Harper's Magazine: July 1959

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July 1959

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Dick Schiffer SEE ALSO: Extrasensory perception; Playing cards PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from May 1959: Letter By Hilbert Schenck and Jr. Letter By Joshua McClennen On The senators move in on our foreign policy, from May 1959: Letter By Palmer Van Gundy On The analyst's couch and the creative mind, from May 1959: Letter By Beatrice Simmons Letter By Beatrice Simcox Reiner Letter By Patricia Laurencelle On Upheaval in popular music, from May 1959: Letter By Edward Rubenstein PDF IMAGES
6	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
10-14	The editor's easy chair/Article TV and its critics By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Television broadcasting policy; Television programs; Television programs, Public service PDF IMAGES
14	Notice Harper's special supplement By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Special numbers; “Writing in America” (Harper's); Written communication PDF IMAGES
15-17	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: The two faces of ESP By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Extrasensory perception PDF IMAGES
19-25	Article The uncomfortable facts about extrasensory perception By Ian Stevenson SEE ALSO: Apparitions; Chance; Extrasensory perception; Investigation; Parapsychology PDF IMAGES
24	Article ESP and Westinghouse SEE ALSO: Experiments; Extrasensory perception; Investigation; Parapsychology; Telecommunication PDF IMAGES
26-31	Fiction Mr. KAPLAN and the glorious past (the second of three stories) By Leo Calvin Rosten* PDF IMAGES
32-39	Article The hidden affair between big business and big labor By Bernard D. Nossiter SEE ALSO: Big business; Employee stock options; Industrial relations; Inflation (Finance); Labor costs; 1945-1960; Trade-unions; Wage-price policy PDF IMAGES
34	Article The status seekers SEE ALSO: Career in jukeboxes—Humor; Community organization; Racketeering; Blatt, William M. (William Mosher) PDF IMAGES
39	Article And crashed immediately By Bernard Karsh SEE ALSO: Technological innovations PDF IMAGES
40-41	Article Creating the role of Juliet By Galina Sergeevna Ulanova SEE ALSO: Ballerinas; Career as ballerina; Choreography; Ulanova, Galina Sergeevna; Music; Prokofieff, Sergey PDF IMAGES
42-48	Article Recollections from beyond the last rope By Philip Roth SEE ALSO: Biography; Roth, Philip; Seaside resorts; Teenage boys PDF IMAGES
48	Poem The poet at seven By Donald Rodney Justice PDF IMAGES
49-54	Article Red China tackles its language problem By Kuo-p°ing Chou SEE ALSO: Chinese language; Dialects; Reform; Writing PDF IMAGES
55-61	Article The supersalesmen of California politics: Whitaker and Baxter By Irwin Ross SEE ALSO: Advertising, Political; Career as political consultant; Whitaker, Clement Sherman; Baxter, Leone; Political consultants; Political ethics; Women political consultants PDF IMAGES
62-64	Fiction A worthy man for a box: A story By Hayes B. Jacobs PDF IMAGES
64-68	Article Culture under Colorado's aspens By Frances McFadden SEE ALSO: Aspen (Colo.) PDF IMAGES
69-73	Article The growing art of anesthesia By James Robbins Miller SEE ALSO: Anesthesiologists; Anesthesiology PDF IMAGES
74-77	Article Protestant voices SEE ALSO: Cohen, Arthur Allen; Faith and reason; 1945-1960; Scharper, Philip J.; Portraits; Protestantism; Kaufmann, Walter Arnold; Bartley, William Warren PDF IMAGES
78-81	Article Symington: The last choice for President By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Democratic National Convention (1960 : Los Angeles, Calif.); The Democratic Party; 1953-1961; 1960; Symington, Stuart PDF IMAGES
82-83	After hours/Article Flavor in glass By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Corning; Exhibitions; Glassware PDF IMAGES
83-84	After hours/Article The panel chairman's report (universal) By H.W. (Harold W.) Williams SEE ALSO: Group work in research; Report writing PDF IMAGES
84	After hours/Poem The bite By Maxine Kumin PDF IMAGES
85-90	The new books/Review The elastic novel By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Curvers, Alexis; Blow up a storm (Book); Jacobson, Dan; Dragoman Pass (Book); Williams, Eric; Five families (Book); Kanin, Garson; Basso, Hamilton; Petrakis, Harry Mark; Kessel, Joseph; Lion at my heart (Book); Memoirs of a dutiful daughter (Book); Lewis, Oscar; Beauvoir, Simone de; Tempo di Roma (Book); The cool world (Book); The light infantry ball (Book); The lion (Book); The Zulu and the zeide (Book); Miller, Warren PDF IMAGES
90-92	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Maurois, André; Early havoc (Book); Janeway, Elizabeth; Workman, Gladys; Thurber, James; Havoc, June; Love in the mist (Book); Only when I laugh (Book); Maugham, Robin; Packard, Rosalie; The life of Sir Alexander Fleming (Book); The man with two shadows (Book); The third choice (Book); The years with Ross (Book) PDF IMAGES
92	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Knight, Arthur; Mayer, Arthur; Grey, Beryl; Biography; Skinner, Cornelia Otis; Rice, Elmer; Eugene O'Neill (Book); Sheen, Fulton J.(Fulton John); Goodness has nothing to do with it (Book); Morton, H.V. (Henry Vollam); Japanese (Book); Shaeffer, Louis; Lunatics and lovers (Book); West, Mae; Observations (Book); Koury, Phil A.; Photography, Artistic; Portraits of greatness (Book); Red curtain up (Book); Avedon, Richard; Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, Sir; The ape in me (Book); The Living Theatre (Book); This is Rome (Book); Capote, Truman; Yes, Mr. DeMille (Book); Karsh, Yousuf; Gabor, Zsa Zsa PDF IMAGES
93-94	The new recordings/Review Four keyboard personalities By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Beethoven: Piano sonata, op. 106 (“Hammerklavier”); Piano sonata, op. 81a (“Les Adieux”) (Sound recording); Beethoven: Piano sonatas (Sound recording); Pueyo, Eduardo del; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Performances; Rachmaninoff, Sergei; Marlowe, Sylvia; Sylvia Marlowe plays Bach (Sound recording); Gieseking, Walter PDF IMAGES
94	The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Dvorák, Antonín; Webern, Anton; Bamberg Symphony; Beethoven: Triple concerto; Leonore overture #3 (Sound recording); Berg; Brahms: Rhapsodies, op. 79; Fantasias, op. 116; Intermezzi, op. 117 (Sound recording); Walter, Bruno; Dvorák: Symphony #4 (Sound recording); Rosbaud, Hans; Stravinsky, Igor; Brahms, Johannes; Perlea, Jonel; Beethoven, Ludwig van; New York Philharmonic; Piano quartets—Beethoven, Schumann (Sound recording); Schumann, Robert; Stravinsky: Agon ballet. Berg: Three pieces for orchestra, op. 6. Webern: Six pieces for orchestra, op. 6 (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
95	Jazz notes/Review Revival By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Broun, Heywood Hale; Jazz; Jazz musicians; Knowledge—Jazz; 1951-1960; New Orleans PDF IMAGES