Harper's Magazine: January 1955

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January 1955

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By N.M. Bodecker SEE ALSO: Cornucopias PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On What I saw in Red China, from November 1954: Letter By F. Olin Stockwell On Culture at two bits, from October 1954: Letter By Stanley Kauffman PDF IMAGES
12-17	The easy chair/Article One-way partnership derailed By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Democratic Party; Echo Park Dam (Colo.); Elections, 1954; Management; 1953-1961; National parks and reserves; United States. Congress; United States. Rural Electrification Administration PDF IMAGES
18-19	Advertising supplement The corporate alumnus program: A new plan for college giving By Philip D. (Philip Dunham) Reed SEE ALSO: Alumni and alumnae; Charitable contributions; Corporations; Educational fund raising; General Electric; Social responsibility of business PDF IMAGES
20-21	Personal and otherwise/Article The ghost that won't lie down By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. secretary of state; Career in U.S. State Department; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Dulles, John Foster; Davies, John Paton; Officials and employees; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
21-22	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
22	Personal and otherwise/Article Prescription for congressmen By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Baldness; Calcutta; Hair growth stimulants; Temper; Toilet preparations PDF IMAGES
25-32	Article The future of Mendès-France By Edmond Taylor SEE ALSO: Career as French prime minister; 1945-1958; Mendès-France, Pierre; Prime ministers PDF IMAGES
32	Article But would he fit into the team? By Crawford H. Greenewalt SEE ALSO: Franklin, Benjamin; Individuality; Psychological tests; Psychology—Humor PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article The California culture By Bruce Bliven SEE ALSO: Automobile ownership; Growth; Migrant agricultural laborers; Migration, Internal; Smog PDF IMAGES
41-46	Article The trouble with engineers By George S. Odiorne SEE ALSO: Engineers; Personnel management; Supply and demand; Vocational guidance PDF IMAGES
46	Poetry Of Mrs. Bird Bishop and the beyond By Fred Lape PDF IMAGES
47-51	Article A slight case of adjustment By Muriel Resnik Jackson SEE ALSO: Education, Preschool; Nursery schools; Parent participation; Parent-teacher relationships PDF IMAGES
52-58	Article The faults of American diplomacy By Harold George, Sir Nicolson SEE ALSO: Diplomacy; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Diplomatic and consular service, French; Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes; League of Nations; Proceedings; United Nations. General Assembly; United Nations. Security Council; Views on diplomacy; Wilson, Woodrow PDF IMAGES
59-65	Article How to take to the tropics: What to expect, and what you won't find, in the hot countries By Oden Meeker SEE ALSO: Climate; Effect of climate on; Europeans; Human beings; Tourist trade; Tropics PDF IMAGES
66-67	Article Tell me, Mr. Attorney . . . By Morris Leopold Ernst SEE ALSO: Attorney and client PDF IMAGES
68-75	Fiction The destructors: A story By Graham Greene PDF IMAGES
75	Poetry Speakable bâcle By Felicia Lamport PDF IMAGES
76-84	Article The jet-propelled couch: Part II By Robert Mitchell Lindner SEE ALSO: Case studies; Fantasy; Psychoanalysis; Psychoses PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
85-87	After hours/Article To the barricades By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in architecture; Conservation and restoration; Grand Central Terminal (New York, New York); Richardson, H.H. (Henry Hobson); Historic buildings; Sullivan, Louis H.; Public architecture PDF IMAGES
87	After hours/Article Opera season, to taste By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Aïda (Motion picture); Carmen (Motion picture); Film and video adaptations; Bizet, Georges; Verdi, Giuseppe; Operas; Hammerstein II, Oscar; Hurok, Sol PDF IMAGES After hours/Article Small jars and bottles By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Family life surveys; Toilet preparations PDF IMAGES
90-98	The new books/Review Particle and pattern By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A dangerous freedom (Book); A program for conservatives (Book); Accent on form (Book); Smith, Bradford; Potter, David Morris; Wright, Frank Lloyd; Whyte, Lancelot Law; People of plenty (Book); Russell Kirk; The natural house (Book) PDF IMAGES
98-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Le May, Alan; An encyclopedia of modern American humor (Book); Marx, Arthur; Cerf, Bennett A.; Hope, Bob; Shipp, Cameron; Frasier, Dudley; From Missouri (Book); Have tux, will travel: Bob Hope's own story (Book); He was not my son (Book); High water (Book); Beecroft, John; King of comedy (Book); Life with Groucho: a son's eye view (Book); Sennett, Mack; Joye, Madeleine; Edes, Mary Elizabeth; Mr. Maugham himself: a collection of writings (Book); Old men forget (Book); Martin, Pete; Bissell, Richard Pike; Snow, Thad; The age of extravagance: an Edwardian reader (Book); The searchers (Book); Cooper, Duff, Viscount Norwich; Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) PDF IMAGES
101	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Among the daughters (Book); Enters, Angna; Conquest by man (Book); Beaty, David; Haycox, Ernest; Wouk, Herman; Marquand, John P. (John Phillips); Marjorie Morningstar (Book); Casteret, Norbert; Hermann, Paul; Wilson, Sandy; Sincerely, Willis Wade (Book); The adventurers (Book); The darkness under the earth (Book); The four winds (Book); This is Sylvia (Book) PDF IMAGES [Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
102-104	The new recordings/Review Sound-spaces: I. The listening window By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Dorati, Antal; Architectural acoustics; Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Concerto for orchestra (Sound recording); Bartók: For children (Sound recording); Bartók: Piano concerto #2; Piano concerto #3 (Sound recording); Bartók: Songs, op. 16; Hungarian folk songs (Sound recording); Bartók: The wooden prince (Sound recording); Cleveland Orchestra; Villa-Lobos, Heitor; Scherchen, Hermann; Hull; Stravinsky, Igor; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Minneapolis Symphony; New Symphony; Page; Stravinsky: Concerto in D for string orchestra. Bach: Brandenburg concerto #3; Suite for strings (arr. Bachrich). Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Danses concertantes; Dumbarton Oaks concerto; Concertino and three pieces for string quartet (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Symphony in C (1940); Cantata (1952) (Sound recording); Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Susskind, Walter PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Show pieces for that Christmas check By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Toscanini, Arturo; Bach: B minor mass (Sound recording); Paumgartner, Bernard; Fricsay, Ferenc; Lehmann, Fritz; Handel, George Frideric; Verdi, Giuseppe; Torelli, Guiseppe; Handel: Messiah (Sound recording); Bach, Johann Sebastian; La Scala Choir and Orchestra; Mozart: Complete piano works (Sound recording); Mozart: Masonic music (Sound recording); Music of the Baroque era for harpsichord and clavichord (Sound recording); NBC Symphony; Pro Musica Symphony; Radio Berlin Symphony; Hayes, Roland; Reinhardt, Rolf; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; St. Hedwig's Choir; The art of Roland Hays (six centuries of song) (Sound recording); Torelli: Twelve violin concerti (Sound recording); Verdi: Requiem (Sound recording); De Sabata, Victor; Vienna Symphony; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES