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December 1954

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Ben Shahn PDF IMAGES
3-6	Advertising supplement Canada: Aluminum supplier for the U.S.A. By Nathanael V. Davis SEE ALSO: Aluminum industry and trade; Commerce PDF IMAGES
7-8	Letters/Department Letters PDF IMAGES
10-16	The easy chair/Article Phaëthon on Gunsmoke Trail By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Haycox, Ernest; Heroes in literature; West (U.S.) in mass media; Western stories PDF IMAGES
18-20	Personal and otherwise/Article Hints for a new kind of congressional investigation By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cold War; Legislative hearings PDF IMAGES
20-22	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
22	Personal and otherwise/Article The hills By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Annapurna (Book); Hunt, John Hunt, Baron; Bible. O.T. Psalms; Christmas cards; Herzog, Maurice; The conquest of Everest (Book) PDF IMAGES
25-30	Article Do we have to give up smoking? By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Cancer; Lungs; Physiological effect; Tobacco; Tobacco habit PDF IMAGES
31-33	Article Protection for a tough racket By Cordelia Baird Gross SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Children of immigrants; Classroom environment; Problem children; Women teachers PDF IMAGES
34-40	Article Talmadge—the best southern governor? By George McMillan SEE ALSO: Career as Georgia governor; Governors; Talmadge, Herman E.(Herman Eugene) PDF IMAGES
41-47	Article The geisha girls of Ponto-cho By William Demby SEE ALSO: Geishas; Kyoto; Kyoto (Japan) PDF IMAGES
48	Article What a secretary of state really does By Dean Acheson SEE ALSO: Cabinet officers; Career as U.S. secretary of state; Acheson, Dean; Officials and employees; Staff; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
49-57	Article The jet-propelled couch: Part I By Robert Mitchell Lindner SEE ALSO: Case studies; Fantasy; Psychoanalysis; Psychoses PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
56	Poetry The river glideth . . . By Anthony Ostroff PDF IMAGES
58-60	Fiction The young man who came to visit: A story By Gretchen Damrosch Finletter PDF IMAGES
61-63	Article The passionate state of mind By Eric Hoffer SEE ALSO: Quotations, maxims, etc.; Social participation; Social psychology PDF IMAGES
64-72	Fiction A good investment: A story By Joyce Cary PDF IMAGES
73-75	After hours/Article For deposit, to the account of By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Buildings, structures, etc.; Public architecture PDF IMAGES
75-76	After hours/Article Mix master By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cinematography; Editing; Motion pictures PDF IMAGES
76	After hours/Article Carols for commerce By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Music in advertising PDF IMAGES
77-80	Review Mr. Graves' anti-Christ By Dwight Macdonald SEE ALSO: Bible. N.T. Gospels; Christianity; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Podro, Joshua; Origin; Graves, Robert; The Nazarene gospel restored (Book) PDF IMAGES
82-86	Review Christmas books for children: A discriminating appraisal of the season's brightest publications By Jennie D. (Jennie Dorothea) Lindquist SEE ALSO: Ajax, golden dog of the Australian bush (Book); Dalgliesh, Alice; Norton, Andre; Clark, Ann Nolan; Haskell, Arnold L. (Arnold Lionel); Lindgren, Astrid; At swords' points (Book); Banner in the sky (Book); Beady bear (Book); Ehrlich, Bettina; Beyond the pawpaw trees (Book); Bill Bergson lives dangerously (Book); Blue Canyon horse (Book); Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples); Carols for the twelve days of Christmas (Book); Coombs, Charles Ira; Chica (Book); Children's books; Cinderella (Book); Bishop, Claire Huchet; Freeman, Don; Shepard, Ernest H.