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November 1950

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

4	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
6-15	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Across the wide Missouri (Book); De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Motion picture authorship; Snobs and snobbishness PDF IMAGES
16-18	Letters/Department Letters On Problems, problems everywhere, from September 1950: Letter By E. Moody PDF IMAGES
21-27	Article This war is different By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Korean War, 1950-1953; Limited war; Military policy; Operational readiness PDF IMAGES
27	Article Our most serious military problem By George C. (George Catlett) Marshall SEE ALSO: Textbook bias PDF IMAGES
28-39	Article London journal, 1762-1763 By James Boswell SEE ALSO: Biographers; Diaries; English diaries; Friends and associates; Boswell, James; Johnson, Samuel; Scottish authors PDF IMAGES
39	Poem The unhappy warrior By Sylvia Stallings PDF IMAGES
40-50	Article The new snobbism By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Snobs and snobbishness PDF IMAGES
51-57	Article Korea: The military lesson By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Balance of power; Causes; Cold War; Communist strategy; Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Low-intensity conflicts (Military science); Military policy; Operational readiness PDF IMAGES
58-63	Fiction The reasonable music: A story By John Cheever PDF IMAGES
63	Fiction Sic semper By Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli PDF IMAGES
64-67	The easy chair/Article But sometimes they vote right too By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Authoritarianism; Career as U.S. senator; Ethics; McCarthy, Joseph; Representative government and representation; Specialists; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
68-75	Article A university in jeopardy By John Caughey SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Civil rights and socialism; Faculty; Loyalty oaths PDF IMAGES
76-79	Article Church and state in Israel By William Zukerman SEE ALSO: Church and state; Israel PDF IMAGES
79	Article The soil of genius By Norbert Wiener SEE ALSO: Creative ability; Genius; Inventions PDF IMAGES
80-88	Fiction Under weigh By Katherine Anne Porter PDF IMAGES
89-95	Article McCarran, lone wolf of the Senate By Alfred Steinberg SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Leadership; Nevada; McCarran, Pat; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
95	Poem Snow tracks By Burke Boyce PDF IMAGES
96-97	After hours/Article After hours By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Creative writing; Plots (Drama, novel, etc.); Technique PDF IMAGES
97-99	After hours/Article American landscape IV By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Landscape architecture; Photo; Skyscrapers PDF IMAGES
100-109	New books/Review Serge to Faulkner to Aiken By Richard Halworth Rovere SEE ALSO: Cast a cold eye (Book); Collected stories of William Faulkner (Book); Aiken, Conrad; Seeger, Elizabeth; Gorer, Geoffrey; Brickell, Herschel; Shaw, Irwin; Rickman, John; Foley, Martha; McCarthy, Mary; Mixed company (Book); 1613-1917; Our ally: the people of Russia (Book); Prize stories of 1950 (Book); The best American short stories: 1950 (Book); The case of Comrade Tulayev (Book); The pageant of Russian history (Book); The peoples of Great Russia (Book); The short stories of Conrad Aiken (Book); Serge, Victor; Wood, William Alexander; Faulkner, William PDF IMAGES
109-111	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Cooke, Alistair; Gordon, Arthur; Menen, Aubrey; Belles on their toes (Book); Anderson, Dwight; Carey, Ernestine Gilbreth; Gilbreth, Frank B. (Frank Bunker); Generation on trial: U.S.A. vs. Alger Hiss (Book); Sherman, Harold Morrow; Godden, Jon; Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft (Book); Reprisal (Book); Yorke, Susan; Williams, Tennessee; The backward bride (Book); The other side of the bottle (Book); The peacock (Book); The Roman spring of Mrs. Stone (Book); The widow (Book); Heyerdahl, Thor; You can stop drinking (Book) PDF IMAGES
111	Books in brief/Review Book forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A dictionary of Americanisms (Book); A pictorial history of the American theatre, 1900-1950 (Book); Sack, Albert; American painting (Book); Seton, Anya; Palmer, Brooks; Blum, Daniel C.; Dream sinister (Book); Queen, Ellery; Roosevelt, Elliott; Partridge, Eric; FDR: his personal letters (Book); Festivals, U.S.A. (Book); Fine points of furniture: early American (Book); Foxfire (Book); Lasswell, Mary; Mathews, Mitford McLeod; Rivers parting (Book); Meyer, Robert; Sea slang of the 20th century (Book); Barker, Shirley; Churchill, Winston, Sir; Schley, Sturges Mason; The hinge of fate (Book); The literature of crime (Book); Three for the road (Book); Barker, Virgil; Granville, Wilfred PDF IMAGES