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1954

January	Selected Articles The secret life of a man on skis By George H. Weltner Reckless forecasts for '54 By John Fischer Fiction Maiden in a tower: A story By Wallace Earle Stegner Poetry January 2, morning By John Ciardi
February	Selected Articles Syngman Rhee: The free man's burden By Frank Gibney Parks and pictures By Bernard Augustine De Voto Fiction The wanton troopers: A story By Max Steele Poetry The shepherd and the sea By Jean de La Fontaine The pot of clay and the pot of iron By Jean de La Fontaine
March	Selected Articles Intramural giveaway By Bernard Augustine De Voto J. Edgar Hoover and the politicians By John Fischer Fiction The scar: A story By Nadine Gordimer Poetry Hmm . . . By Felicia Lamport To a new icon By Harold W. Smith
April	Selected Articles Prison: The enemy of society By John Bartlow Martin Norwalk and points west By Bernard Augustine De Voto Fiction Aunt Gertrude: A story By Shirley Jackson No enemy but time: A story By Maurice Rowdon Poetry Fairy tale By Martha Sherman Bacon Easter morning By Brendan Gill
May	Selected Articles The arithmetic of foreign affairs By John Fischer Fiction The operator: A story By Elizabeth Enright Poetry Doomsday By Sylvia Plath Bargain By Felicia Lamport
June	Selected Articles The real Mafia By Luigi Giorgio Barzini How they saved New York By John Fischer Fiction The true confessions of Henry Pell By John Cheever A white lie: A story By William Sansom Poetry In humbleness By Daniel Hoffman Proverbs of a humanist By Albert J. (Albert Joseph) Guérard
July	Selected Articles Carmine G. DeSapio: The smile on the face of the tiger By Robert L. Heilbroner Recovery from the plague By John Fischer Fiction The dinner party: A story By Gretchen Damrosch Finletter Poetry The gar By Charles G. Bell Lethe By Charles G. Bell
August	Selected Articles The king and his beasts: Part I By Gerald Malcolm Durrell [various] By John Fischer Fiction A wand'ring minstrel By Nadine Gordimer Poetry Godiva By Anne Goodwin Winslow I'm apt to be surly getting up early By C.S. Jennison
September	Selected Articles Covering the World Series By Charles Einstein And fractions drive me mad By Bernard Augustine De Voto Fiction A soft answer: A story By John Downing Weaver Poetry Troubled, frustrated— By Leonard Bacon Pater familias By Phyllis McGinley
October	Selected Articles [various] By John Fischer Fiction The ladies of the house: A story By Frank O'Connor Poetry Sensical situation By Felicia Lamport Moving day By Lucretia Cole
November	Selected Articles [various] By John Fischer Fiction The mask: A story By Storm Jameson Poetry Go get the goodly squab By Sylvia Plath Evitable plight By Felicia Lamport
December	Selected Articles Phaëthon on Gunsmoke Trail By Bernard Augustine De Voto Hints for a new kind of congressional investigation By John Fischer Fiction The young man who came to visit: A story By Gretchen Damrosch Finletter A good investment: A story By Joyce Cary Poetry The river glideth . . . By Anthony Ostroff