull By John Dos Passos Fiction The green-eyed cat By Marjorie Muir Worthington Poetry Child By Babette Deutsch To a dog dreaming By Elford Caughey
March	Selected Articles America in world war, 1917-1942 By William Henry Chamberlin How to pay for the war By Peter Ferdinand Drucker Fiction The workmanship has to be wasted By Alexander Laing Good neighbors By Stoyan Christowe
April	Selected Articles America's enemy no. 2: Yamamoto By Willard Price The crisis in man power By George Ross Leighton Fiction Portrait of a murderer By Q. Patrick
May	Selected Articles The truth is good news By Herbert Agar The tyranny of incompetence: The profit drive slackens, business goes soft, and then what? By Joseph H. Spigelman Fiction The wide net By Eudora Welty The great fog By Gerald Heard Poetry Armageddon By Robert Nathan The search By Christopher La Farge
June	Selected Articles The case of the ten Nazi spies By Edward C. (Edward Campbell) Aswell Sedition's general staff By Bernard Augustine De Voto Fiction A try for the island By Paul Horgan Poetry Headquarters By Mark Van Doren I have a lonely heart By George Scarbrough
July	Selected Articles Sky trucks coming: Freight boats can't supply a five-continent air force By William M. Sheehan Drafting this army: A progress report on Selective Service By Frederick Lewis Allen Poetry Omen By Edward Ronald Weismiller On the anniversary of a London bombing: Remembered in New York By R.J. (Robert James) Cruikshank
August	Selected Articles The Russian enigma: An interpretation By William Henry Chamberlin Civilian defense—there she stands By Charles Lester Walker Fiction Another April By Jesse Stuart Hilaire and the Maréchal Pétard By Kay Boyle Poetry Solar song By Lorraine Catheron Yggdrasill By Dilys Laing
September	Selected Articles On living in a revolution By Julian Huxley Blood and banquets: The diary of a Berlin society reporter [(part I)] By Bella Fromm Fiction Samuel Blane By Murray Dyer
October	Selected Articles Our battle against the submarines: As seen from inside the control room, eastern sea frontier By Lawrance Roger Thompson Freedom from want: A postwar budget for America By Stuart Chase Fiction The crooked cross By Franz Werfel Poetry Office for the dead By Martha Keller
November	Selected Articles Americans in battle—no. 1: Campaign in the Java Sea By Fletcher Pratt Twelve things the war will do to America By Quincy Howe Fiction The enemy By Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker) Buck Poetry Lullaby with cricket obbligato By Vivan Taylor Vogt Dunkirk night By Aragon
December	Selected Articles Crisis in Washington By George Ross Leighton The shape of things in Britain By Frank Cleary Hanighen Poetry To Aphrodite By Nancy Bickel [I] By Karl Jay Shapiro

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