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June 1958

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Robert Chesley Osborn SEE ALSO: Comedians; Marx, Groucho; Portraits PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On A combat veteran sounds off, from April 1958: Letter By James M. (James Maurice) Gavin Letter By Joe Rychetnik Letter By M.A. Niland Letter By James P. Smith Letter By “The Editors” Letter By Fred G. Huntington PDF IMAGES
8	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
10-19	The easy chair/Article The untold story behind Little Rock By Harry S. Ashmore SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Career as Arkansas governor; Career as U.S. president; Civil Rights; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Government and the press; Little Rock; Little Rock (Ark.); Objectivity; Faubus, Orval Eugene; Race discrimination; School integration PDF IMAGES
20-21	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Lifeline By John Fischer SEE ALSO: New Haven; Nutrition PDF IMAGES
21	Personal and otherwise/Article The best By John Fischer SEE ALSO: American periodicals; Awards; Rutstein, David D.; Foley, Martha; Engle, Paul; Matthiessen, Peter; Prize stories 1958: the O. Henry awards (Book); Bradbury, Ray; White, Robin; The best American short stories 1958 (Book) PDF IMAGES
23-30	Article Notes on political leadership By Joseph S. Clark SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Clark, Joseph S.; Mayors; Philadelphia (Pa.); Political ethics; Political leadership; Portraits PDF IMAGES
26	Article Chin up, boys! SEE ALSO: Executives; Recessions PDF IMAGES
30	Poem Of cats By Ted Hughes PDF IMAGES
31-35	Article The lunar world of Groucho Marx By Leo Calvin Rosten SEE ALSO: Biography; Comedians; Marx, Groucho; Portraits PDF IMAGES
32	Article Films like “I Was a Teen-age Werewolf,” for example? By Oscar Godbout SEE ALSO: Hope, Bob; Journeys—Soviet Union; Motion pictures, American PDF IMAGES
35	Poem Augeias and I By Robert Graves PDF IMAGES
36-43	Article The gang that went good By Dan Wakefield SEE ALSO: Harlem (New York, New York); Social work with youth; Street youth; Youth workers PDF IMAGES
44-49	Fiction A friendly talk: A story By Storm Jameson PDF IMAGES
50-56	Article The new jet air liners By Wolfgang Langewiesche SEE ALSO: Aeronautics; Airlines; Cost of operation; Jet transports; Safety measures PDF IMAGES
52	Poem Fable for blackboard By George Starbuck PDF IMAGES
54	Fiction The child-centered home By Leo, graf Tolstoy PDF IMAGES
57-61	Article Fashions in food: Random notes by an historian of the fickle palate By William H. Adolph SEE ALSO: Food preferences; Nutrition PDF IMAGES
61	Article The man in the gray flannel kimono SEE ALSO: Food; Oysters; Packing-house workers PDF IMAGES
62-68	Article Australia: The innocent continent By D.W. (Denis William) Brogan SEE ALSO: American influences; Australia; Class consciousness PDF IMAGES
69-76	Article Reforming Chicago: Slow but not hopeless By John Kay Adams SEE ALSO: Chicago (Ill.); Corrupt practices; Election law; Elections PDF IMAGES
78-80	After hours/Article The harpsichord with the forward look By Bernard Asbell SEE ALSO: Career in harpsichord construction; Construction; Detroit; Harpsichord; Challis, John PDF IMAGES
80	After hours/Article Signs of the times By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cleveland; Porters; Questions and answers; Taxicab drivers PDF IMAGES After hours/Article Young old trouper By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in television; Moore, Garry; Live television programs; Television personalities PDF IMAGES
82-90	The new books/Review Rich man, poor man . . . By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A New England girlhood (Book); Moravia, Alberto; Chiara (Book); Moll, Elick; D'Olive, Gene; Elliott, George P.; Galbraith, John Kenneth; Journey to Java (Book); Hale, Nancy; Parktilden Village (Book); Seidman and Son (Book); Beauvoir, Simone de; Nicolson, Harold George, Sir; The affluent society (Book); The long march (Book); The mountain road (Book); White, Theodore Harold; Two women (Book) PDF IMAGES
90-92	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A place without twilight (Book); A summer place (Book); Laurents, Arthur; Kytle, Elizabeth; Wister, Fanny Kemble; Ross, James Davidson; Pinckney, Josephine; Margaret (Book); Willson, Meredith; Wister, Owen; Owen Wister out West: his journals and letters (Book); Feibleman, Peter S.; Wilson, Sloan; Splendid in ashes (Book); The music man (Book); West Side story (Book); Willie Mae (Book) PDF IMAGES
92-93	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A moment in history: the Montgomery story (Book); Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (Book); Aku-Aku (Book); Kazin, Alfred; Bridge, Ann; Frank, Anne; Anne Frank: a portrait in courage (Book); Broad, C. Lewis (Charlie Lewis); Forester, C.S.; Rand, Christopher; Howarth, David Armine; Dawn of D-day (Book); Nel, Elizabeth Layton; Erika and the king (Book); Leuchtag, Erika; Schnabel, Ernst; Suyin, Han; Salisbury, Harrison Evans; I was Churchill's secretary (Book); Weidman, Jerome; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Renault, Mary; Montgomery, Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st viscount; Barker, Shirley; Swear by Apollo (Book); The enemy camp (Book); The king must die (Book); The mountain is young (Book); The Portuguese escape (Book); The Puerto Ricans (Book); The shook-up generation (Book); The sparks fly upward (Book); The works of Anne Frank (Book); Heyerdahl, Thor; Winston Churchill, a biography (Book) PDF IMAGES
94-96	The new recordings/Review From “Eroica” to the “Moonlight” By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: A Beethoven recital (Sound recording); Foldes, Andor; Janigro, Antonio; Grumiaux, Arthur; Balsam, Artur; Beethoven: Diabelli variations, op. 120 (Sound recording); Beethoven: Piano concerto #1; Piano concerto #2 (Sound recording); Beethoven: Symphony #3 (“Eroica”); Coriolanus overture (Sound recording); Beethoven: Symphony #6 (“Pastoral”); Fidelio overture (Sound recording); Beethoven: The cello sonatas (Sound recording); Beethoven: The late quartets (Sound recording); Beethoven: Violin sonatas (Sound recording); Zecchi, Carlo; Haskil, Clara; Cor de Groot; Shure, Leonard; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Performances; Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra; Serkin, Rudolf; Boult, Adrian, Sir; Vienna Symphony; Otterloo, Willem van PDF IMAGES
95	The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Gauk, Aleksandr; Schoenberg, Arnold; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Shostakovich, Dmitriæi Dmitrievich; Mahler, Gustav; Rosbaud, Hans; Bernstein, Leonard; Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen (Sound recording); Mahler: Symphony #4 (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Kletzki, Paul; Philharmonia Orchestra of London; Prokofiev: Violin concerto #1; Violin concerto #2 (Sound recording); Schumann, Robert; Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (Sound recording); Schumann: Symphonic etudes; Kreisleriana (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Shostakovich: The festive overture; Memorable year 1919; Symphony #9 (Sound recording); Boult, Adrian, Sir; State Radio Orchestra (U.S.S.R.); Vienna Philharmonia PDF IMAGES
96	Jazz notes/Review Mr. Jelly Lord By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Lomax, Alan; Jazz; Morton, Jelly Roll; 1951-1960; Performances; The Library of Congress recordings (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES