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February 1957

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Robert Chesley Osborn SEE ALSO: Safety measures PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On The toy commandments, from August 1900: Letter By Mrs. Eleanor A. Coburn PDF IMAGES
12-20	The editor's easy chair/Article Forecast for 1957 By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Eisenhower doctrine; Foreign economic relations; 1953-1961; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; World politics PDF IMAGES
20	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
22-25	Personal and otherwise/Article The well of English somewhat defiled By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Americanisms; Usage PDF IMAGES
27-34	Article Unnoticed changes in America By D.W. (Denis William) Brogan SEE ALSO: 1953-1961; Veterans PDF IMAGES
35-37	Article The gourmets get out of hand By Marilyn Mercer SEE ALSO: Cookery, American; Gourmets; Kitchen utensils PDF IMAGES
38-43	Article How safe are the new cars? By Paul W. (Paul William) Kearney SEE ALSO: Ford automobile; Safety appliances; Safety measures PDF IMAGES
43	Article Successor to the Model T By Charles E. Sorensen SEE ALSO: Automobiles, Foreign; Compact cars PDF IMAGES
44-48	Article South Carolina's incurable aristocrats By William Francis Guess SEE ALSO: Aristocracy (Political science); Migration, Internal; Poverty; South Carolina PDF IMAGES
49-56	Article Philadelphia does it: The battle for Penn Center By James Reichley SEE ALSO: Career as Philadelphia mayor; Career in architecture; Bacon, Edmund N.; Clark, Joseph S.; Kahn, Louis I.; Public architecture; Urban renewal PDF IMAGES
57-65	Fiction Traveling man By Peter Matthiessen PDF IMAGES
66-71	Article Inside Russia's treasure house By Sterling A. Callisen SEE ALSO: Art exhibition audiences; Exhibitions PDF IMAGES
72-80	Article Foreign aid: Is it still necessary? By Dan Mabry Lacy SEE ALSO: Cold War; Developing countries; Economic assistance; Economic assistance, American; International trade; Investments, American; United Nations PDF IMAGES
80	Poem Sea wife By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
82-84	After hours/Article Large as life By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; Lighting; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York); Reproduction; Special effects PDF IMAGES
84-85	After hours/Article Sounds of the times By John Fischer SEE ALSO: American Federation of Musicians; Career as president of American Federation of Musicians; Petrillo, James C. (James Caesar); Membership; Musicians; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
86-95	The new books/Review Experience and control By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Gill, Brendan; Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples); Darwin, Charles; Gauss, Christian Frederick; Norris, Frank; Give us this day (Book); Haydn, Hiram; Stewart, J.I.M.(John Innes Mackintosh); Krutch, Joseph Wood; Jackson, Katherine Gauss; Bates, Marston; Russ, Martin; Humphrey, Philip Strong; Coates, Robert M. (Robert Myron); Stewart, Sidney; The Darwin reader (Book); The day the money stopped (Book); The great chain of being (Book); The guardians (Book); The hour after westerly and other stories (Book); The last parallel (Book); The papers of Christian Gauss (Book); Till we have faces (Book); Tower in the West (Book) PDF IMAGES
95-99	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A light for fools (Book); A pictorial history of burlesque (Book); Fremantle, Anne Jackson; Sobel, Bernard; De Santillana, Giorgio; Davis, H.L. (Harold Lenoir); Aiken, Henry David; Farnsworth, Marjorie; White, Morton Gabriel; Ginzburg, Natalia; Philosophy; Powell, Richard; Berlin, Isaiah, Sir; Hampshire, Stuart; The Age of Adventure: the Renaissance philosophers (Book); The Age of Analysis: 20th century philosophers (Book); The Age of Belief: the medieval philosophers (Book); The Age of Enlightenment: the 18th century philosophers (Book); The Age of Ideology: the 19th century philosophers (Book); The Age of Reason: the 17th century philosophers (Book); The distant music (Book); The muses are heard (Book); The Philadelphian (Book); The Ziegfeld Follies, a history in text and pictures (Book); Capote, Truman PDF IMAGES
99	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Barrymore, Diana; Don't stop the music (Book); Cantor, Eddie; Frank, Gerold; Gypsy: a memoir (Book); Lee, Gypsy Rose; Mayer, Hazel; Simon, Henry W.(Henry William); Shapiro, Nat; Newell, Patricia; Take my life (Book); The festival of opera (Book); The liveliest art (Book); Too much, too soon (Book) PDF IMAGES
100-103	The new recordings/Review Bernstein By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Copland, Aaron; Bernstein: Fancy free (1944). Copland: El Salón México (1936). Milhaud: La Création du monde (1923) (Sound recording); Bernstein on Beethoven: Symphony #5, the complete symphony (Sound recording); Bernstein: Serenade for violin solo, strings and percussion (1954) (Sound recording); Walter, Bruno; Career in music; Chicago Symphony; Columbia Symphony; Milhaud, Darius; Stern, Isaac; Bernstein, Leonard; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Mozart: Piano concerto #15 in B flat, K. 450; Piano concerto #17 in G, K. 453 (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Performances; Symphony of the Air; What is jazz? (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Wenzinger, August; Bloch: Quartet #1 in B minor (Sound recording); Monteverdi, Claudio; Bloch, Ernest; Mortimer, Harry; Massenet, Jules; Massenet: Manon, complete (Sound recording); Men of brass (Book); Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (complete) (Sound recording); Mozart: Fantasia in C minor (K. 475); Sonata #10 in C major (K. 330); Sonata #14 in C minor (K. 457); Rondo in A minor (K. 511) (Sound recording); Monteux, Pierre; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES