Harper's Magazine: October 1954

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October 1954

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Little boy Brummel, from September 1954: Letter By Edward Bruff PDF IMAGES
8-13	The easy chair/Article Culture at two bits By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Literature and morals; Paperback wholesalers; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
14-21	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
21	Personal and otherwise/Article Pass the brioches, Pappy! By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cookery, American; Ethnic restaurants PDF IMAGES
25-45	Article We accuse! By Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop SEE ALSO: Career as chairman of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Judicial error; Strauss, Lewis L.; National security; Nuclear physicists; Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Atomic Energy Commission PDF IMAGES
46-51	Article London in December By Martin Flavin SEE ALSO: Clubs; Journeys—England—London; Flavin, Martin; Theater audiences PDF IMAGES
51	Poem Sensical situation By Felicia Lamport PDF IMAGES
52-57	Article Missouri's one-family newspaper By Carol Lynn Gilmer SEE ALSO: Aull, Arthur Fabian; Career as newspaper editor; Van Hafften, Madeleine Aull; Newspaper editors PDF IMAGES
58-64	Fiction The ladies of the house: A story By Frank O'Connor PDF IMAGES
65-70	Article The king and his beasts: Part III By Gerald Malcolm Durrell SEE ALSO: Bafut (African people); Cameroon; Dance; Durrell, Gerald Malcolm; Hunters; Journeys—Cameroon; Wild animal collecting PDF IMAGES
71-80	Article The great Wall Street crash By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Depressions; 1929; Speculation; Stock Market Crash, 1929 PDF IMAGES
80	Poem Moving day By Lucretia Cole PDF IMAGES
81-83	Article The real menace of TV By Jane Whitbread and Vivian Cadden SEE ALSO: Parenting PDF IMAGES
83	Article Art for art's sake, or, the clincher SEE ALSO: Art, American; Collectors and collecting; Marketing PDF IMAGES
84-89	Article Italy's creeping communism By Luigi Giorgio Barzini SEE ALSO: Career in Italian Communist Party; Communism; 1945-1976; Togliatti, Palmiro PDF IMAGES
90-91	After hours/Article Pegasus unbound By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Automobile mechanics; Commerce; Service stations; Training of PDF IMAGES
91-92	After hours/Article Putter familias By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cleaning; Clothes closets; House cleaning PDF IMAGES
93-98	Review James T. Farrell: Moralist By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Farrell, James T.; Literature and morals; Naturalism in literature; The face of time (Book) PDF IMAGES
100-107	The new books/Review Success stories By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Gilbert, A.C. (Alfred Carlton); Adventure in freedom (Book); Aga Khan III; Leslie, Anita; Cecil, David; Faviell, Frances; In the name of sanity (Book); Dinneen, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis); Mumford, Lewis; McClintock, Marshall; Melbourne (Book); My life with the microbes (Book); Handlin, Oscar; Waksman, Selman A. (Selman Abraham); The anatomy of a crime (Book); The dancing bear (Book); The man who lives in paradise (Book); The memoirs of Aga Khan: world enough and time (Book); The remarkable Mr. Jerome (Book) PDF IMAGES
107-109	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A blessed girl (Book); A short history of music (Book); Camus, Albert; Einstein, Albert; Tocqueville, Alexis de; Gide, André; Death in Venice and seven other stories (Book); Democracy in America (Book); Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan); Hostovsky, Egon; Bentley, Eric; Highet, Gilbert; Bates, H.E. (Herbert Ernest); Howard's End (Book); In search of theater (Book); Tey, Josephine; Lutyens, Emily, Lady; Perspectives USA (American periodical); Hofstadter, Richard; The American political tradition (Book); The art of teaching (Book); The feast of July (Book); The immoralist (Book); The midnight patient (Book); The stranger (Book); Mann, Thomas; Three by Tey (Book); Stegner, Wallace Earle PDF IMAGES
109	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A world of love (Book); Amy Lowell (Book); An autobiography (Book); Shipp, Cameron; Marshall, Catherine; Maus, Cynthia Pearl; Frasier, Dudley; Muir, Edwin; Bowen, Elizabeth; Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson; Sheen, Fulton J.(Fulton John); Gregory, Horace; O'Hara, John; Johnny Appleseed: man and myth (Book); Life is worth living (Book); Love of seven dolls (Book); Mack Sennett, king of comedy (Book); Davenport, Marcia; Edes, Mary Elizabeth; Miller, Merle; My brother's keeper (Book); Gallico, Paul; Reunion (Book); Price, Robert; Sweet and sour (Book); The age of extravagance: an Edwardian reader (Book); The Old Testament and the fine arts (Book); The prayers of Peter Marshall (Book); The woman within (Book) PDF IMAGES
110-112	The new recordings/Review The spoken word on records By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Huxley, Aldous; Aldous Huxley: Excerpt from “Brave New World”; commentary on “Brave New World” (Sound recording); Isherwood, Christopher; Christopher Isherwood: Prater violet; The condor and the cows (excerpts); Berlin diary (Sound recording); Thomas, Dylan; Dylan Thomas in a reading from his work (Sound recording); Sackler, Howard O.; Sackler, Howard; O'Casey, Sean; Sean O'Casey, reading from Juno and the paycock; Pictures in the hallway; Inishfallen, fair thee well (Sound recording); Voice culture PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Dvorák, Antonín; Bavaria State Orchestra; Brahms: Sonata in F minor, op. 5 (1853) (Sound recording); Budapest Quartet; Curzon, Clifford; Shostakovich, Dmitriæi Dmitrievich; Dvorák: Piano quintet, op. 81 (Sound recording); Pflüger, Gerhard; Strauss, Johann; Brahms, Johannes; Kleinert; Badura-Skoda, Paul; Performances; Radio Berlin Symphony; Shostakovich: Symphony #1; Symphony #9 (Sound recording); Solti, Georg, Sir; Strauss: Elektra, highlights (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
111	The new recordings/Notice The new recordings SEE ALSO: Toscanini, Arturo; Career as conductor; Contests PDF IMAGES