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August 1954

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Bernard Perlin SEE ALSO: Cameroon PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On How they saved New York, from June 1954: Letter By Frank X. Steggert PDF IMAGES
8-15	The easy chair/Article Yankee reserve By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Cape Cod (Mass.); Conversation analysis; New Englanders PDF IMAGES
16-19	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
19	Personal and otherwise/Article Tip for gamblers By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Election forecasting; 1867-1959 PDF IMAGES
23-29	Article The fight for the Senate By William Smith White SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; Elections, 1954; 1953-1961; Politics, Practical; The Republican Party; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
30-35	Article The king and his beasts: Part I By Gerald Malcolm Durrell SEE ALSO: Bafut (African people); Cameroon; Durrell, Gerald Malcolm; Hunters; Journeys—Cameroon; Wild animal collecting PDF IMAGES
35	Poem Godiva By Anne Goodwin Winslow PDF IMAGES
36-43	Article Indonesia: The fabulous experiment By Cameron Hawley SEE ALSO: Career as Indonesian president; Indonesia; Islam; Literacy; 1953-1961; Revolution, 1945-1949; Sukarno PDF IMAGES
43	Poem I'm apt to be surly getting up early By C.S. Jennison PDF IMAGES
44-48	Article A man named Steinberg By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Artists; Cartoonists; Criticism and interpretation; Steinberg, Saul; Wit and humor, Pictorial PDF IMAGES Collection [untitled] PDF IMAGES
48-52	Illustration Steinberg's America By Saul Steinberg SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Frontier and pioneer life; Harlem (New York, New York); Las Vegas (Nev.) PDF IMAGES
53-59	Article Philadelphia's lost tribe By Mary Roche SEE ALSO: Assimilation (Sociology); Career in anthropology; Ethnic relations; Kalmyks; Borman, Leonard; Philadelphia (Pa.); Refugees, Political PDF IMAGES
60-65	Fiction A wand'ring minstrel By Nadine Gordimer PDF IMAGES
66-74	Article Conservation: Down and on the way out By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Conservation of natural resources; Decentralization in government; 1953-1961; National parks and reserves; Public utilities; Soil conservation; United States. Rural Electrification Administration PDF IMAGES
75-82	Article The plane that won't wear out By Richard Kermit Waldo and Herbert J. Guth SEE ALSO: Aerial operations, American; Aeronautics, Commercial; Douglas DC-3 (Transport plane) PDF IMAGES
83-87	Article Psychosomatic medicine: Part II By Ian Stevenson SEE ALSO: Medicine, Psychosomatic; Mental healing; Psychotherapy; Sick; Spiritual healing PDF IMAGES
88-91	Article Math's a pleasure By Mario George Salvadori SEE ALSO: Mathematical recreations; Mathematics; Word problems (Mathematics) PDF IMAGES
91	Article One man's goose is another man's yam SEE ALSO: Definition (Logic); Geese PDF IMAGES
92-93	After hours/Article Pot hunters By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Archaeological thefts; Southwest, New PDF IMAGES
93-95	After hours/Review The big sell By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Kazan, Elia; Brando, Marlon; Motion pictures; On the waterfront (Motion picture); Performances PDF IMAGES
95	After hours/Article Worry-worry-worry By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Stomach; Worry PDF IMAGES
96-101	The new books/Review Despotism and liberty By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: American ways of life (Book); Art under a dictatorship (Book); Stewart, George; McInnes, Graham; Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut; Gouzenko, Igor; Podro, Joshua; Hartley, L.P. (Leslie Poles); Singh, Madanjeet; Black, Mervyn; Paintings from Ajanta caves (Book); Graves, Robert; The fall of a titan (Book); The go-between (Book); The lost island (Book); The Nazarene gospel (Book); Unto a good land (Book); Moberg, Vilhelm PDF IMAGES
101-102	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A child of the century (Book); A wreath for the enemy (Book); Rose, Anna Maria Rose; Hecht, Ben; Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson; Daniels, Jonathan; Laski, Marghanita; Frankau, Pamela; The dollmaker (Book); The end of innocence (Book); The gentle house (Book); The Victorian chaise longue (Book) PDF IMAGES
102	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Goodfriend, Arthur; Smith, Chard Powers; Saveth, Edward N.(Edward Norman); Cowley, Malcolm; Pratt, Richard; Lynes, Russell; The literary situation (Book); The second treasury of early American homes (Book); The tastemakers (Book); The Yankees and God (Book); Understanding the American past (Book); What is America (Book) PDF IMAGES
103-104	The new recordings/Review Tape records for the home By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Audiotapes; Berlin Chamber Choirs; Delius: A mass of life (Sound recording); Delius, Frederick; Handel, George Frideric; Handel: Belshazzar (Sound recording); Grischkat, Hans; Haydn: The creation (Sound recording); Haydn, Joseph; London Philharmonic Choir; Magnetic recorders and recording; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Beecham, Thomas, Sir PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Nobel, Felix de; Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da; Netherlands Chamber Choir; Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli. Choral music from the lowlands (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES