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April 1954

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Ben Shahn SEE ALSO: Prisons PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters PDF IMAGES
10-15	The easy chair/Article Norwalk and points west By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Civil Rights; Foreign correspondents; Foreign public opinion, European; Norwalk; Veterans PDF IMAGES
16-21	Personal and otherwise/Article How to place bets in the corporation sweepstakes By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Chief executive officers; Industrial management PDF IMAGES
21	Personal and otherwise/Article Psycholitter By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Kittens; Psychiatrists; Westchester County PDF IMAGES [Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
25-28	Article The reputation of the government By Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Political corruption; Political ethics; Representative government and representation PDF IMAGES
28	Poem Fairy tale By Martha Sherman Bacon PDF IMAGES
29-38	Article Prison: The enemy of society By John Bartlow Martin SEE ALSO: Criminals; Mental health services; Prison administration; Prison riots; Prisoners; Rehabilitation PDF IMAGES
38	Article Creeping efficiency SEE ALSO: 1953-1961; Office practice in government PDF IMAGES
39-41	Article How to make chicken liver pâté once By Sylvia Wright SEE ALSO: Cookery (Leftovers) PDF IMAGES
42-49	Article The origins of psychoanalysis: Unpublished personal letters (part I) By Sigmund Freud, Eric Mosbacher (Trans.), and James Strachey (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Austria; Correspondence; Psychoanalysts; Freud, Sigmund; Vienna; Fliess, Wilhelm PDF IMAGES
50-53	Fiction Aunt Gertrude: A story By Shirley Jackson PDF IMAGES
54-60	Article Cavalry, and I don't mean horses By James M. (James Maurice) Gavin SEE ALSO: Armored troops; Cavalry; Korean War, 1950-1953 PDF IMAGES
61-67	Fiction No enemy but time: A story By Maurice Rowdon PDF IMAGES
67	Poem Easter morning By Brendan Gill PDF IMAGES
68-73	Article The baffling career of Robert E. Wood By Irving P. (Irving Peter) Pflaum SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Big business; Business and politics; Businessmen; Career as chairman of Sear, Roebuck & Co.; Wood, Robert Elkington PDF IMAGES
73	Article Speaking as a Republican President . . . By Theodore Roosevelt SEE ALSO: Political ethics PDF IMAGES
74-75	Article F.L.A. (1890-1954) SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Editors; Allen, Frederick Lewis PDF IMAGES
76-82	Article How language shapes our thoughts By Stuart Chase SEE ALSO: Whorf, Benjamin Lee; Career in linguistics; Hopi language PDF IMAGES
83-84	Article Babel among friends By John Sack SEE ALSO: Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; United Nations PDF IMAGES
85-88	Article Business parties . . . and the free-loader By John Brooks SEE ALSO: Business entertaining PDF IMAGES
88	Poem Maine conclusion By Florence Burrill Jacobs PDF IMAGES
89-90	After hours/Article A lode of Bach By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
90	After hours/Article Sour grapes By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in television—Humor; Elevator operators; Allen, Fred; Quiz shows PDF IMAGES After hours/Article Realism revived By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Book covers; Career in book cover design; Avati, James PDF IMAGES
92	After hours/Article Rich uncle By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Games PDF IMAGES
93-100	The new books/Review Welcome spring By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: Boucher, Anthony; Bhowani Junction (Book); Cassell's encyclopaedia of world literature (Book); Barnhart, Clarence Lewis; Windsor, Edward, Duke of; Walter, Eugene; Kerr, Geoffrey; God's country and mine (Book); McComas, J. Francis; Barzun, Jacques; Masters, John; Hayes, Joseph Arnold; Moscow (Book); Peter Domanig in America: steel (Book); Berton, Pierre; Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott; Steinberg, S.H.(Sigfrid Henry); Scenes and portraits (Book); Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns); The best from fantasy and science fiction (Book); The confidential clerk (Book); The crown and the people (Book); The desperate hours (Book); The new century cyclopedia of names (Book); The New Testament (Book); The royal family (Book); The untidy pilgrim (Book); Plivier, Theodor; Under the influence (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; White, Victor PDF IMAGES
94	Notice [Untitled Notice] By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Highet, Gilbert PDF IMAGES
100-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A writer's diary (Book); Kimbrough, Emily; Linklater, Eric; Forty plus and fancy free (Book); Haley, Glen; Scott, J.D.; Woolf, Leonard; The end of an old song (Book); The fascinator (Book); The house of Gair (Book); The wrong woman (Book); Keogh, Theodora; Woolf, Virginia PDF IMAGES
101	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A time to live and a time to die (Book); Aga Khan III; Stroem, Alain; Ward, Barbara; Biography; Don't tread on me (Book); Elizabeth (Book); Fromm, Erich; Remarque, Erich Maria; Priestley, J.B. (John Boynton); Cochran, Jacqueline; Steinbeck, John; Never victorious, never defeated (Book); Of whales and men (Book); Robertson, R.B. (Robert Blackwood); Jackson, Shirley; Springs of freedom (Book); Stranger come home (Book); Sweet Thursday (Book); Taylor Caldwell; The magicians (Book); The memoirs of the Aga Khan (Book); The sane society (Book); The voyage of the Hérétique (Book); Lie, Trygve; Karig, Walter; Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence) PDF IMAGES
102-103	The new recordings/Review Taking it straight By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Budapest Quartet; Beinum, Eduard van; Swarowsky, Hans; Haydn: Symphony #44 (“Trauersymphonies”); Symphony #48 (“Maria Theresa”) (Sound recording); Haydn: Symphony #96 (“Miracle”); Symphony #97 (Sound recording); Haydn, Joseph; Wöldike, Mogens; Mozart: Piano concerto #20 in D minor, K. 466; Piano concerto #9 in E flat, K. 271 (Sound recording); Mozart: Piano trio #2; Piano trio #1, K. 502; Piano trio #1, K. 496 (Sound recording); Mozart: Symphony #41 (“Jupiter”); Symphony #35 (“Prague”) (Sound recording); Mozart: The six “Haydn” quartets (Sound recording); Music audiences; Badura-Skoda, Paul; Performances; Pittsburgh Symphony; Pro Musica Symphony; Steinberg, William; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Copland, Aaron; Ballet Theater Orchestra; Bloch: String quartet #2 (Sound recording); Bloomfield; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Copland: Appalachian spring suite; El Salon Mexico (Sound recording); Copland: Billy the Kid. Schuman: Undertow (Sound recording); Shostakovich, Dmitriæi Dmitrievich; Bloch, Ernest; Oubradous, Fernand; Hollreiser, Heinrich; Stravinsky, Igor; Levine; London Philharmonic Choir; Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra; Sessions, Roger; Koussevitzky, Serge; Shostakovich: Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings; Piano sonata #2 (Sound recording); Boult, Adrian, Sir; Stravinsky: Apollon musagète; Pulcinella suite (Sound recording); Stravinsky: L'Histoire du soldat (Sound recording); Vienna Chamber Orchestra; Thomson, Virgil; Virgil Thomson: Variations on Sunday school tunes. Roger Sessions: Chorale; Three chorale preludes (Sound recording); Walton: Belshazzar's feast (Sound recording); Schuman, William; Walton, William PDF IMAGES