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December 1952

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Don Higgins SEE ALSO: Christmas gifts; Refuse and refuse disposal PDF IMAGES
4-15	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen PDF IMAGES
16-18	Letters/Department Letters On Transcontinental flight, from July 1952: Letter By Richard C. Raymond On The end of the stalwarts, from September 1952: Letter By Jr. and Walter M. McClure On An old steal refurbished, from October 1952: Letter By Joseph G. Masters PDF IMAGES
21-28	Article The illusion of American omnipotence By D.W. (Denis William) Brogan SEE ALSO: Civil War, 1945-1949; Cold War; Errors, inventions, etc.; Foreign public opinion; Great powers; Korean War, 1950-1953; 1945-1953 PDF IMAGES
28	Poem Rendezvous By Anne Goodwin Winslow PDF IMAGES
29-32	Article Get away from me with those Christmas gifts By Sylvia Wright SEE ALSO: Christmas gifts PDF IMAGES
32	Article The open city By Syed Amjad Ali SEE ALSO: Headquarters; Intellectual cooperation; International cooperation; United Nations PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article The new mood of Europe By Vera Micheles Dean SEE ALSO: Economic assistance, American; European cooperation; 1945-1953 PDF IMAGES
40	Article These everlasting regulations By Marchette Gaylord Chute SEE ALSO: Family; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Guilds; Middle Ages; Vintners; Wine and wine making PDF IMAGES
41-49	Fiction The legends of Henry Everett: A story By Louis Auchincloss PDF IMAGES
50-52	Article Portraits from memory: I By Bertrand Russell SEE ALSO: Whitehead, Alfred North; Anecdotes; Cambridge; Faculty; Mathematicians; Philosophers; University of Cambridge PDF IMAGES
52	Poem Conversation piece By Agnes Rogers PDF IMAGES
53-56	The easy chair/Article Samuel Hall, gent. By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Folklore; Gangsters; Heroes; Heroes in mass media; Leach, Joseph; Mythology; Outlaws; The typical Texan (Book) PDF IMAGES
57-67	Article The old order: Berchtesgaden seven years after By Paul Moor SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Anti-Americanism; Berchtesgaden (Germany); Buildings, structures, etc.; Foreign service; Mehr, George; Homes and haunts—Germany—Obersalzberg; Nazis PDF IMAGES
68-74	Fiction Chief Rainbow and the kid in Paris: A story By Max Steele PDF IMAGES
75-78	Article The man Whistler: Part III By Hesketh Pearson SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Expatriate artists; Leyland, Frederick Richard; Homes and haunts; Whistler, James McNeill; Portrait painters PDF IMAGES
79-84	Article The role of the undesirables By Eric Hoffer SEE ALSO: Depressions; Frontier and pioneer life; Migrant agricultural laborers PDF IMAGES
85-90	Article The loves of Goggle By Bentz Plagemann SEE ALSO: Dating (Social customs); First loves PDF IMAGES
90	Poem Without farewell—1952 (suicide of a teacher) By Hortense Flexner PDF IMAGES
91	Article Who should do the writing? By Victor M. Ratner SEE ALSO: Government report writing PDF IMAGES
92-93	After hours/Article Mobiles, schmobiles By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Calder, Alexander; Art; Art and motion pictures; Meredith, Burgess; Career as motion picture director; Matter, Herbert; Mobiles (Sculpture); Motion picture producers and directors PDF IMAGES
93-94	After hours/Article Blue suit By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Boys' clothing; Shopping PDF IMAGES
94-95	After hours/Article Housewarming By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Headquarters; United Nations PDF IMAGES
95	After hours/Article Is it flotsam or jetsam? By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: House furnishings industry and trade PDF IMAGES
96-106	New books/Review Enough of everyone, almost By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: Huxley, Aldous; De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Bullfighter from Brooklyn (Book); Citizens of the world (Book); Confessors of the name (Book); Aiken, Conrad; Criticism; Freeman, Douglas Southall; Wilson, Edmund; Eternal France (Book); Schmitt, Gladys; Cartier-Bresson, Henri; Randall, J.G. (James Garfield); Thompson, J.M.(James Matthew); Language as gesture (Book); Lincoln, a picture story of his life (Book); Aldanov, Mark; Hürlimann, Martin; Midstream: Lincoln the President (Book); Napoleon Bonaparte (Book); October Island (Book); Blackmur, R.P. (Richard P.); Carson, Robert; Franklin, Sidney; Grimble, Arthur Francis, Sir; Lorant, Stefan; Barr, Stringfellow; The course of empire (Book); The decisive moment (Book); The devils of Loudun (Book); The magic lantern (Book); The shores of light (Book); The wonderful country (Book); To live as we wish (Book); Lea, Tom; Ushant (Book); Victory with the help of France (Book); We chose the Islands (Book); March, William PDF IMAGES
106-108	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Cooke, Alistair; Christmas eve: three stories (Book); Fuess, Claude Moore; Skidmore, Hobert; Independent schoolmaster (Book); It's different for a woman (Book); Boyd, James; Gregg, Jess; Porter, Katherine Anne; Ward, Mary Jane; Old pines and other stories (Book); The days before (Book); The other Elizabeth (Book); The years are even (Book) PDF IMAGES
108-109	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Annapurna (Book); Charles Dickens (Book); Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame; Garside, E.B. (Edward Ballard); Johnson, Edgar; Ernest Hemingway (Book); Hull, Helen R. (Helen Rose); Kiss me again (Book); Land fall (Book); Herzog, Maurice; Soloviev, Mikhael; Henrey, Robert, Mrs.; Young, Philip; The little Madeleine (Book); The man from Brazil (Book); Tito (Book); Dedijer, Vladimir; When the gods are silent (Book) PDF IMAGES
110-111	The new recordings/Review Beethoven By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Beethoven: Piano sonata #22, op. 54; Piano sonata #27, op. 90; Piano sonata #16, op. 31, no. 1 (Sound recording); Beethoven: Piano sonata, “Hammerklavier,” op. 106 (Sound recording); Beethoven: Piano sonatas in A; op. 28; “Appassionata,” op. 57 (Sound recording); Beethoven: Piano sonatas in C minor: “Pathétique,” op. 13; op. 111 (Sound recording); Beethoven: Symphony no. 9; Symphony no. 1 (Sound recording); Beethoven: The complete piano sonatas (Sound recording); Petri, Egon; Gulda, Friedrich; Steurer, Hugo; Solomon, Izler; Applebaum, Kurt; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Performances; Toscanini; Backhaus, Wilhelm; Kempff, Wilhelm PDF IMAGES