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January 1954

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Robert Chesley Osborn SEE ALSO: Downhill skiing PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Moral struggles, from September 1953: Letter By George Chalmers PDF IMAGES
8-15	The easy chair/Article My career as a lawbreaker By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Liquor industry; Prohibition; Smuggling PDF IMAGES
16-20	Personal and otherwise/Article Reckless forecasts for '54 By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Forecasts PDF IMAGES
20	Personal and otherwise/Article The better ad man By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Bible; Publication and distribution PDF IMAGES
23-28	Article Ike's plan to stop a depression By Helen Hill Miller SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Depressions; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Economic forecasting; 1945-1960; 1953-1961; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
28	Article The age of flight SEE ALSO: Air mail service PDF IMAGES
29-35	Article New Mexico cashes in By Albert Rosenfeld SEE ALSO: Ethnic relations; Growth; New Mexico; Nuclear industry PDF IMAGES
36-40	Article Death of a king By Eaton G. Davis SEE ALSO: Animal welfare; Children and animals PDF IMAGES
41-48	Article The odds on communism in India By Chester Bowles SEE ALSO: Communism PDF IMAGES
49-54	Article The secret life of a man on skis By George H. Weltner SEE ALSO: Risk-taking (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
55-59	Article Get a good scientist . . . and let him alone By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Creative ability in science PDF IMAGES
59	Article Anyhow, we invented chlorophyll . . . SEE ALSO: Bad breath PDF IMAGES
60	Article The easy way out By Robert Berkowitz SEE ALSO: Korean War, 1950-1953; Loyalty oaths; Recruiting, enlistment, etc.; Veterans PDF IMAGES
61-69	Article Notes on a genius: Sinclair Lewis at his best By Dale Warren SEE ALSO: Biography; Thompson, Dorothy; Marriage; Lewis, Sinclair PDF IMAGES
69	Poem January 2, morning By John Ciardi PDF IMAGES
70-77	Article The Germans: Their cause and cure By Milton Sanford Mayer SEE ALSO: Antisemitism; Journeys—Germany; Mayer, Milton Sanford; National characteristics, German; National socialism; Nazis; Working class PDF IMAGES
78-84	Fiction Maiden in a tower: A story By Wallace Earle Stegner PDF IMAGES
85-90	Article Who'll pay the postage? By Stacy V. Jones SEE ALSO: Advertising, Direct-mail; Costs; Legislative hearings; Postal rates; Postal service; Second-class matter PDF IMAGES
91-92	After hours/Article Untouched by human feet By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Consumer behavior; Marketing; Wine and wine making PDF IMAGES
92-93	After hours/Article Every man his own Musak By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Environmental music; Marketing; Sound recording industry PDF IMAGES
93-94	After hours/Article Folklore and the corporation By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Big business; Kaufman, George S. (George Simon); Teichmann, Howard; Hull, Josephine; Performances; Solid gold cadillac (Play) PDF IMAGES
94	After hours/Article Ticket By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Québec (Province); Traffic violations PDF IMAGES After hours/Article Item By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Corsets; Lingerie PDF IMAGES
95-100	New books/Review Now flows from then By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Bestor, Arthur Eugene; Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav); Complete stories (Book); Educational wastelands (Book); Lipsky, Eleazar; Caldwell, Erskine; Let's talk sense about our schools (Book); Lincoln McKeever (Book); Gellhorn, Martha; Woodring, Paul; Psychological reflections (Book); Hutchins, Robert Maynard; Churchill, Winston, Sir; The conflict in education in a democratic society (Book); The honeyed peace (Book); The passionate North (Book); Triumph and tragedy (Book); Sansom, William PDF IMAGES
100-102	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan); In for life (Book); Hulme, Kathryn; Next time for life (Book); Warren, Paul; The hill of Devi (Book); The wild place (Book); Runyon, Tom PDF IMAGES
102	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Wilkinson, Burke; Dark crusade (Book); Montagu, Ewen; Zilboorg, Gregory; Harrer, Heinrich; Fox, James M.; Morris, Jean; Hayes, Joseph Arnold; Last clear chance (Book); Seven years in Tibet (Book); The desperate hours (Book); The man who never was (Book); The murderer (Book); The psychology of the criminal act and punishment (Book) PDF IMAGES
103-104	The new recordings/Review Folk music By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Summers, Andrew Rowan; Anglo-American ballads (Sound recording); Lunceford, Bascom Lamar; Bender, Bill; Jefferson, Blind Lemon; British traditional ballads in America; French traditional songs (Sound recording); Ives, Burl; Sandburg, Carl; Classics in jazz (Sound recording); Gooding, Cynthia; Folk music; Warner, Frank; Frank Warner sings American folk songs and ballads (Sound recording); Frontier ballads and cowboy songs (Sound recording); Nye, Hermes; Niles, John Jacob; White, Josh; Ferrier, Kathleen; Lead Belly; Mexican folk songs (Sound recording); Brand, Oscar; Oscar Brand: Back-room ballads (Sound recording); Performances; Queen of hearts: early English folk songs (Sound recording); Dyer-Bennet, Richard; Ginandes, Shep; Smoky Mountain ballads (Sound recording); The American songbag (Sound recording); Turkish and Spanish folk songs (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES