Harper's Magazine: August 1958

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August 1958

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	Illustration [Cover art] By George Samerjan and Arnold Newman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Journalists; Portraits; White, William Smith PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The untold story behind Little Rock, from June 1958: Letter By Dorothy Rousos Livadas Letter By Odom Fanning Letter By Lora Pearce Letter By Warren S. Walker Letter By William H. Conners PDF IMAGES
8	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
10-14	The editor's easy chair/Article The non-sexual behavior of the human female By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
14-15	The editor's easy chair/Article Gwinn and bear it By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Bronxville; Career in politics; Conservatism; Gwinn, Ralph W.; Voting PDF IMAGES
16-19	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Count 'em By John Fischer SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Circulation PDF IMAGES
21-27	Article Labor should get out of politics By Dick Bruner SEE ALSO: 1953-1961; Organizing; Trade-unions; United Automobile Workers PDF IMAGES
23	Poem Phoenix: For Santha and Faubion By David Louis Posner PDF IMAGES
26	Article But you still have to read signs By Alfred A. Knopf SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Automobile driver education; Literacy PDF IMAGES
28-34	Article New York's gay old lady: Whatever is happening to the Times? By Ben Rathbun SEE ALSO: Sulzberger, Arthur Hays; Career as New York times publisher; Adams, Frank; Language & Linguistics; Berger, Meyer; New York times; Newspaper employees; Portraits; Rogers, Ray; Sections, columns, etc. PDF IMAGES
35-43	Article The shadows of the gods: A critical view of the American theater By Arthur Miller SEE ALSO: American drama; Miller, Arthur; Biography; Cat on a hot tin roof (Play); Dramatists, American; Technique; Williams, Tennessee PDF IMAGES
44	Article Eloise in academia By Felicia Lamport SEE ALSO: Criticism; Thompson, Kay; Psychoanalysis and literature PDF IMAGES
45-49	Article Making cigarette ads tell the truth By John A. Blatnik SEE ALSO: Advertising and children; Cigarettes; Deceptive advertising; Federal Trade Commission PDF IMAGES
46	Fiction Togetherness among the Comanches By Frank X. Tolbert PDF IMAGES
49	Poem Apology for no poems By William Gibson PDF IMAGES
50-58	Fiction Something spurious from the Mindanao Deep: A story By Wallace Earle Stegner PDF IMAGES
59-65	Article America's super-cities By Christopher Tunnard SEE ALSO: Anticipations (Book); Garden cities; Wells, H.G. (Herbert George); Metropolitan areas; Open spaces; Regional planning; Rural development PDF IMAGES
66-71	Article Very significant chair By Peter Blake and Jane Fiske McCullough SEE ALSO: Career in chair design; Chair design; Ferrari Hardoy, Jorge PDF IMAGES
72-74	Article A gadget to cut down on mid-air collisions By A.M. (Arthur Martin) Watkins SEE ALSO: Aircraft accidents PDF IMAGES
74	Article The ultimate machine By Arthur Charles Clarke SEE ALSO: Technological innovations PDF IMAGES
75	Poem Soren Kierkegaard By A.L. (Alfred Leslie) Rowse PDF IMAGES
76-80	Article Trying to find the shape—if any—of the news in Washington By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Attribution of news; Confidential communications; 1953-1961; Objectivity; Press PDF IMAGES
80	Poem The other lives By Robert Pack PDF IMAGES
81-82	After hours/Article Nobody here but us victims By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Automobile industry and trade; Consumer behavior; Prices PDF IMAGES
82-83	After hours/Article Art in the top third By John Fischer SEE ALSO: A guide to the art museums of New England (Book); Art museums; Faison, S. Lane (Samson Lane) PDF IMAGES
83	After hours/Article Culture note By Hally Prentis Nelson SEE ALSO: Courtesy; Helping behavior; Quotations; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Saint Louis; Women travelers PDF IMAGES
84-89	The new books/Review The cultured man and some less formidable types By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Boulton, Agnes; Powell, Anthony; Montagu, Ashley; At Lady Molly's (Book); Lessing, Doris May; Alpert, Hollis; Barth, John; Holmes, John Clellon; Hayes, Joseph Arnold; Renault, Mary; Part of a long story (Book); The cultured man (Book); The end of the road (Book); The habit of loving (Book); The horn (Book); The hours after midnight (Book); The king must die (Book); The summer lovers (Book) PDF IMAGES
89-91	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Born innocent (Book); Burnham, Creighton Brown; Entry E (Sound recording); Hunter, Evan; Guareschi, Giovanni; Alleg, Henri; Symons, Julian; Mayor watching and other pleasures (Book); My secret diary (Book); Hamburger, Philip; Frede, Richard; Strangers when we meet (Book); The color of murder (Book); The question (Book) PDF IMAGES
91	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Alec Templeton's music boxes (Book); Dumas, Alexandre; Alexandre Dumas' dictionary of cuisine (Book); Steinberg, Alfred; MacDonald, Duncan, Broadcaster; Lee, Calvin B.T.; Chinese cooking for American kitchens (Book); Cookery; Cooking the smart way (Book); Taylor, Demetria M.; Jablonski, Edward; Roosevelt, Eleanor; Eleanor Roosevelt: her life in pictures (Book); Newman, Ernest; Patterson, Evelyn R.; Family-favorite meat cook book (Book); Folk blues (Book); Folk music; Game cookery in America and Europe (Book); George Gershwin: the man and the legend (Book); Gourmet kitchen (Book); Kolodin, Irving; Silverman, Jerry; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Johann Sebastian Bach: clavier-büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (Book); McCarthy, Josie; Smith, Kate; Stewart, Lawrence D.(Lawrence Delbert); Flexner, Marion W.; Armitage, Merle; More essays from the world of music (Book); Mrs. R: the life of Eleanor Roosevelt (Book); Cazden, Norman; On my own (Book); Baumel, Rachel Bail; Rain, hail and baked beans: a New England seasonal cookbook (Book); Martin, Ralph G.; Camp, Raymond R. (Raymond Russell); Harrity, Richard; Sagendorph, Robb Hansell; The Abelard folk song book (Book); The Gershwin years (Book); The Kate Smith Company's coming cookbook (Book); The musical life (Book) PDF IMAGES
92-94	The new recordings/Review Stereo disc: The coming big merger By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Schumann, Elisabeth; Elizabeth Schumann—Wolf, Strauss lieder (Sound recording); Güden, Hilde; Hilde Gueden recital (lieder by R. Strauss) (Sound recording); Wolf, Hugo; Seefried, Irmgard; Della Casa, Lisa; Performances; Strauss, Richard; Stereophonic sound systems PDF IMAGES
93	The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Poell, Alfred; Alfred Poell sings songs of Wolf (Sound recording); Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Songs, op. 16; Hungarian folk songs (Sound recording); Fischer-Dieskau; Mahler, Gustav; Wolf, Hugo; Brahms, Johannes; Flagstad, Kirsten; Kirsten Flagstad Brahms recital (Sound recording); László, Magda; Mahler: Songs of a wayfarer. Brahms: Lieder (Sound recording); Performances; Furtwängler, Wilhelm PDF IMAGES
94	The new recordings/Review A sour note on stereo By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Stereophonic sound systems PDF IMAGES Jazz notes/Review Fats By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Waller, Fats; Wilson, John S. (John Steuart); Performances; The collector's jazz (Book) PDF IMAGES