Harper's Magazine: December 1956

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December 1956

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tomi Ungerer SEE ALSO: Angels PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Why is the conservative voice so hoarse?, from March 1956: Letter By Jr. and Wm. F. Buckley On The harm good people do, from October 1956: Letter By Donald J. Thorman Letter By Paul Hyde Bonner Letter By George J. McConchie On All about people, from October 1956: Letter By Benjamin H. Kizer On American in Paris, from October 1956: Letter By Norman P. Gentieu PDF IMAGES
12-18	The editor's easy chair/Article God rest ye merry, gentlemen, ladies, and pests By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cold War; Gifts; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
19-22	Advertising Supplement What's new in aluminum? By Nathanael V. Davis SEE ALSO: Aluminum Company of Canada; Aluminum industry and trade; Aluminum plants; Commerce; Kitimat PDF IMAGES
23-25	Personal and otherwise/Article The philosopher of action By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
25	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
27-31	Article The new super-highways: Blessing or blight? By Robert Moses SEE ALSO: Billboards; Express highways; Federal aid to transportation; Service stations PDF IMAGES
32-34	Article The girl from Sewickley, Pa. By Milton Sanford Mayer SEE ALSO: Europe, Western; First loves PDF IMAGES
34	Poem A wooden darning egg By John Updike PDF IMAGES
35-40	Article Who really runs the Senate? [(part I)] By William Smith White SEE ALSO: 1953-1961; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
41-44	Article A lesson in discipline By Teresa Foley SEE ALSO: Classroom management; School discipline; Teacher-student relationships PDF IMAGES
45-52	Article Television's lords of creation: Part II By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Air power (Television program); Documentary television programs; Dello Joio, Norman; Wolff, Perry; Production and direction; Television; Television producers and directors; Television programs, Public service PDF IMAGES
53-56	Article France's first discount house By E. Ernest Goldstein SEE ALSO: Career in discount marketing; Consumer behavior; Discount houses (Retail trade); Gattegno, Maurice PDF IMAGES
57-63	Article Woodrow Wilson among his friends By Raymond Blaine Fosdick SEE ALSO: Friends and associates; League of Nations; 1913-1921; Officials and employees; Wilson, Woodrow PDF IMAGES
62	Poem Scrolls By Anne Goodwin Winslow PDF IMAGES
64-66	Article Two graves in Oklahoma By Angie Debo SEE ALSO: Captivity, 1836-1860; Cemeteries; Cheyenne Indians; Parker, Cynthia Ann; Death and burial; Government relations; Indian captivities; Oklahoma; Parker, Quanah PDF IMAGES
66	Poem White sowing By Frances Frost PDF IMAGES
67-72	Article Trujillo: Little Caesar on our own front porch By John McCarten and Germán E. Ornes SEE ALSO: Assaults against; Career as Dominican Republic president; Dominican Republic; Journalists; 1930-1961; Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas PDF IMAGES
73-75	Article An experiment in reading By Gilbert W. Chapman SEE ALSO: Industrial relations; Working class families PDF IMAGES
75	Article Causes beyond our control PDF IMAGES
78-80	After hours/Article Toys for tots, for a change By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in educational toy industry; Caplan, Frank PDF IMAGES
80-83	After hours/Article Art on paper By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Artists' illustrated books PDF IMAGES
84-102	The new books/Review The ambiguities of success By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Valentine, Alan Chester; Mason, Alpheus T.; Sorensen, Charles E.; Randall, Clarence B. (Clarence Belden); Bell, Daniel; Allen, Fred; Harlan Fiske Stone (Book); Much ado about me (Book); My forty years with Ford (Book); Over my shoulder (Book); Lee, Roger L. (Roger Lewis); Bellow, Saul; Seize the day (Book); Churchill, Winston, Sir; The happy life of a doctor (Book); Trial balance: the education of an American (Book); Work and its discontents (Book) PDF IMAGES
102-107	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Guthrie, A.B. (Alfred Bertram); A treasury of Vermont life (Book); Peach, Arthur Wallace; Autumn across America (Book); Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron; Before barbed wire (Book); De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Dennis the menace vs. everybody (Book); Condon, Eddie; Eddie Condon's treasury of jazz (Book); Teale, Edwin Way; Smith, Elinor Goulding; Nowell, Elizabeth; Europa minor, journeys in coastal Turkey (Book); Robinson, Florett; Ketcham, Hank; Farrell, Jack W.; Stuart, Jesse; Brown, Mark Herbert; Stearns, Marshall Winslow; Boulle, Pierre; Hill, Ralph Nading; Gehman, Richard; Greene, Stephen; Longstreet, Stephen; The face of a hero (Book); The heart of jazz (Book); The letters of Thomas Wolfe (Book); The real jazz, old and new (Book); The story of jazz (Book); The thousand hills (Book); The year of my rebirth (Book); Wolfe, Thomas; Felton, W.R. (William Reid); Hard, Walter R.; Cole, William; Grossman, William L.; Women and children first (Book); Women are wonderful! (Book) PDF IMAGES
107	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples); West, Rebecca, Dame; Death of a man (Book); Gann, Ernest K.; Green, Gerald; Wertenbaker, Lael Tucker; Marry one another (Book); Russ, Martin; McCarthy, Mary; Memories of a Catholic childhood (Book); The fountain overflows (Book); The last angry man (Book); The last parallel: a marine's war journal (Book); Till we have faces (Book); Twilight of the gods (Book) PDF IMAGES
108-112	The new recordings/Review For the holidays and after By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Schiøtz, Aksel; Michaelis, Arnold; Boston Symphony; Walter, Bruno; Franck, César; Saint-Saëns, Camille; Munch, Charles; Debussy, Claude; Debussy: Iberia; Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; La Mer (Sound recording); Debussy: The martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (Sound recording); Detroit Symphony; Tango, Egisto; André, Franz; Wöldike, Mogens; Mozart: Requiem mass in D minor, K. 626 (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Paray, Paul; Performances; Draper, Ruth; Saint-Saens: Carnival of the animals. Franck: Psyché (symphonic poem) (Sound recording); The art of Aksel Schiotz (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Fiedler, Arthur; Toscanini, Arturo; Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Sound recording); Boston Pops Orchestra; Walter, Bruno; Debussy, Claude; Inghelbrecht, D.E. (Désiré Emile); Gershwin, George; Gershwin: Rhapsody in blue (Sound recording); Haydn: Symphony #102; Symphony #96 (“Miracle”) (Sound recording); Berlioz, Hector; Haydn, Joseph; Music of Claude Debussy: L'enfant prodigue; La demoiselle élue; Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons (Sound recording); NBC Symphony; New York Philharmonic; Strauss, Richard; Strauss: Don Quixote (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES