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October 1955

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Leo Manso SEE ALSO: Gambling; Monaco; Monte Carlo PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from July 1955: Letter By David C. Mearns On Spread of an infection, from August 1955: Letter By Herbert B. Lutz On The loving care of determined women, and what it's doing to us . . ., from August 1955: Letter By Jr. and Max Factor Letter By Claire E. Fox Letter By Channing Cope Letter By Barbara Bortin Letter By Elliott J. Echelman On Cherokee strip, from August 1955: Letter By Chan Gurney PDF IMAGES
12-21	The easy chair/Article Outdoor metropolis By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Cape Cod; Cape Cod (Mass.); Management; National parks and reserves; Open spaces; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
24-26	Personal and otherwise/Article Running for cover By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Civil defense PDF IMAGES
26-29	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
29	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
33-37	Article Strategy hits a dead end By Bernard Brodie SEE ALSO: Deterrence (Strategy); Nuclear warfare; Preemptive attack (Military science) PDF IMAGES Collection How war became absurd PDF IMAGES
37-44	Article The guardians By Richard S., Jr. Meryman SEE ALSO: Bomber pilots; United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command PDF IMAGES
44-46	Article The noiseless weapon By Hans Thirring SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Nuclear warfare; Radioactive fallout PDF IMAGES
47-52	Article The safari industry By Oden Meeker SEE ALSO: Big game hunting; Gorilla; Kenya; Safaris; Tourist trade; Wild animal collecting PDF IMAGES
52	Article The great attack on the foundations SEE ALSO: Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations PDF IMAGES
53-57	Article The churches repent By Louis Cassels and Lee Nichols SEE ALSO: Christianity; Segregation PDF IMAGES
58-60	Article Button, button: Or, how we elected Eisenhower By Arthur Hudson Parsons SEE ALSO: Campaign insignia; Campaign literature; Campaign management; Career in politics; Children and politics; Collectors and collecting; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); 1952-; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
61-68	Fiction Loser takes all (part I) By Graham Greene PDF IMAGES
66	Poem It's your ego but it's my id By Jean Pedrick PDF IMAGES
69-72	Article Dear Louisa By Eleanor Spencer Stone Perényi SEE ALSO: American literature; Criticism and interpretation; Alcott, Louisa May; Women authors; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
71	Poem Burning the cat By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
73-77	Article Alvarez: Everybody's family doctor By Greer Williams SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Career in medicine; Medicine; Physicians as authors; Sections, columns, etc.; Alvarez, Walter C. (Walter Clement) PDF IMAGES
77	Poem Conversational English By T.S. (Thomas Stanley) Matthews PDF IMAGES
79-81	Fiction Jonah By Irene Orgel PDF IMAGES
81	Article There is no substitute for a sound classical education SEE ALSO: Classical education; Errors and blunders, Literary PDF IMAGES
82-84	After hours/Article Concours d'elegance By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Marketing PDF IMAGES
84-85	After hours/Article Revival By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; Painting, American; Revival movements (Art) PDF IMAGES
86-96	The new books/Review The 'thirties and the 'fifties: The day's work By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Pippett, Aileen; West, Anthony; Autobiography (Book); Schulberg, Budd; Wakeman, Frederic; Soule, George Henry; Woodbury, George; Heritage (Book); Wouk, Herman; Hogarth's progress (Book); John Goffe's legacy (Book); Asquith, Cynthia, Lady; Marjorie Morningstar (Book); Quennell, Peter; Greenacre, Phyllis; Portrait of Barrie (Book); Epstein, Jacob, Sir; Swift and Carroll: a psychoanalytic study of two lives (Book); The fabulous train (Book); The moth and the star (Book); Time for living (Book); Waterfront (Book) PDF IMAGES
96-101	Review The year in poetry By Randall Jarrell SEE ALSO: Belitt, Ben; Birthdays from the ocean (Book); Collected poems (Book); Carrier, Constance; Ignatow, David; Thomas, Dylan; Bishop, Elizabeth; Dickinson, Emily; Nemerov, Howard; Gardner, Isabella; Fitzell, Lincoln; Poems (Book); Graves, Robert; Campbell, Roy; Selected poems (Book); Spender, Stephen; The gentle weightlifter (Book); The middle voice (Book); The poems of Emily Dickinson (Book); The salt garden (Book); The shield of Achilles (Book); Johnson, Thomas Herbert; Under milk wood (Book); Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh); Stevens, Wallace; Wilderness stair (Book) PDF IMAGES
102-103	The new recordings/Review The Stein and the Steinway By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Vivaldi, Antonio; Bach: Toccata in D minor (Sound recording); Paumgartner, Bernard; Cantelli, Guido; Quantz, Johann Joachim; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Mozart: Violin sonata in D, K. 306; Variations on “Hélas, J'ai perdu mon amant,” K. 360; Sonata in E-flat, K. 481; Sonatina in G, K. 11 (Sound recording); Mozart: Violin sonata in G, K. 301; Violin sonata in E-minor, K. 304; Violin sonata in B-flat, K. 378; Violin sonata in G, K. 379 (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Piano; Quantz: Flute concerto in G. Gluck: Flute concerto in G: Dance of the spirits. Mozart: Andante in G for flute and orchestra, K. 315 (Sound recording); Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von; Vienna Symphony; Vivaldi: The seasons (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: A Bach recital (Sound recording); Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Brahms: Cello sonata #1; Cello sonata #2 (Sound recording); Brahms: Serenade #2, opus 16 (Sound recording); Brahms: Symphony #2 (Sound recording); Zecchi, Carlo; Beinum, Eduard van; English Baroque Orchestra; Ormandy, Eugene; Adler, F. Charles (Frederick Charles); Handel, George Frideric; Handel: Twelve concerti grossi, op. 6 (Sound recording); Scherchen, Hermann; Stravinsky, Igor; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Brahms, Johannes; Philadelphia Orchestra; Prokofieff: Piano sonata #9, op. 103; Ten pieces from Cinderella, op. 97 (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Stravinsky: Le Sacre de printemps; Petrouchka (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Symphony #1, op. 1 (Sound recording); Vienna Orchestra Society PDF IMAGES