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December 1955

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Paul Arlt SEE ALSO: Magi PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On There is no substitute for a sound classical education, from October 1955: Letter By Marie K. Holecek On Hell's Half Acre, Mass., from September 1955: Letter By William Vogt On Outdoor metropolis, from October 1955: Letter By William Vogt On Running for cover, from October 1955: Letter By Val Peterson Letter By Theodore Babbitt Letter By Eric Larrabee PDF IMAGES
8-16	The easy chair/Article Birth of an art By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Folklore; Influence; Wister, Owen; Technique; The Virginian (Book); West (U.S.) in mass media; Western stories PDF IMAGES
17-20	Advertising Supplement Competition in transportation By Neil J. Curry SEE ALSO: Competition; Railroads and state; Rates; Transportation; Trucking PDF IMAGES
21-24	Personal and otherwise/Article The country slickers take us again By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Agricultural subsidies PDF IMAGES
24-25	Personal and otherwise/Article Gored by his own bull By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
29-33	Article Pay by the year: Can the unions afford it? By Harold J. Ruttenberg SEE ALSO: Collective labor agreements; Hours of labor; Industrial relations; Labor costs; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
34-39	Article Some cultural aspects of serial cartoons: Or, get a load of those funnies By Ignatius G. Mattingly SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Comic books, strips, etc.; Comics; Popular culture; Sections, columns, etc. PDF IMAGES
40-44	Article Ross of Kansas: The man who saved a President By John F. Kennedy SEE ALSO: Johnson, Andrew; Career as U.S. senator; Courage; Ross, Edmund G.(Edmund Gibson); Impeachment; Kansas; 1865-1869; 1865-1950; Political ethics; Trials (Impeachment) PDF IMAGES
45-51	Article Journey with young guitars By Charles Wertenbaker SEE ALSO: Concert tours; Instruction and study PDF IMAGES
52-58	Article Death of a correspondent By John Carlova SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Foreign correspondents; Symonds, Gene; Riots; Singapore PDF IMAGES
57	Poem A novelist By Donald Hall PDF IMAGES
59-64	Article Warren and the new Supreme Court By Irving Dilliard SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. Supreme Court chief justice; Career as U.S. Supreme Court justice; Warren, Earl; Harlan, John M. (John Marshall); 1953-1961; United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
65-68	Fiction A little wine of the country: A story By Priscilla D. Willis PDF IMAGES
69-74	Article What Einstein was up to By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Einstein, Albert; Knowledge—Unified field theories PDF IMAGES
74	Article Man without a future By Frank Harris SEE ALSO: Prime ministers; Psychology; Churchill, Winston, Sir PDF IMAGES
75-81	Fiction Loser takes all (part III) By Graham Greene PDF IMAGES
82-83	After hours/Article Bleached sociability By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Naval ceremonies, honors, and salutes; Portsmouth PDF IMAGES
83-84	After hours/Article El Benefactor wants to see you By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as Dominican Republic president; Dominican Republic; 1930-1961; Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
88-104	The new books/Review Art, taxes, and the myth of the rich By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A charmed life (Book); American painting from the Armory Show to the Depression (Book); Andersonville (Book); Architecture, ambition, and Americans (Book); Hawley, Cameron; Cash McCall (Book); Mount, Charles Merrill; O'Hara, John; John Singer Sargent (Book); Kantor, MacKinlay; McCarthy, Mary; Brown, Milton Wolf; Benchley, Nathaniel; Bowles, Paul; Rich people; Robert Benchley (Book); Ten North Frederick (Book); The spider's house (Book); Andrews, Wayne PDF IMAGES
102	The new books/Notice Book list for children: Match the book to the child By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Children's books; Want lists PDF IMAGES
104-108	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A convention of sparrows (Book); Temko, Allan; Buffalo Bill and the Wild West (Book); Cartoon treasury (Book); Clegg, Charles; Doctor at Dienbienphu (Book); Weeks, Edward; Curro, Evelyn; Foster-Harris; Wykes, Frances Mallory; Sell, Henry Blackman; Lehman, John; Uris, Leon; Beebe, Lucius; Johnson, Lucy Black; Brown, Mark Herbert; Notre Dame of Paris: the biography of a cathedral (Book); Grauwin, Paul; Johnson, Pyke; Godden, Rumer; The American West: the pictorial epic of a continent (Book); The angry hills (Book); The frontier years (Book); The lady and the looking glass (Book); The look of the Old West (Book); The open heart (Book); The whispering gallery (Book); To 1848; Weybright, Victor; Felton, W.R. (William Reid) PDF IMAGES
108	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A secret understanding (Book); Miller, Merle; Taylor Caldwell; Tender victory (Book) PDF IMAGES
109-112	The new recordings/Review Mr. Briggs and the concert hall By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Foldes, Andor; Dorati, Antal; Beethoven: Piano concerto #2; Piano concerto #4 (Sound recording); Britten, Benjamin; Boston Symphony; Britten: Saint Nicholas (cantata), op. 42 (Sound recording); Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op. 31; Folk songs of the British Isles (Sound recording); Britten: Winter words, op. 52; Seven sonnets of Michelangelo, op. 22 (Sound recording); Britten: Young persons' guide to the orchestra. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker suite (Sound recording); Career in sound engineering; Carnegie Hall (New York, New York); Petri, Egon; Egon Petri plays Liszt (Sound recording); Electronic sound control; Ormandy, Eugene; Liszt, Franz; Briggs, G.A. (Gilbert Arthur); Onslow, Georges; Hans Hopf—Wagner (excerpts) (Sound recording); Hindemith: Nobilissima visione. Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn (Sound recording); Brahms, Johannes; Hoffman, Josef; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Minneapolis Symphony; Onslow: Sextet for piano and winds, op. 79; Quintet for winds, op. 81 (Sound recording); Klemperer, Otto; Hindemith, Paul; Performances; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Philharmonia Orchestra of London; Wagner, Richard; Schumann, Robert; Moralt, Rudolf; Serkin, Rudolf; Schumann: Fantasia in C, op. 17. Brahms: Variations on an original theme, op. 21, #1 (Sound recording); Schumann: Violin sonata #1 in A, op. 105. Brahms: Violin sonata #2 in A, op. 100 (“Thun”) (Sound recording); Theaters; Vienna Symphony PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Vivaldi, Antonio; Monteverdi, Claudio; Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Carissimi, Giacomo; Purcell, Henry; Pro Musica Orchestra; Purcell: 15 fantasias for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, viols (Sound recording); Reinhardt, Rolf; The birth of a performance (Sound recording); The Italian seicento: Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna; Sonata sopra “Sancta Maria.” Carissimi: “Jepthe.” (Sound recording); Vivaldi: Il cimento dell' armonia e dell' invenzione, op. 8 (Sound recording); Bruno, Walter; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES