Harper's Magazine: November 1958

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November 1958

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By George Samerjan SEE ALSO: Dramatists, American; Playbills; Portraits; Inge, William PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Self-portrait of the Harper reader, from September 1958: Letter By Wilson M. Dokken Letter By Leroy De Camp Letter By Mr. & Mrs. Richard Dowell Letter By Neal Galpern Letter By Howard W. Flinn PDF IMAGES
12-20	The editor's easy chair/Article Unfinished business By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Cold War; 1945-1960; 1953-1961; Representative government and representation PDF IMAGES
16	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
24-28	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Hypnotic trance By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
31-36	Article Unsnarling traffic: On the roads, rails, and airways By John I. Snyder SEE ALSO: Aircraft accidents; Passenger traffic; Traffic congestion; Transportation PDF IMAGES
33	Article Useful in other ways, too SEE ALSO: Pocketknives; Pottsville; School children PDF IMAGES
36	Poem Relic By Ted Hughes PDF IMAGES
37-44	Article Sarah Lawrence: For the rich, bright, and beautiful By David Boroff SEE ALSO: Bronxville; Curricula; Progressive education; Women college students PDF IMAGES
45-49	Article The job the Protestants shirk By Truman B. Douglass SEE ALSO: Church and social problems; City churches; Inner cities; Membership; Protestant churches PDF IMAGES
50-51	Article “Dear Justice . . .” By Juliet Lowell SEE ALSO: Legal correspondence PDF IMAGES
52-57	Article The men-taming women of William Inge By Robert Sanford Brustein SEE ALSO: American drama; Dark at the top of the stairs (Play); Kazan, Elia; In literature; Middle West; Production and direction; Inge, William PDF IMAGES
57	Poem The ugly duckling By Allen Kanfer PDF IMAGES
58-63	Fiction Sweetheart, sweetheart, sweetheart By Aubrey Goodman PDF IMAGES
64-71	Article Scientists with half-closed minds By Ian Stevenson SEE ALSO: Discoveries in science; Errors, Scientific; Medical misconceptions; Philosophy PDF IMAGES
72-77	Article Elephants have the right of way By Laurence Davis Lafore SEE ALSO: Africa, East; Safaris; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
78-82	Article Bix and his lost music By Ralph Berton SEE ALSO: Beiderbecke, Bix; Career as jazz musician; Baker, Dorothy; Jazz musicians; Trumpet players; Young man with a horn (Book) PDF IMAGES
83-90	Article Why Latin America distrusts us By Thayer Waldo SEE ALSO: Economic assistance, American; Latin America; Military assistance, American; 1948-1980; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
92-98	Article The American genius for hypocrisy By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Ethics; Hypocrisy; 1953-1961; Political ethics; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
100-102	Mr. Harper's after hours/Article Wine-bibbing By Alec Waugh SEE ALSO: Folklore; Storage; Wine; Wine tasting PDF IMAGES
102-103	Mr. Harper's after hours/Article A million surprises a day By Bernard Asbell SEE ALSO: Advertising and children; Career in Cracker Jack novelties; Howey, P.H. PDF IMAGES
106-119	The new books/Review The city and some wicked citizens By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Taylor, Elizabeth; Greene, Graham; Murdoch, Iris; Herold, J. Christopher; Kerouac, Jack; Heinroth, Katharina; Cottrell, Leonard; Mistress to an age (Book); Heinroth, Oskar; Our man in Havana (Book); Puissesseau, René; Wright, Richard; Someone will die tonight in the Caribbean (Book); The bell (Book); The birds (Book); The bull of Minos (Book); The Dharma bums (Book); The exploding metropolis (Book); The long dream (Book) PDF IMAGES
120-124	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Liebling, A.J. (Abbott Joseph); Davidson, Angus; But I wouldn't want to live there: the adventures of an American girl who traveled without being broadened (Book); Levi, Carlo; Cornflakes and beaujolais (Book); MacKenzie, Donald; Streeter, Edward; d'Alessandro, Guiletta; Jiménez, Heather; I wish he would not die (Book); Aldridge, James; Cooper, Diana, Lady; Worthington, Marjorie Muir; Vasiliu, Mircea; Miss Alcott of Concord: a biography (Book); Mr. Robbins rides again (Book); Normandy revisited: a sentimental journey (Book); Roberts, Paul; Scent of danger (Book); The child across the river (Book); The rainbow comes and goes (Book); Words are stones (Book) PDF IMAGES
124	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Ben-Gurion: the biography of an extraordinary man (Book); Elephant Hill (Book); Evelyn Waugh (Book); Birmingham, Frederic Alexander; Stopp, Frederick John; Hawaii (Book); How green grows the ivy (Book); Michener, James A. (James Albert); Jones, James; Baines, Jocelyn; Joseph Conrad: a biography (Book); St. John, Robert; White, Robin; The pistol (Book) PDF IMAGES
125-128	The new recordings/Review The new stereo discs By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Dvorák, Antonín; Fiedler, Arthur; Boston Pops Orchestra; Boston Symphony; Munch, Charles; Chicago Symphony; Dvorák: Serenade in D minor (Sound recording); Ormandy, Eugene; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Reiner, Fritz; Grofé; Grofé: Grand Canyon suite (Sound recording); Swarowsky, Hans; Offenbach, Jacques; Strauss, Johann; Krips, Josef; Rossi, Mario; Ravel, Maurice; Mendelssohn: Italian and Reformation symphonies (Sound recording); Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich; Moussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an exhibition (Sound recording); Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay; Offenbach: Gaîté parisienne (Sound recording); Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Philadelphia Orchestra; Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade (Sound recording); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Simon; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Stereophonic sound systems; Tchaikovsky: Symphony #2 (“Little Russian”) (Sound recording); The blue Danube (Sound recording); Vienna Philharmonia; Vienna State Opera Orchestra PDF IMAGES
127	The new recordings/Review Worth hearing By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Berlin Radio Symphony; Ansermet, Ernest; Stravinsky, Igor; Bernstein, Leonard; Maazel, Lorin; New York Philharmonic; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Stravinsky: Apollon musagète; Renard (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Firebird suite; Le Chant du Rossignol (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Petrushka (complete ballet) (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
129	Jazz notes/Review Origins By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Lomax, Alan; Broonzy, Big Bill; Jazz; 1951-1960; Negro prison songs (Sound recording); Performances PDF IMAGES