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January 1953

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Philip Grushkin SEE ALSO: Kitimat (B.C.); Maps PDF IMAGES
8-16	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Armistices; British Columbia; Construction workers; Kitimat; Korean War, 1950-1953 PDF IMAGES
18-19	Letters/Department Letters On An old steal refurbished, from October 1952: Letter By Arthur J. Aronson Letter By Paul Raber On Parlor game, from November 1952: Letter By Max E. Brail PDF IMAGES
21-31	Article The truce talks in Korea: A full report to the United Nations By Dean Acheson SEE ALSO: Armistices; Forced repatriation; Korean War, 1950-1953; Prisoners and prisons; United Nations PDF IMAGES
31	Poem Gloss By David Thompson Watson McCord PDF IMAGES
32-39	Article What is happening to the weather? By C.E.P. (Charles Ernest Pelham) Brooks PDF IMAGES
39	Article Wait a minute, Mr. Melville By Frederick Saunders SEE ALSO: Anecdotes—Humor; Authors and publishers; Melville, Herman PDF IMAGES
40-45	Article The octagon house By Frances McFadden SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Circus performers; Dressmakers; McFadden, Frances; Greenwich PDF IMAGES
46-51	Fiction Christmas twice: A story By David Goldknopf PDF IMAGES
52-55	The easy chair/Article Preliminary forecast By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Leadership; 1952-; 1953-1961; The Republican Party; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
56-64	Article Kitimat: Colossus of the Northwest By Richard L. (Richard Lewis) Neuberger SEE ALSO: Aluminum Company of Canada; Aluminum plants; British Columbia; Construction workers; Dams; Kitimat; Kitimat (B.C.) PDF IMAGES
65-69	Article A TV man at the Stevenson watch By Perry Wolff SEE ALSO: Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing); Career in politics; 1952-; Springfield; Television broadcasting of news; Television in politics PDF IMAGES
70-72	Article Portraits from memory: II By Bertrand Russell SEE ALSO: Biography; Criticism and interpretation; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Economists; Strachey, Lytton; Keynes, Maynard PDF IMAGES
72	Poem Despatch By Robert Berkowitz PDF IMAGES
73-76	Article Nothing difficult about a cow By A.B. (Alfred Bertram) Guthrie SEE ALSO: Farm life; Human-animal relationships; Milking; Montana PDF IMAGES
77-82	Article Caution: Medical statistics at work By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Communicable diseases; Medical misconceptions; -Statistics; Statistics, Medical; Statistics, Vital PDF IMAGES
83-90	Article Egypt's “blessed” revolution By Leigh White SEE ALSO: Abdication, 1952; Egypt; Farouk I PDF IMAGES
90	Poem To a baby parked in his pram By Hortense Flexner PDF IMAGES
91-92	After hours/Article Primitives on Broadway By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Wide-screen processes (Cinematography) PDF IMAGES
92-93	After hours/Article Magic lantern By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Architecture; Classification; Lectures and lecturing; Slides (Photography) PDF IMAGES
93-94	After hours/Article Come back, Little Charlie By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Chaplin, Charles; Come back, Little Sheba (Motion picture); Mann, Daniel; Limelight (Motion picture); Motion pictures; Motion pictures and theater; Performances; Booth, Shirley; Inge, William PDF IMAGES
95-100	New books/Review Perspectives By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: Crick, A.J.; Bell, Bernard Iddings; Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples); Amory, Cleveland; Crowd culture (Book); Thomas, E.E.(Edward Eastaway); Northrop, F.S.C. (Filmer Stuart Cuckow); Keyes, Frances Parkinson; Trevelyan, George Macaulay; Chalmers, Gordon Keith; Illustrated English social history (Book); Hutchens, John K.; Abegg, Lily; Mere Christianity (Book); Perspectives USA (American periodical); Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin; Shame and glory of the intellectuals (Book); Steamboat gothic (Book); White, T.H. (Terence Hanbury); The American twenties, a literary panorama (Book); The last resorts (Book); The mind of East Asia (Book); The republic and the person (Book); The scandalmongers (Book); The taming of the nations (Book) PDF IMAGES
101-102	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: De Céspedes, Alba; Macdougall, Allan Ross; Be happier, be healthier (Book); Hauser, Bengamin Gayelord; Brain surgeon (Book); Weihofen, Henry; Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Book); Cohen, Louis H. (Louis Harold0; Guttmacher, Manfred S. (Manfred Schanfarber); Murder, madness and the law (Book); Psychiatry and the law (Book); The best of husbands (Book); Sharpe, William PDF IMAGES
102	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Herbert, A.P.; Arnold Bennett (Book); Biography; Slaughter, Frank G.(Frank Gill); General Billy Mitchell (Book); Santayana, George; MacInnes, Helen; I and my true love (Book); My brother Bill (Book); Bottome, Phyllis; Pound, Reginald; Burlingame, Roger; Mitchell, Ruth; Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir; The challenge (Book); The complete Sherlock Holmes (Book); The Galileans (Book); Why Waterloo? (Book) PDF IMAGES
103-104	The new recordings/Review The sweat and the drama By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Britten, Benjamin; Bizet: Jeux d'enfants (Petite suite, op. 22). Chabrier: Suite pastorale (Sound recording); Braithwaite; Britten: A ceremony of carols; Te deum in C; Hymn to St. Cecelia (Sound recording); Callaway; Chabrier; Delmar, Desider; Kloss, Erich; Bizet, Georges; Hollywood composers: La Violette: Music from the High Sierras. Delmar: Hungarian sketches. Schoop, March ballet. Laszio: Improvisations on “Oh, Susannah” (Sound recording); László, Magda; Motion picture music; Mozart: Piano music: Sonata in F, K. 533; Rondo, K. 494; Adagio, K. 540; Fantasy and fugue in C, K. 394; Rondo, K. 485 (Sound recording); Mozart: Sonata in B flat, K. 570; Fantasy and fugue in C, K. 394; Suite in C, K. 399 (Sound recording); Badura-Skoda, Paul; Performances; Kirkpatrick, Ralph; Schoop; La Violette, Wesley; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES