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1948

January	Selected Articles The coming wage-price spiral: And how to stop it By Stephen Raushenbush The containment of Soviet power By G.B. Thomas Fiction The rain came last By Niccolò Tucci Macintosh tells me By John Bell Clayton Poetry Men at work By Dilys Laing Man or marsupial? By Lydel Sims
February	Selected Articles End the steel famine By Harold J. Ruttenberg Fiction The sniff By V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett The high hill By Mary Deasy Poetry Winter night By Frances Frost Night hawks over Bronxville By James Rorty
March	Selected Articles The blast in Centralia no. 5: A mine disaster no one stopped By John Bartlow Martin Everybody's problem: Prices, wages, profits By Leon Hirsch Keyserling Fiction Manhattan Pete By Neil S. (Neil Servis) Boardman The purification of Thelma Augenstern By Victor Wolfson Poetry We the reprieved By Kate Brackett Hawk By John Ciardi
April	Selected Articles Taft: Is this the best we've got? By Richard Halworth Rovere Anywhere in Europe By Anne Morrow Lindbergh Fiction The captain and the stowaway By Scott Seegers All prisoners here By Irving Pfeffer Poetry Morning By Robert Huff Virgin and unicorn By John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs
May	Selected Articles Little Donald took an axe: What not to do with child criminals By Robert Coulson The unassailable Vandenberg By Richard Halworth Rovere Fiction Brassard, mourning, official By Miller Harris High diver By John Ashworth Poetry Gadaboutown By R. Vinzons Asis Song By Robert Horan
June	Selected Articles A continent slides to ruin By William Vogt The German who should have been dead By Cedric Belfrage Fiction Catalina: A novel in three parts (part I) By W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham The loan By Neil S. (Neil Servis) Boardman Poetry Roll By Louis Aston Marantz Simpson Credenda By R. Vinzons Asis
July	Selected Articles Sheep come in a flock By Frederick Lewis Allen The price of war By Hanson Weightman Baldwin Fiction Frankie comes to call By Betty Smith Fagin's pants By Peter De Vries Poetry That little tiny bird By Lloyd Frankenberg Out in the stovepipe mountains By Thomas Hornsby Ferril
August	Selected Articles [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen That German who “should have been dead”: A communication By Ernst Federn Fiction Roman holiday By Robert Lewis Catalina: A novel in three parts [part III] By W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham Poetry For G.B.S., old By William Carlos Williams
September	Selected Articles The six thousand houses that Levitt built By Eric Larrabee Surprises in Russia By Sam Welles Fiction The italics are mine By A.L. (Audrey Lillian) Barker Dirty money By Hugh Rockwell Poetry “Turn the captivity of thy people—” By Valentine Ackland Winter night By Rolfe Humphries
October	Selected Articles What's more By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction Meeting time By John Downing Weaver Public address system By Jessamyn West Poetry A Nostromo By Katharine Strelsky For Penelope By John E. McMillin
November	Selected Articles Unwritten rules of American politics By John Fischer Fiction The renegade By Shirley Jackson Buzby's petrified woman By Loren C. Eiseley Poetry Don Juan muses: Over the dead body of the commendador By John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs Lullaby By Rolfe Humphries
December	Selected Articles The great Pierpont Morgan (part I) By Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction One of the chosen By Hortense Calisher The mark of Vishnu By Khushwant Singh Poetry Sonnet By David Thompson Watson McCord

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