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September 1959

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Dick Schiffer SEE ALSO: Costume; Diplomats; Hats PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On TV and its critics, from July 1959: Letter By E.J. Gauss Letter By David Riesman Letter By Emanuel Celler Letter By A.S. Mike Monroney Letter By Robert W. Sarnoff PDF IMAGES
12-22	The easy chair/Article Why handle criminals with kid gloves? By Alan Barth SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Criminal justice, Administration of; Detention of persons; Police misconduct; Privacy, Right of; United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
18	Notice A special supplement on writing in America By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Special numbers; “Writing in America” (Harper's); Written communication PDF IMAGES
20	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
24-27	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Short, bright, costly By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Diplomatic and consular service, American PDF IMAGES
29-35	Article Our ambassadors: An intimate appraisal of the men and the system By Charles Wheeler Thayer SEE ALSO: Diplomatic and consular service, American; Diplomatic etiquette; Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes; Diplomats; 1945-1989 PDF IMAGES
35	Poem The explorer By Gwendolyn Brooks PDF IMAGES
36-39	Article Come back Detroit, all is forgiven By Janet Agle SEE ALSO: Automobile ownership; Maintenance and repair; Sports cars PDF IMAGES
40-48	Article The counter-revolution in architecture By Robin Boyd SEE ALSO: Architecture; Architecture, Modern; Career in architecture; Decoration and ornament; Stone, Edward Durell; Saarinen, Eero; Functionalism (Architecture); International style (Architecture) PDF IMAGES
49-54	Article Dictionaries: Our language right or wrong By Felicia Lamport SEE ALSO: Career in lexicography; Dictionaries; Etymology; Lexicographers; Trench, Richard Chenevix PDF IMAGES
54	Article The virtues of male novelists SEE ALSO: English fiction; Eliot, George; Mistaken identity; Women authors PDF IMAGES
55-59	Article Paul Ziffren: California's cure for tired Democratic blood By Arthur A. Engel SEE ALSO: Career as political consultant; Democratic National Convention (1960 : Los Angeles, Calif.); The Democratic Party; 1951-; Ziffren, Paul; Political consultants PDF IMAGES
56	Poem He speaks a critic speaks By Helga Sandburg PDF IMAGES
59	Article Thoreau and the Harvard libureaucracy By Ralph Waldo Emerson SEE ALSO: Books and reading; Cambridge; Circulation, loans; Harvard University; Thoreau, Henry David; Libraries; Libraries and readers PDF IMAGES
60-64	Fiction Darwinian man, though well-behaved . . . By Reese Wolfe PDF IMAGES
65-68	Article Cole Porter: An affectionate memoir By Moss Hart SEE ALSO: Artistic collaboration; Biography; Porter, Cole; Composers; Dramatists, American; Hart, Moss; Voyages around the world PDF IMAGES
69-75	Article The mathematics of sex, gambling, and insurance By Darrell Huff SEE ALSO: Gambling systems; Insurance; Probabilities; Sex ratio; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
76-79	Article Surgery helps the hard of hearing By John Freund SEE ALSO: Anatomy; Ear; Hearing impaired; Surgery PDF IMAGES
79	Poem The expectation By John Holmes PDF IMAGES
80-84	Article Whatever happened to Texas? By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Justice, Administration of PDF IMAGES
86	After hours/Article Presidents on art By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Art criticism; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Truman, Harry S.; Roosevelt, Theodore; Traveling exhibitions; Views on art PDF IMAGES After hours/Article Some notes on the western wines By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Haraszthy, Agoston; Career in wine making; Wine and wine making PDF IMAGES
92-99	The new books/Review Of lions and lambs By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Advise and consent (Book); Sillitoe, Alan; Drury, Allen; Balcony in the forest (Book); Kiker, Douglas; Flight of Ikaros (Book); Gibney, Frank; Gracq, Julien; Andrews, Kevin; No love for Johnnie (Book); Niebuhr, Reinhold; Howard, Richard; Saturday night and Sunday morning (Book); Strangers on the shore (Book); The frozen revolution (Book); The structure of nations and empires (Book); Fienburgh, Wilfred PDF IMAGES
99-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Goodman, Aubrey; Barbara Greer (Book); Fox, Charles Philip; Day before yesterday, the reminiscences of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (Book); Roosevelt, Eleanor; Letter to Louise: Theodore Dreiser's letters to Louise Campbell (Book); Campbell, Louise Grace; New face in the mirror (Book); De Vries, Peter; Birmingham, Stephen; Tents of wickedness (Book); The golden youth of Lee Prince (Book); Dreiser, Theodore; Ticket to the circus (Book); Dayan, Yaël PDF IMAGES
101	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A natural history of New York City (Book); Hines, Bob; Colette; For a flower album (Book); Davis, H.L. (Harold Lenoir); Kieran, John; Kettle of fire (Book); Matthiessen, Peter; Wildlife in America (Book) PDF IMAGES Books in brief/Correction Books in brief By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Salvadori, Massimo; The economics of freedom (Book) PDF IMAGES
102-104	Music in the round/Review Music in the round By Discus SEE ALSO: Die Dreigroschenoper (Sound recording); Moore, Douglas; Poulenc, Francis; Menotti, Gian Carlo; Weill, Kurt; Les dialogues des Carmelites (Sound recording); Maria Golovin (Book); The devil and Daniel Webster (Book) PDF IMAGES
104	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Grossmann, Ferdinand; Florian; Glinka: Life for the tsar (Sound recording); Weisgall, Hugo; Markevitch, Igor; Massenet, Jules; Lamoureux Orchestra; Massenet: Manon (Sound recording); Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich; Gedda, Nicolai; Opéra-Comique Orchestra; Performances; Monteux, Pierre; Zandonai, Riccardo; Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Weisgall: The tenor (Sound recording); Zandonai: L'ucellino d'oro (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
105	Jazz notes/Review Something borrowed By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Miller, Glenn; Glenn Miller, Army Air Force Band (Sound recording); Glenn Miller, for the very first time (Sound recording); Jazz; 1951-1960; The sound of surprise (Book); Balliett, Whitney PDF IMAGES