Harper's Magazine: August 1955

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August 1955

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4-8	Letters/Department Letters On For the record, from June 1955: Letter By Morris L. Ernst Letter By Bernard De Voto On Digging the new sound, from June 1955: Letter By Don Kelly Letter By Lowell Richards PDF IMAGES
12-19	The easy chair/Article Spread of an infection By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Governmental investigations; National security; United States. Public Health Services PDF IMAGES
20-24	Personal and otherwise/Article The loving care of determined women, and what it's doing to us . . . By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
24	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
27-33	Article The Salk vaccine: What caused the mess? By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Contamination; Contributions in poliomyelitis vaccine research; Salk, Jonas; Poliomyelitis; United States. Public Health Services; Vaccination PDF IMAGES
34-36	Article The high fidelity wife: Or, a fate worse than deaf By Opal Loomis SEE ALSO: High-fidelity sound systems PDF IMAGES
37-42	Article The great assault on the Arctic: Building the DEW line By Leslie Roberts SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Bush pilots; 1953-1961; Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
42	Poem The middle-aged By Adrienne Cecile Rich PDF IMAGES
43-51	Fiction The kill: A story By Kay Boyle PDF IMAGES
52-55	Article Tight little studio: Home of the good British movies By Kenneth Tynan SEE ALSO: Career in motion picture production; Balcon, Michael; Motion picture industry PDF IMAGES
56-64	Article Women in politics By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: 1953-1961; Politics, Practical; Women in politics PDF IMAGES
65-70	Article Mister Rodriguez of Lisbon By Mary McCarthy SEE ALSO: Dwellings; Housing; Journeys—Portugal; McCarthy, Mary; Poor; Portugal; Professional employees in government; Public housing; Urban renewal PDF IMAGES
71-76	Article When to change jobs—and why By Alan Gregg SEE ALSO: Career changes; Career development PDF IMAGES
77-83	Article Louisville cashes in on culture By William Raymond Manchester SEE ALSO: Career as Louisville (Ky.) mayor; Farnsley, Charles Rowland; Educational television stations; Louisville; Louisville (Ky.); Mayors; Public libraries; Symphony orchestras PDF IMAGES
83	Article How to write a love poem, with corporation help SEE ALSO: Beverages; Competitions PDF IMAGES
84-86	After hours/Article Cherokee strip By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Sawyer, Braxton B.; Career as radio evangelist—Humor; Directories; Oklahoma PDF IMAGES
86-87	After hours/Article The automatic thank you By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Post, Emily; Etiquette PDF IMAGES
88-91	The new books/Review The American continent, and what it did to us . . . the best in recent history and biography By Bruce Catton SEE ALSO: American ways of life (Book); Beyond the hundredth meridian (Book); Johnson, Charles A. (Charles Albert); Dowdey, Clifford; Stewart, George Rippey; Glory, God and gold (Book); Great river (Book); Covarrubias, Miguel; Horgan, Paul; Wellman, Paul Iselin; The eagle, the jaguar and the serpent (Book); The frontier camp meeting (Book); The land they fought for (Book); The men and the mountain (Book); Stegner, Wallace Earle; William Brandon PDF IMAGES
92-93	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Kornitzer, Bela; Churchill, his life in photographs (Book); Dane, Clemence; Lustgarten, Edgar; Schmitt, Gladys; Gernsheim, Helmut; Churchill, Randolph S. (Randolph Spencer); Wilson, Sloan; The flower girls (Book); The great American heritage; the story of the five Eisenhower brothers (Book); The man in the gray flannel suit (Book); The persistent image (Book); The woman in the case (Book) PDF IMAGES
93	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A history of the royal and ancient game of golf (Book); Adventures in paradise (Book); Georges, Alexandre; Around the year with the Trapp family (Book); Thomson, David; Duck decoys and how to rig them (Book); Football scouting (Book); Woodbury, George; Great true adventures (Book); High adventure (Book); Parsons, J.E. (John E.); John Goffe's legacy (Book); Freeman, John Wheelock; Thomas, Lowell; Trapp, Maria Augusta; People of the sea (Book); Coykendall, Ralf W. (Ralf Wales); Browning, Robert; MacKenzie, Robert C. “Sarge”; Hillary, Edmund, Sir; Sports cars (Book); The first Winchester: the story of the 1866 repeating rifle (Book); Price, Willard PDF IMAGES
95-96	The new recordings/Review Many voices By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Deller, Alfred; Schubert, Franz; Purcell, Henry; Jenkins; Brahms, Johannes; Flagstad, Kirsten; Kirsten Flagstad sings Schubert, Brahms, Strauss (Sound recording); Locke, Matthew; Music of Henry Purcell, Jenkins, and Locke (Sound recording); Performances; Strauss, Richard; Hayes, Roland; Roland Hayes sings the life of Christ (Sound recording); Ponselle, Rosa; Vocal music PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bateson; Bruck; Chabrier: Une education manquée (Sound recording); Chabrier, Emmanuel; Zaret, Hy; Singer, Lou; Madrigals of Weelkes and Bateson (Sound recording); Now we know (songs to learn by) (Sound recording); Randolph Singers; Weelkes, Thomas PDF IMAGES