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April 1956

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Artur Marokvia SEE ALSO: Actors PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Teachers, parents, and money, from February 1956: Letter By Ernest W. Mandeville Letter By Ellen L. Evans On Intellectual with a gun, from February 1956: Letter By R.-L. (Raymond-Léopold) Bruckberger Letter By Judith E. Aronson Letter By James Cockcroft Letter By Raymond Jeanclos Letter By Kate Born PDF IMAGES
8-12	The editor's easy chair/Article House party for eleven doctors By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Employee selection; Employment interviewing; Medical research personnel PDF IMAGES
12-16	The editor's easy chair/Article Greetings, girls By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Service, Compulsory non-military; Supply and demand; Teachers PDF IMAGES
16	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
20-24	Personal and otherwise/Article The plain man as inventor By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Inventors PDF IMAGES
29-35	Article The politics of revenge By Samuel Lubell SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Ethnic relations; 1952-; 1953-1961; The Republican Party; Voting research PDF IMAGES
36-37	Article Out where the tall antennas grow By William Knowlton Zinsser SEE ALSO: Iowa; New Yorkers; Popular culture; Television viewers PDF IMAGES
38-43	Article America becomes a “have-not” nation By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Foreign economic relations; International trade; 1945-1960 PDF IMAGES
44-48	Article The best theater season in years By Walter Kerr SEE ALSO: Theater and society; Theater and state PDF IMAGES
48	Poem Horace to Tibullus By Gilbert Highet PDF IMAGES
49-53	Article Eden in trouble: Why the Tories are slipping and how they may climb back By F. George Steiner SEE ALSO: Career as British prime minister; Conservative Party (Great Britain); Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon; 1945-1964; Prime ministers PDF IMAGES
52	Article Ambassador extraordinary and cheap, too SEE ALSO: Collectibles; Crockett, Davy; Exports; Humor PDF IMAGES
54-57	Fiction Man's courage By Wyatt Blassingame PDF IMAGES
58-66	Article E.H. Armstrong: The hero as inventor By Carl Dreher SEE ALSO: Career in radio; Contributions in radio; Sarnoff, David; Armstrong, Edwin H. (Edwin Howard); Inventors; Patent suits; Patents; Radio; Suicide victims PDF IMAGES
67-72	Article The Dutch hustle By Wolfgang Langewiesche SEE ALSO: Dikes (Engineering); Floods; National characteristics, Dutch; Netherlands; Reclamation of land PDF IMAGES
73-77	Article Buying on time: Where do you stop? By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Consumer credit; Finance, Personal; Installment plan PDF IMAGES
77	Poem If you have an appointment for April break it By Jean Pedrick PDF IMAGES
78-79	After hours/Article Cutaway (goo-goo on disc) By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in radio broadcasting; Gallop, Frank; Production and direction; Radio; Radio broadcasters PDF IMAGES
79-80	After hours/Article Treasure trove By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Art collections; Art patrons; Exhibitions; Kress, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) PDF IMAGES
80-81	After hours/Article Hot lunch By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Collectors and collecting; Food service; Hotels; Menus; Vending machines PDF IMAGES
82-96	The new books/Review Political rhetoric, the decision-makers, and some innocents abroad By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A perfect woman (Book); Affairs of state: the Eisenhower years (Book); Kilbracken, John Raymond Godley, Baron; Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright); Daiches, David; Greene, Graham; Helen Keller: sketch for a portrait (Book); Shaw, Irwin; Markandaya, Kamala; Hartley, L.P. (Leslie Poles); Living like a lord (Book); Lucy Crown (Book); Revolt of the moderates (Book); Rovere, Richard Halworth; Chotzinoff, Samuel; Lubell, Samuel; Some inner fury (Book); The power elite (Book); The quiet American (Book); Toscanini: an intimate portrait (Book); Two worlds: an Edinburgh Jewish childhood (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck PDF IMAGES
97-99	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A bar of shadow (Book); A journey to greatness: the life and music of George Gershwin (Book); A sailor's life (Book); Ewen, David; Powers, J.F. (James Farl); Scott, J.M.; De Hartog, Jan; Van der Post, Laurens; Nila, her story (Book); Shaplen, Robert; Sea-wyf (Book); The forest of tigers (Book); The presence of grace (Book); Ethridge, Willie Snow PDF IMAGES
99-100	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A history of the English-speaking peoples: the birth of Britain (Book); Cronin, A.J. (Archibald Joseph); A thing of beauty (Book); At home in India (Book); Browne, Belmore; Birthplace of the winds (Book); Captain's bride, general's lady (Book); Cologne and Bonn (Book); Bowles, Cynthia; Ogrizek, Doré; Sekler, Eduard F.(Eduard Franz); Merfield, Fred G.; Brodie, George; Bissonnette, Georges; German cathedrals (Book); Germany (Book); Gorilla hunter: the African adventures of a hunter extraordinary (Book); Miller, Harry; Quarry, John; Baum, Julius; Baedeker, Karl; Rich, Louise Dickinson; Cousins, Margaret; Truman, Margaret; Clark, Maurine; Moscow was my parish (Book); Scotland (Book); Churchill, Winston, Sir; Souvenir: Margaret Truman's own story (Book); Sweden: the welfare state (Book); Bank, Ted; The coast of Maine (Book); The conquest of Mt. McKinley (Book); The West Indies (Book); Travel writing; Fleisher, Wilfrid; Wren and his place in European architecture (Book) PDF IMAGES
101-104	The new recordings/Review Briefs on the spoken word By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Wheatley, Alan; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron; Karloff, Boris; Byron: Don Juan (canto I); She walks in beauty; On this day; Childe Harold's pilgrimage (excerpts) (Sound recording); Evans, Edith, Dame; Thomas, Dylan; García Lorca, Federico; Derwood, Gene; Gene Derwood reading her own poems (Sound recording); Brooks, Geraldine; Homage to Dylan Thomas (Sound recording); Collier, John; John Collier: Mary; De mortuis; Back for Christmas (Sound recording); Kipling: Just so stories and other tales (Sound recording); Lorca: Lament on the death of a bullfighter, and other poems (Sound recording); Rose, Norman; Performances; Richard III (The Laurence Olivier film) (Sound recording); Kipling, Rudyard; Shakespeare: Scenes from “As You Like It”; Twenty sonnets (Sound recording); Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns); T.S. Eliot reading poems and choruses (Sound recording); Power, Tyrone; Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh); Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bach: Toccata and fugue in D minor; Toccata and fugue in F major; Fughetta and choral preludes; “Dies sind die heil'gen Zehn gebot” (Sound recording); Beehoven: Symphony #4; “Ah, Perfido!” (Sound recording); Beethoven: Symphony #2; Coriolan overture (Sound recording); Weinrich, Carl; Karajan, Herbert von; J.S. Bach: Works for the lute (Book); Bach, Johann Sebastian; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra PDF IMAGES