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September 1955

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Robert Chesley Osborn SEE ALSO: Portraits; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Peter and Wendy in the revolution, from July 1955: Letter By Gertrude S. Carraway Letter By Bernard De Voto On The embarrassing truth about Davy Crockett, the Alamo, Yoknapatawpha County, and other dear myths, from July 1955: Letter By Frankie Lane Letter By John P. Wright Letter By Jr. and Maury Maverick Letter By Betsy H. Howard Letter By Jamie Macdonald Letter By Jacqueline P. James PDF IMAGES
10-19	The easy chair/Article Hell's Half Acre, Mass. By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Cambridge; Nature conservation; Nature study; Open spaces; Waste disposal sites PDF IMAGES
20-25	Personal and otherwise/Article The Nixon issue By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
29-33	Article Public schools are better than you think By Sloan Wilson SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Educational change; Public schools PDF IMAGES
33	Poem Orbit By Felicia Lamport PDF IMAGES
34-39	Article Decorating the home: A special neurosis in women By Milton R. Sapirstein and Alis De Sola SEE ALSO: Interior decoration; Married women; Neuroses; Women and psychoanalysis PDF IMAGES
40-46	Article The shift to the initiative By Joseph H. Spigelman SEE ALSO: Anti-imperialist movements; Cold War; Communism and international relations; Communist strategy; Developing countries; 1953-1961; 1953-1975 PDF IMAGES
46	Article Love letter from Spain SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, Spanish PDF IMAGES
47-56	Article The grocer and the chief By Daniel Lerner SEE ALSO: Economic development; 1918-1960; Sociological aspects; Turkey; Turks PDF IMAGES
57-63	Article Nixon: Most likely to succeed By Richard Halworth Rovere SEE ALSO: Career in politics; 1953-1961; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Vice-Presidents PDF IMAGES
64-72	Article Our bridge from the sun: New discoveries about photosynthesis, which turns light into the fuel of life By George W. (George William) Gray SEE ALSO: Bioenergetics; Photosynthesis; Plants PDF IMAGES
71	Article The creative instinct By Ernest Dichter SEE ALSO: Creative ability; Housewives PDF IMAGES
73-78	Fiction The old wives' tale: A story By Mary Lee Settle PDF IMAGES
79-80	Article Personal experiment in international friendship By Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune SEE ALSO: American books abroad; Cold War; Intellectual cooperation; Japanese; Relations PDF IMAGES
80	Poem Emerson By Ernest Kroll PDF IMAGES
81-85	Article Advice to a girl about to marry a writer By Benedict Thielen SEE ALSO: Authors; Authors' spouses; Flaubert, Gustave; Psychology; Woolf, Virginia PDF IMAGES
85	Poem Saint Sebastian By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
86-87	After hours/Article Champion City By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Awards; Cities and towns; Misconduct in office; Municipal officials and employees PDF IMAGES
87-88	After hours/Article Big splash By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Motion picture industry PDF IMAGES
88-89	After hours/Article International juke box By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Ethnomusicology; Jazz audiences PDF IMAGES
90-97	The new books/Review Sanity and society . . . novelists on the nature of man . . . the Supreme Court . . . war stories By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Harrington, Alan; Band of angels (Book); Bell's Landing (Book); Culture and mental disorders (Book); Fromm, Erich; Waugh, Evelyn; Rodell, Fred; Brace, Gerald Warner; Eaton, Joseph W.; Roy, Jules; Shapiro, L.S.B.(Lionel S.B.); Literature and the war; Nine men (Book); Officers and gentlemen (Book); White, Patrick; Jackson, Robert H.; Weil, Robert J.; Warren, Robert Penn; Social psychology; The navigator (Book); The revelations of Dr. Modesto (Book); The sane society (Book); The sixth of June (Book); The Supreme Court in the American system of government (Book); The tree of man (Book) PDF IMAGES
97-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Campbell-Johnson, Alan; Moorehead, Alan; Plagemann, Bentz; Eden: the making of a statesman (Book); Steichen, Edward; Elinor Glyn (Book); Grandfather stories (Book); McNulty, John; My son Johnny (Book); Newby, P.H. (Percy Howard); Adams, Samuel Hopkins; The family of man (Book); The picnic at Sakkara (Book); This is Google, or the education of a father (Book); Winston Churchill (Book); Glyn, Anthony, Sir, bart. PDF IMAGES
101	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Moats, Alice-Leone; Andersonville (Book); Schulberg, Budd; Confessions of Felix Krull, confidence man (Book); Lindsay, Cynthia; Hunter, Evan; Burns, George; McClintic, Guthrie; Coon, Horace; I love her, that's why (Book); Horan, James David; Uris, Leon; Lupescu (Book); Kantor, MacKinlay; Mathew Brady: historian with a camera (Book); Me and Kit (Book); Bowles, Paul; Second ending (Book); The angry hills (Book); The spider's house (Book); Costain, Thomas Bertram; Mann, Thomas; Tontine (Book); Triumph of the eggheads (Book); Waterfront (Book) PDF IMAGES
102-103	The new recordings/Review Synthesized music By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Scarlatti, Alessandro; Brahms: String quartet in A, op. 51; String quartet #2, B flat, op. 67 (Sound recording); Goltz, Christel; Brahms, Johannes; Preston, John; Leuning, Otto; Performances; Kirkpatrick, Ralph; Scarlatti: Sixty sonatas (Sound recording); Tape recorder music: Sonic contours; Fantasy in space; Incantation; Invention: Low speed (Sound recording); Ussachevsky, Vladimir PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Hovhaness, Alan; Goehr, Alexander; Brahms: New love-song waltzes, op. 65; Six vocal quartets (op. 64, 92, 112) (Sound recording); Handel, George Frideric; Handel: The Messiah (concert version) (Sound recording); Haydn: Symphony #94 (“Surprise”); Symphony #100 (“Military”) (Sound recording); Hindemith: Educational music for instrumental ensembles (strings) (Sound recording); Hovhannes: Khaldis (piano, four trumpets, percussion); other works (Sound recording); Hovhannes: Suite from “The Flowering Peach”; Orbit no. 1; Suite from “Is There Survival?” (Sound recording); Solomon, Izler; Swoboda, Jerzy; Brahms, Johannes; Haydn, Joseph; Levine, Maurice; Netherlands Philharmonic; Hindemith, Paul PDF IMAGES