(Ernest Howard); Averill, Esther Holden; Zion, Gene; Vaughan-Jackson, Genevieve; Going to the ballet (Book); Fischer, Hans; Hide and seek day (Book); Pyle, Howard; Procter, Ida; I'll be you and you be me (Book); Impunity Jane (Book); Ullman, James Ramsey; Smith, Janet Adam; Charlot, Jean; Jenny's birthday book (Book); Krush, Joe; Gibson, Katharine; Wibberley, Leonard; Bemelmans, Ludwig; Brown, Marcia; Graham, Margaret Bloy; Sanders, Margaret Webb; Brown, Margaret Wise; Benary-Isbert, Margot; Becket, Marta; Martin de Porres, hero (Book); Patchett, Mary E. (Mary Elwyn); Molesworth, Mary Louisa Stewart; Stolz, Mary; Sendak, Maurice; De Jong, Meindert; Brown, Palmer; Baynes, Pauline; Young, Percy M. (Percy Marshall); Piccolo (Book); Pray love, remember (Book); Professor Bull's umbrella (Book); Lawson, Robert; Rowan Farm (Book); Godden, Rumer; Krauss, Ruth; Scott, Sally; Skyrocketing into the unknown (Book); Snow (Book); Some merry adventures of Robin Hood (Book); Star performance, the story of the world's great ballerinas (Book); The birthday (Book); The cuckoo clock (Book); The epics of Everest (Book); The giant (Book); The high world (Book); The horse and his boy (Book); The Thanksgiving story (Book); The tough winter (Book); The wheel on the school (Book); The year of the Mintie May (Book); Bell, Thelma Harrington; Gergely, Tibor; To see the queen (Book); Terry, Walter; Wheel on the chimney (Book); Lipkind, William; Du Bois, William Pène PDF IMAGES
90-101	The new books/Review Nobel Prize winners and views of America By Joseph Henry Jackson SEE ALSO: Atoms in the family (Book); Evans, Bergen; Great river: the Rio Grande in American history (Book); Klute, Jeannette; Fermi, Laura; My several worlds (Book); Horgan, Paul; Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker); The spoor of spooks (Book); Woodland flowers (Book) PDF IMAGES
102-107	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Spectorsky, A.C.(Auguste C.); Always in Vogue (Book); An American in India (Book); Black power (Book); Willoughby, Charles Andrew; Chase, Edna Woolman; Newhouse, Edward; Taylor, Elizabeth; Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson; Schiaparelli, Elsa; Hunt, Frazier; Hester Lilly and 12 short stories (Book); Chase, Ilka; Redding, J. Saunders (Jay Saunders); Chamberlain, John; Bond, John R.; MacArthur: 1941-1951 (Book); Davenport, Marcia; Margin of error (Book); Borden, Mary; My brother's keeper (Book); Wright, Richard; Shocking life (Book); Sports cars in action (Book); The book of the sea (Book); The temptation of Roger Heriott (Book); The untold story of Douglas MacArthur (Book); The woman within (Book) PDF IMAGES
107	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: American science and invention (Book); Langevin, André; Bonjour tristesse (Book); Mankiewicz, Don M.; Dust over the city (Book); Sagan, Françoise; Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair); Wilson, Mitchell; The secret diary of Harold L. Ickes: the lowering clouds (Book); Trial (Book) PDF IMAGES
109-112	The new recordings/Review The parts and the whole By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Dorati, Antal; Rodzinski, Artur; Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (Sound recording); Brahms: Complete sonatas for violin and piano (Sound recording); Walter, Bruno; Franck, César; Detroit Symphony; Franck: Symphony in D minor; Le chasseur maudit (Sound recording); Liszt, Franz; Fauré, Gabriel; Berlioz, Hector; High-fidelity systems; Brahms, Johannes; Ravel, Maurice; Minneapolis Symphony; New York Philharmonic; Orchestral music of Brahms (Sound recording); Paray, Paul; Phonograph; Ravel: La valse. Fauré: Pavane. Franck: Psyché (Sound recording); Schumann, Robert; Schumann: Symphony #4. Liszt: Les preludes (Sound recording); Vienna State Opera Orchestra PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: An adventure in high-fidelity (Sound recording); Russell, Anna; Anna Russell's guide to concert audiences (Sound recording); Scherchen, Hermann; London Symphony; Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Bennett, Robert Russell; Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien. Rimsky-Korsakoff: Capriccio espagnol (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES