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November 1953

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Sam Norkin SEE ALSO: Suburban homes PDF IMAGES
4-6	Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Career as editor of Harper's; Editors; Allen, Frederick Lewis; Fischer, John PDF IMAGES
6-19	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Portraits PDF IMAGES
17-19	Personal and otherwise/Article Textbook in a shack By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Frontier and pioneer life; Bates, Jeanette; South Dakota PDF IMAGES
19	Personal and otherwise/Article Congratulations, Mr. LePage By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: LePage, Laurence; Views on convertiplanes PDF IMAGES
20-22	Letters/Department Letters On Moral struggles, from September 1953: Letter By Betsey Omansky Letter By Elaine Navarre PDF IMAGES
25-32	Article The mass-produced suburbs: I. How people live in America's newest towns By Harry Henderson SEE ALSO: Suburban homes; Suburban life; Suburbanites PDF IMAGES
32	Poem Moment's monument By Anne Goodwin Winslow PDF IMAGES
33-38	Fiction The seducers: A fragment By Katherine Anne Porter PDF IMAGES
39-44	Article Big botch at Savannah River By George McMillan SEE ALSO: Housing policy; Industrial housing; Location; Nuclear facilities; South Carolina PDF IMAGES
45-48	The easy chair/Article Notes on western travel By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Automobile travel; Popular culture; Restaurants PDF IMAGES
49-55	Article The Englishman laughs By V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett SEE ALSO: Powell, Anthony; Criticism and interpretation; English wit and humor; Compton-Burnett, I. (Ivy); Cary, Joyce; Firbank, Ronald; Lewis, Wyndham PDF IMAGES
55	Poem At tidemark By Elizabeth Enright PDF IMAGES
56-62	Article Seeing the world with Stevenson: Twenty questions and their answers By William Attwood SEE ALSO: Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing); Journeys—Europe and Asia; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
63-67	Article Church and state: An American Catholic tradition By John Tracy Ellis SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Church and state PDF IMAGES
67	Article The natural superiority of women SEE ALSO: Norway; Women travelers PDF IMAGES
68-75	Fiction The pen friend: A story By Wilmer Hamilton PDF IMAGES
76-81	Article Cincinnati: The city that licked corruption By William H. Hessler SEE ALSO: Cincinnati; Cincinnati (Ohio); Municipal government; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
81-83	Article Washington RIF By Ruth Adams SEE ALSO: Civil service; Downsizing of organizations PDF IMAGES
83	Article Advice for 1953 SEE ALSO: Leanness; Weight gain PDF IMAGES
84-89	Article Evolution up to date By Ruth E. Moore SEE ALSO: Fossil hominids; Human beings; Human evolution; Origin; Piltdown forgery PDF IMAGES
90-91	After hours/Article Prudery, publicity, and pioneers By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Art patronage—Humor; Saint-Gaudens, Augustus; Peale, Charles Willson; Female nude in art; Oregon; Public sculpture; Salem PDF IMAGES
91-93	After hours/Article The big picture By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: The robe (Motion picture); Wide-screen processes (Cinematography) PDF IMAGES
94-102	New books/Review Voyages of imagination By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: A handful of blackberries (Book); A sunset touch (Book); All done from memory (Book); Tutuola, Amos; François, André; Thirkell, Angela; By land and by sea (Book); Conquest of the moon (Book); Ryan, Cornelius; Connolly, Cyril; Roberts, Dorothy James; Wakeman, Frederic; Lamming, George; Webster, Harold Tucker; Spring, Howard; Ideas and places (Book); Silone, Ignazio; In the castle of my skin (Book); Corbett, Jim; Jungle lore (Book); Jutland Cottage (Book); Lord Vanity (Book); Mandrake root (Book); Palm-wine drinkard (Book); Frankau, Pamela; Morison, Samuel Eliot; Shellabarger, Samuel; Lancaster, Osbert, Sir; Frazee, Steve; The best humor from Punch (Book); The best of H.T. Webster (Book); The enchanted cup (Book); The offshore light (Book); The sky block (Book); The tattooed sailor (Book); Cole, William PDF IMAGES
102-104	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A law for the lion (Book); Taylor, Elizabeth; Galatea (Book); Durrell, Gerald Malcolm; Cain, James M.; Auchincloss, Louis; Van Doren, Mark; Gordimer, Nadine; Nobody say a word and other stories (Book); The boat (Book); The lying days (Book); The overloaded ark (Book); The sleeping beauty (Book); Gibson, Walter PDF IMAGES
104	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Aaron Copland (Book); Alexander Hamilton (Book); Berger, Arthur; Case, Belle; Benjamin Franklin (Book); Caruso: the man of Naples and the voice of gold (Book); Dreams of glory (Book); La Follette, Fola; Gandhi (Book); Hans Christian Andersen (Book); Ickes, Harold; Henry Ford (Book); Hacker, Louis Morton; Shepard, Odell; Pogo three (Book); Robert A. Taft (Book); Robert LaFollette (Book); Burlingame, Roger; Godden, Rumer; Holbrook, Stewart; Ybarra, T.R. (Thomas Russell); The age of the moguls (Book); The first thousand days (Book); Sheean, Vincent; Kelly, Walt; White, William Smith; Steig, William PDF IMAGES
105-112	The new recordings/Review Craft hi-fi By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Honegger, Arthur; Bach: Unaccompanied sonatas and partitas (complete) (Sound recording); Bamberg Symphony; Debussy, Claude; Debussy: La Boîte à joujoux. Ibert: Histoires (Sound recording); Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich; Lehmann, Fritz; Handel, George Frideric; Haas; Handel: Overture suite; Two arias for two horns; Gavotte; March (Sound recording); Handel: The faithful shepherd (Il pastor fido) (Sound recording); Handel: The twelve concerti grossi, op. 6 (Sound recording); High-fidelity sound systems; Honegger: Symphonie liturgique (Sound recording); Ibert, Jacques; Heifetz, Jascha; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Kondrashin, Kirill Petrovich; Engel, Lehman; Pressler, Menahem; Shostakovich: Symphony #1 (Sound recording); State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R.; Stoschek, Walter PDF IMAGES