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March 1953

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tom Funk SEE ALSO: Art exhibition audiences PDF IMAGES
4-16	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen PDF IMAGES
18-19	Letters/Department Letters On Enough of everyone, almost, from December 1952: Letter By Samuel F. Husat Letter By Gilbert Highet PDF IMAGES
23-30	Article What do the Democrats do now? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing); Career in politics; The Democratic Party; 1952-; 1953-1961; Politics, Practical PDF IMAGES
30	Poem Northeaster By Elizabeth Enright PDF IMAGES
31-40	Article The great mokusatsu mistake: Was this the deadliest error of our time? By William Jeremiah Coughlin SEE ALSO: Armistices; Bombardment, 1945; Errors, inventions, etc.; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Japanese language; Nagasaki-shi (Japan); Translating into English PDF IMAGES
40	Poem Saying good-by to a child By Sara Van Alstyne Allen PDF IMAGES
41-49	Fiction Artists in uniform: A story By Mary McCarthy PDF IMAGES
50-53	The easy chair/Article Twenty-hour vigil By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Television broadcasting PDF IMAGES
54-58	Article Russia and the West By Arnold Joseph Toynbee SEE ALSO: Cold War; Communism and international relations; East and West PDF IMAGES
58	Article Any subcommittee listening? By John Van Antwerp MacMurray SEE ALSO: 1912-1945; Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945 PDF IMAGES
59-64	Article Revolution in clothes By Fessenden Seaver Blanchard SEE ALSO: Color in clothing; Men's clothing; Sport clothes; Synthetic fibers industry PDF IMAGES
65-73	Article England's country houses: A heritage and a problem By C.V. (Cicely Veronica) Wedgwood SEE ALSO: Conservation and restoration; Country homes; Remodeling for other use PDF IMAGES
73	Article Of time and the Russians SEE ALSO: Affray PDF IMAGES
74-80	Article Taft-Hartley and the test of time By Ben Rathbun SEE ALSO: Industrial relations; Labor laws and legislation; Labor policy; 1945-1953 PDF IMAGES
81-85	Fiction Indigenous girls: A story By Donald R. Depew PDF IMAGES
86-91	Article Little men and flying saucers By Loren C. Eiseley SEE ALSO: Evolution (Biology); Life on other planets PDF IMAGES
92-94	Article Portraits from memory: IV By Bertrand Russell SEE ALSO: Webb, Beatrice Potter; Biography; Fabian Society (Great Britain); Webb, Sidney; Socialists PDF IMAGES
94	Article That new-fangled idea, conservation By Plato SEE ALSO: Conservation of natural resources; Deforestation PDF IMAGES
95-97	After hours/Article After hours By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Maisel, Arthur; Career as restaurateur; Restaurants; Restaurateurs PDF IMAGES
97-98	After hours/Article Dancing school By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Murray, Arthur; Career in dance schools PDF IMAGES
99-105	New books/Review Wide is the world By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: A house in Bryanston Square (Book); Acton's political philosophy (Book); African folktales and sculpture (Book); African sculpture speaks (Book); Cecil, Algernon; Palmer, Arnold; Au bon beurre (Book); Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron; Berenson, Bernard; Woodruff, Douglas; Clark, Eleanor; Ruggles, Eleanor; Marvel, Elinore J.; Empress of Byzantium (Book); Essays on church and state (Book); Fasnacht, G.E.; Trevelyan, George Macaulay; Himmelfarb, Gertrude; Half a dollar is better than none (Book); Mahler, Helen; Illustrated English social history (Book); Sweeney, James Johnson; Dutourd, Jean; Segy, Ladislas; Lord Acton: a study in conscience and politics (Book); Helm, MacKinley; Soloviev, Mikhail; Movable feasts (Book); Neely (Book); DiMinno, Nicholas; Radin, Paul; Quennell, Peter; Prince of players (Book); Chapman, R.W. (Robert William); Rome and a villa (Book); Duncan, Ronald Frederick Henry; Johnson, Samuel; Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir; Spring in Spain (Book); The blue fox (Book); The complete Sherlock Holmes (Book); The Italian painters of the Renaissance (Book); The letters of Samuel Johnson (Book); The singular preference (Book); The stones of the house (Book); Morrison, Theodore; Karig, Walter; When the gods are silent (Book) PDF IMAGES
106-108	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A good man (Book); Stefferud, Alfred; Dumas, Frédéric; Bates, H.E. (Herbert Ernest); MacInnes, Helen; Hull, Helen R. (Helen Rose); I and my true love (Book); Cousteau, Jacques Yves; Young, Jefferson; Landfall (Book); Love for Lydia (Book); Mary Lincoln, biography of a marriage (Book); My dear Timothy: an autobiographical letter to his grandson (Book); Bottome, Phyllis; Randall, Ruth Painter; The challenge (Book); The silent world (Book); The wonderful world of books (Book); Gollancz, Victor PDF IMAGES
108	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A fiddle, a sword and a lady (Book); A stranger here (Book); Spalding, Albert; Cushman, Dan; Kenyon, F.W. (Frank Wilson); Fowler, Helen; Karmel, Ilona; Kennedy, Jay Richard; Kingfishers catch fire (Book); Shute, Nevil; Prince Bart (Book); Henriques, Robert; Lehmann, Rosamond; Godden, Rumer; Stay away Joe (Book); Stephania (Book); The echoing grove (Book); The emperor's lady (Book); The intruder (Book); The struggles of Albert Woods (Book); 'Tis folly to be wise (Book); Cooper, William PDF IMAGES
110-111	The new recordings/Review The Golden Age and the seventeenth century By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: A tribute to Lotte Lehmann (Sound recording); Anerio; Schnabel, Artur; Bach: Two-violin concerto; Violin sonata in E (Sound recording); Berlin Chamber Choirs; Monteverdi, Claudio; Farnaby: Canzonets; Music for virginals (Sound recording); Peeters, Flor; Gesualdo; Gibbons: Two fantasias. Locke: Consort #6. Purcell: Pavane and Chacony (Sound recording); Gibbons: Two fantasias. Locke: Consort #6. Purcell: Pavane; Chacony (Sound recording); Farnaby, Giles; Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da; Gliere: Ilia mourometz (Sound recording); Schütz, Heinrich; Purcell, Henry; Italian madrigals (Gesualdo, Monteverdi) (Sound recording); Handl, Jacob; Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Lassus; Stokowski, Leopold; Lehmann, Lotte; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Locke, Matthew; Monteverdi: Magnificat: Excs. from Vespri della beata vergine (Sound recording); Motets (Gregorian, Gibbons, Byrd, Palestrina, Victoria, Sweelinck, Handl, Weelkes) (Sound recording); Mozart: Marriage of Figaro; Magic flute (Sound recording); Paganini, Nicolò; Gibbons, Orlando; Palestrina: Supplicationes. Works by Lassus, Byrd, Victoria, Anerio (Sound recording); Performances; Philadelphia Orchestra; Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a th. of Paganini; Piano concerto #1 (Sound recording); Randolph Singers; Gliere, Reinhold Moritsevich; Wagner, Richard; Schütz: St. Matthew passion (Sound recording); Schnabel plays Beethoven (Sound recording); Rachmaninoff, Sergei; Weelkes, Thomas; Victoria, Tomás Luis de; Wagner: Parsifal: Lohengrin excerpts (Sound recording); Byrd, William; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES