Harper's Magazine Archive (1950)

1950

JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles American landscape I by Frederick Lewis Allen The day the sun stood still by Eric Larrabee Insomnia in Whitehall by John Fischer Parable of the lost chance by Bernard Augustine De Voto The ordeal of Dr. Condon by Louis Welborn Fiction Hereby hangs a tale by Max Steele Breath of air by Michael Jaffé Poetry The seagull by Uys Krige August light by Katharine Strelsky A portrait of the artist: For Katherine Anne Porter by William Miller Abrahams Charlottesville: The age of reason by Sylvia Stallings
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles [various] by Frederick Lewis Allen American landscape II by Frederick Lewis Allen Simultaneous discovery by Lancelot Law Whyte Year-end megrims by Bernard Augustine De Voto The mirage of pensions by Peter Ferdinand Drucker Fiction The villa by Victor Wolfson The ruin of soul by Leonard Wallace Robinson Poetry Advice to a traveler by Howard Moss
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Arms and the Germans, 1950 by Telford Taylor Everything's true about Texas by Stanley Walker Bread, and the stuff we eat by James Rorty Almost toujours gai by Bernard Augustine De Voto The humble female by Agnes Rogers Fiction Part of the family picture by Peter De Vries The two brothers by V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett Poetry Florentine afternoons by Katherine Garrison Chapin Death went away by Mark Van Doren Birth of song by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Marquand of Newburyport by Granville Hicks How to elect a Republican by Herbert Agar Forecasting the 1950 elections by Louis Hyman Bean Hollywood faces the fifties: Part I. The lost enthusiasm by John Houseman Two boys on a mountain by William O. (William Orville) Douglas Fiction The blue-winged teal by Wallace Earle Stegner Accused and accuser in Lilliput by Jonathan Swift Death of the Zulu by Uys Krige Poetry Aunt Alice in April by William H. Matchett
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles At my wit's beginning by Fred Schwed Feast of death by Frederick Lewis Allen How are your connections? by Frederick Lewis Allen The second Eisenhower boom by Richard Halworth Rovere Fiction The beautiful Mô by George Howe Full circle by Bentz Plagemann Poetry Remembering a red brick wall in Rensselaer by Thomas Hornsby Ferril Some improbable creatures by Peter De Vries Some improbable plants by Peter De Vries Rigmarole by Peter De Vries Obituary for an insurance broker by Peter De Vries
JUNE	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles What the Wrights really invented by Wolfgang Langewiesche A rosy wreath by Frederick Lewis Allen Who are the American poor? by Robert L. Heilbroner War games in southern waters by Fletcher Pratt Fiction The putting away of Uncle Quaggin by Nigel Kneale Oh, mirror, mirror by Nigel Kneale The inspector by John Fraiser Robinson Poetry Oscillogram by David Thompson Watson McCord Orchestration by David Morton Up-state cellar hole by Fred Lape
JULY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles How big is too big? by Peter Ferdinand Drucker What we know about drinking by Charles Lester Walker The perpetual refugees by Michael L. Hoffman Research by air by Bernard Augustine De Voto The predicament of the tolerant by Horace Meyer Kallen Fiction Portrait of the artist as a young grocery clerk by Bentz Plagemann Her breath upon the windowpane by William Goyen Poetry Night study by William Rose Benét Subway by Gilbert Highet Without the violence by May Sarton Simple theology by David Thompson Watson McCord Black road by David Thompson Watson McCord
AUGUST	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles ACTH, Cortisone, & Co. by Leonard Engel The noble crusade of Senator McCarthy by Alfred Friendly No lark so blithe as he by Frederick Lewis Allen Fiction The little world of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi The old strife at Plant's by Joyce Cary Poetry Unlikely teacher by Hortense Flexner The tourist by S.P. Andersen
SEPTEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Especially for summer by Frederick Lewis Allen The communists in America by Robert Houghwout Jackson Take a chair by Peter Blake Our roads are going to pot by Myron M. (Myron Morris) Stearns Fiction Minuke by Nigel Kneale Curphey's follower by Nigel Kneale Sir Carl of Heldart: A novell by Victoria Lincoln Poetry The two laughters by Joseph Joel Keith Anthem for Boeotia by Christopher Morley Eames vs. hammock by Harold Atkins Larrabee
OCTOBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Fiction A name for the city by William Faulkner The prisoner by Katherine Anne Porter Poetry Precious five by W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden To be sung by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck
NOVEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles This war is different by Peter Ferdinand Drucker London journal, 1762-1763 by James Boswell The new snobbism by Russell Lynes Korea: The military lesson by Eric Larrabee Fiction The reasonable music: A story by John Cheever Sic semper by Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli Under weigh by Katherine Anne Porter Poetry The unhappy warrior by Sylvia Stallings Snow tracks by Burke Boyce
DECEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Pink in the flesh by Frederick Lewis Allen The soft impeachment by Frederick Lewis Allen The nature of the universe: Part I. The earth and nearby space by Fred, Sir Hoyle Tourist in America by D.W. (Denis William) Brogan A calculated risk in Yugoslavia by Henry Cutler Wolfe Fiction Promiscuous unbound: A story by Max Steele The exile by Katherine Anne Porter Poetry Memorandum to a tired bureaucrat by James Rorty Boundary by Adrienne Cecile Rich

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