Harper's Magazine: February 1953

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February 1953

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	Illustration [Cover art] By M.D. Glanzman PDF IMAGES
4-13	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Financial crises PDF IMAGES
15-19	Advertising Supplement The advancing rails By William T. Faricy SEE ALSO: Freight; Passenger traffic PDF IMAGES
20-23	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from December 1952: Letter By Henry R. Gonner PDF IMAGES
25-30	Article Are we headed for a depression? By Sumner H. (Sumner Huber) Slichter SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Business cycles; Economic indicators; Financial crises PDF IMAGES
30	Poem Song of three smiles By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
31-40	Article Sea monsters and sharks at eye level By Jacques Yves Cousteau and Frédéric Dumas SEE ALSO: Fishing nets; Mediterranean Sea; Octopus; Sea monsters; Shark attacks; Sharks; Tuna fishing; Whales PDF IMAGES
40	Article It's a nice place to visit, but . . . By Michel de Montaigne SEE ALSO: Athens (Greece); Quotations; Socrates PDF IMAGES
41-45	Fiction The martyr: A story By Frank O'Connor PDF IMAGES
46-52	Article The Upper Bohemians By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Bohemianism PDF IMAGES
52	Poem To my geese By Anne Goodwin Winslow PDF IMAGES
53-56	The easy chair/Article Billion dollar jackpot By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Administration; Land grants; Pasture, Right of; Public lands PDF IMAGES
57-65	Article Europe's quiet corner: The Scandinavian countries today By George Soloveytchik SEE ALSO: Denmark; German occupation, 1940-1945; Norway; Scandinavia; Sweden PDF IMAGES
66-70	Article Go slow on fluoridation! By James Rorty SEE ALSO: Public health; Water PDF IMAGES
71-76	Article Map the world By Charles Lester Walker SEE ALSO: Aeronautical charts; Cartography; Latin America; Road maps; Surveys PDF IMAGES
77-85	Fiction The red mountain: A story By Robert Payne PDF IMAGES
86-93	Article America's submerged class: The migrants By Mary Heaton Vorse SEE ALSO: Illegal aliens; Mexicans; Migrant agricultural laborers PDF IMAGES
93-95	Article Portraits from memory: III By Bertrand Russell SEE ALSO: Biography; Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert); Pacifists PDF IMAGES
96-97	After hours/Article Side arena seat By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Richards, Bob; Career in track-athletics; Gehrmann, Don; Indoor track-athletics PDF IMAGES
97-98	After hours/Article What is illustration? By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; Magazine illustration; Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn PDF IMAGES
98-99	After hours/Article Playing with nails By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Frisch, Abe; Knowledge—Musique concrète; Musique concrète PDF IMAGES
100-107	New books/Review People, puppets, and poetry By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: Nisbet, Ada; Harbage, Alfred; Johnson, Alvin Saunders; Always the young strangers (Book); Selinko, Annemarie; Sandburg, Carl; Charles Dickens: his tragedy and triumph (Book); Désirée (Book); Dickens and Ellen Ternan (Book); Johnson, Edgar; Slaughter, Frank G.(Frank Gill); Greene, Graham; Creekmore, Hubert; Masters, John; Phillips, John; Little treasury of world poetry (Book); Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan; Pioneer's progress (Book); Shakespeare and the rival traditions (Book); The Galileans (Book); The heart of Charles Dickens (Book); The lotus and the wind (Book); The second happiest day (Book); The shipwrecked (Book); The sojourner (Book) PDF IMAGES
107-109	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Annapurna (Book); Samuels, Charles; Blum, Daniel C.; Throm, Edward L.(Edward Louis); Peters, Fritz; From Main Street to Stockholm: letters of Sinclair Lewis 1919-1930 (Book); Great stars of the American stage: a pictorial record (Book); Smith, Harrison; Lady on the beach (Book); Sharp, Margery; Herzog, Maurice; Henrey, Robert, Mrs.; Berg, Norah; Popular Mechanics picture history of American transportation (Book); Park, Ruth; Lewis, Sinclair; The descent (Book); The flowering thorn (Book); The little Madeleine: the autobiography of a young French girl (Book); The witch's thorn (Book) PDF IMAGES
109	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Abraham Lincoln (Book); Santayana, George; Simenon, Georges; Fowler, Helen; Agar, Herbert; Mary Todd: biography of a marriage (Book); My host the world (Book); Marshall, Rosamond; Randall, Ruth Painter; Satan's children (Book); Beauvoir, Simone de; The general's wench (Book); The intruder (Book); The laughing matter (Book); The return of Lanny Budd (Book); The second sex (Book); The sign of Jonas (Book); Merton, Thomas; Upton Sinclair; Saroyan, William PDF IMAGES
110-112	The new recordings/Review Song among the cycles By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Fistoulari, Anatole; Kostelanetz, André; Columbia Symphony; Dohnányi, Erno; Jacquinot, Fabienne; Liszt, Franz; Stiedry, Fritz; Bizet, Georges; Jones, Geraint; Purcell, Henry; Offenbach, Jacques; Morel, Jean-Paul; Tourel, Jennie; Flagstad, Kirsten; Leibowitz; Liszt: Todtentanz. Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano concerto (Sound recording); Lund; Rosenthal, Manuel; Dobbs, Mattiwilda; Mozart: Il re pastore, K. 208 (Sound recording); Mozart: Women are like that (Cosi fan tutte) (Sound recording); Mozart: Zaide, K. 344 (Sound recording); Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay; Offenbach: La belle Hélène (Sound recording); Offenbach: La vie Parisienne, arr. Rosenthal. Bizet: Four mezzo arias from Carmen (Sound recording); Paris Philharmonic; Performances; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Philharmonia Orchestra of London; Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Sound recording); Strauss, Richard; Strauss: Burleske. Dohnanyi: Variations on a nursery theme (Sound recording); Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet; Four waltzes (Sound recording); Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES