Harper's Magazine: July 1956

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July 1956

CONTENTS
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	Photography [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Horse racing PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Remembrance in a high valley, from May 1956: Letter By “Name Withheld” PDF IMAGES
10-16	The editor's easy chair/Article Running barefoot through a hayloft full of ten-dollar bills By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Philanthropists PDF IMAGES
20-22	Personal and otherwise/Article What's under the mortar board? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Education, Higher; Junior colleges PDF IMAGES
25-33	Article What's American about America? By John Atlee Kouwenhoven SEE ALSO: American literature; Criticism and interpretation; Jazz; Twain, Mark; Process philosophy; Skyscrapers; Whitman, Walt PDF IMAGES
33	Poetry Twentieth century pastoral: Summer By Fred Lape PDF IMAGES
34-37	Article I'm married to a working mother By David G. Yellin SEE ALSO: Dual-career families; Married women PDF IMAGES
38-42	Article Yankee morals and the $2 bet By John Strohmeyer SEE ALSO: Betting; Horse racing; Journalistic ethics; Patronage, Political; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
43-47	Article Not so rotten in Denmark By Hans Bendix SEE ALSO: Denmark; Monarchy PDF IMAGES
48-54	Article Beaverbrook: Last of the press lords By Woodrow Wyatt SEE ALSO: Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron; Biography; Newspaper publishing; Portraits; Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES
55-62	Fiction King Solomon: A story By Isaac Rosenfeld PDF IMAGES
58	Poetry For the state of Minnesota: During the second summer session at the university By Chadwick Hansen PDF IMAGES
63-68	Article Will the colleges blow their tops? By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Admission; College costs; Federal aid to higher education PDF IMAGES
67	Article Forward, turn forward, O Time in thy flight By Denmark Groover SEE ALSO: Confederate States of America PDF IMAGES
69	Collection Three poems By John, Sir Betjeman PDF IMAGES Poetry The weary journalist By John, Sir Betjeman PDF IMAGES Poetry Seaside golf By John, Sir Betjeman PDF IMAGES Poetry A child ill By John, Sir Betjeman PDF IMAGES
70-77	Fiction A question of principle: A story By Sherry Mangan PDF IMAGES
78-82	Article Twelve myths about airpower: A foot soldier runs a cold eye over some of the more super-heated claims of the air enthusiasts By Anthony L. Wermuth SEE ALSO: Aeronautics, Military; Air pilots, Military; Air power; Bombing, Aerial; Defenses; Operational readiness PDF IMAGES
83-84	After hours/Article Citizen By John Fischer SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Awards; Journalists; Kempton, Murray; New York post (American newspaper); Pulitzer Prizes; Sections, columns, etc. PDF IMAGES
85-86	After hours/Article Big mother is watching you! By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; General Electric; Household appliances PDF IMAGES
86	After hours/Article Everybody's lady fair By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Lerner, Alan Jay; Musicals PDF IMAGES
87-92	The new books/Review The stream and the self By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A dance in the sun (Book); A single pebble (Book); A wreath for Udomo (Book); Amelie in love (Book); Moore, Brian; Moustakas, Clark E.; Jacobson, Dan; Elder, Donald B.; Goodbye to Uncle Tom (Book); Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis); Troyat, Henri; Furnas, J.C. (Joseph Chamberlain); Hersey, John; Duplaix, Lily; Mead, Margaret; Minority report (Book); New lives for old (Book); Abrahams, Peter; Ring Lardner (Book); Jayaswal, Sita Ram; The lonely passion of Judith Hearne (Book); The self: explorations in personal growth (Book) PDF IMAGES
92-94	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Captain's bride, general's lady (Book); Grierson, Edward; Mama I love you (Book); Truman, Margaret; Clark, Maurine; Souvenir: Margaret Truman's own story (Book); The second man (Book); Saroyan, William PDF IMAGES
94	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Blond Venus (Book); Crowther, Bosley; Vanderbilt, Cornelius; Kitt, Eartha; Robinson, Florett; I take great pleasure (Book); Burns, James MacGregor; Hulme, Kathryn; Frewin, Leslie; Anderson, Marian; Sanders, Marion K.; My Lord, what a morning (Book); Mitford, Nancy; Noblesse oblige (Book); Kendall, Paul Murray; Martin, Pete; Queen of the Golden Age; the fabulous story of Grace Wilson Vanderbilt (Book); Richard the Third (Book); Roosevelt: the lion and the fox (Book); Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, Sir; Lancaster, Osbert, Sir; The age of Roosevelt (Book); The lion's share (Book); The nun's story (Book); Thursday's child (Book); Will acting spoil Marilyn Monroe? (Book); Cole, William; Women and children first (Book); Women are wonderful! (Book); Women in politics (Book); Karsh, Yousuf PDF IMAGES
95-96	The new recordings/Review The golden voices of Edison By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Recording and reproducing; Sound PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bach: Fifteen two-part inventions; Concerto in D minor (Sound recording); Bach: The eight little preludes and fugues (Sound recording); Griffes, Charles Tomlinson; Shostakovich, Dmitriæi Dmitrievich; Grieg, Edvard; Grieg: Lyric pieces, books 1 and 2; Lyric pieces, books 3 and 4 (Sound recording); Griffes: Roman sketches, op. 7; Three tone pictures, op. 5; Fantasy pieces, op. 8 (Sound recording); Rameau, Jean Philippe; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Rameau: Complete harpsichord works (Sound recording); Shostakovich: Preludes and fugues for piano, op. 87 (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES