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February 1960

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Burt Goldblatt and Homer Page (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Schizophrenia in children PDF IMAGES
4-11	Letters/Department Letters On Christmas list, from December 1959: Letter By Roy Wilkins Letter By “A public school teacher” Letter By Gerald M. Pomper Letter By Robert C. Weaver On It's not the gift it's the wrapping, from December 1959: Letter By Mary von Euler PDF IMAGES
11	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
12-21	The easy chair/Article How to look at billboards By Howard Luck Gossage SEE ALSO: Advertising laws; Billboards PDF IMAGES
22-26	After hours/Article How to engineer a perfect cup of coffee By M.N. Stiles PDF IMAGES
29-34	Article Mr. Nixon's remedy for inflation By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Anti-inflationary policies; Deficit financing; Effect of inflation on; Government securities; Inflation (Finance); 1945-1960; 1953-1961; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Views on inflation PDF IMAGES
32	Poem Maybe 15 mph for the candlestickmaker By Helga Sandburg PDF IMAGES
35-36	Article The darlings at the top of the stairs By James Thurber SEE ALSO: Children's writings, American; Creative ability in children; Parent and child PDF IMAGES
37-43	Article A good house nowadays is hard to find By A.M. (Arthur Martin) Watkins SEE ALSO: Building laws; Construction industry; Costs; House buying; House construction; Quality control; Workmanship PDF IMAGES
44-49	Article Men to match Japan's mountains By Allan R. (Allan Rucker) Bosworth SEE ALSO: Sumo; Training PDF IMAGES
50-56	Article Exploring the great deeps By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Atlantic Ocean; Columbia University; Oceanography PDF IMAGES
57-66	Article The rebirth of Jonny By Mira Rothenberg SEE ALSO: Schizophrenia in children PDF IMAGES
67-76	Article The Kremlin's unruly little brothers (part II) By Arthur Meier Schlesinger SEE ALSO: Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; Communism; Ideology; Journeys—Soviet Union; 1945-1991; Poland; Totalitarianism; Yugoslavia PDF IMAGES
77-91	Article Housekeeping at the big museum By Edith Iglauer SEE ALSO: Art museums; Buildings; Maintenance; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
91	Poem To a mad friend By Peter Davison PDF IMAGES
92-96	Fiction The betrothal: A story By Lorna Doone Beers PDF IMAGES
97-102	Article Humor in politics By William Smith White SEE ALSO: 1953-1961; 1960; Political satire, American PDF IMAGES
103-110	The new books/Review Points of departure and of no return By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A summer world (Book); Moorehead, Alan; Billy Liar (Book); Hawley, Cameron; Born, Edith de; Maxwell, Gavin; Swarthout, Glendon Fred; Shaw, Irwin; Leggett, John; Waterhouse, Keith; No room in the ark (Book); Dougherty, Richard; The house in Vienna (Book); The Lincoln Lords (Book); The ten pains of death (Book); Two weeks in another town (Book); Where the boys are (Book); Wilder Stone (Book) PDF IMAGES
110-112	Review Paperbacks reviewed and previewed By Aileen Pippett SEE ALSO: Gide, André; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott); James, Henry; Galsworthy, John; Lafcadio's adventures (Book); Edel, Leon; Man of property (Book); Paperbacks; Tender is the night (Book); The ambassadors (Book); The art of the novel (Book); The great Gatsby (Book); The selected letters of Henry James (Book) PDF IMAGES
112-113	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Churchill, the walk with destiny (Book); Comic art in America (Book); Crime (Book); Miller, H. Tatlock (Harry Tatlock); Edel, Leon; Literary biography (Book); Sainthill, Loudon; Bentley, Nicholas; Only in New England: the story of a gaslight crime (Book); Martin, Ralph G.; Harrity, Richard; Lorant, Stefan; Becker, Stephen D.; Longstreet, Stephen; The ever-lovin' blue-eyed years with Pogo (Book); The human side of F.D.R. (Book); The life and times of Theodore Roosevelt (Book); The pick of Punch 1959 (Book); Roscoe, Theodore; Kelly, Walt PDF IMAGES
113	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A history of the Museum of Modern Art (Book); Biography; Dr. R.: A.S.W. Rosenbach, his life and times (Book); Wolf, Edwin; Farr, Finis; Wright, Frank Lloyd; Reed, Henry Hope; Fleming, John F. (John Francis); Study in fame (Book) PDF IMAGES
114-116	Music in the round/Review Intellectuals and the opera By Discus SEE ALSO: Boito; Siepi, Cesare; Donizetti; Leinsdorf, Erich; Tagliavini, Ferruccio; Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Verdi, Giuseppe; Güden, Hilde; L'elisir d'amore (Sound recording); Warren, Leonard; Rysanek, Leonie; Lucia (Sound recording); Macbeth (Sound recording); Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Callas, Maria; Del Monaco, Mario; Mefistofele (Sound recording); Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra; Tebaldi, Renata; Serafin, Tulio PDF IMAGES
116	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Saint-Saëns, Camille; French National Radio Orchestra; Darré, Jeanne-Marie; Locatelli: Concerti grossi, op. 1, #8, #9, #11, #12 (Sound recording); Fourestier, Louis; Performances; Locatelli, Pietro Antonio; Saint-Saëns: Septet for piano, trumpet and strings; Piano concerto #5 (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES Notice A special supplement on the Civil War By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Special numbers PDF IMAGES
117	Jazz notes/Review Pres By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; Young, Lester; 1951-1960; Performances PDF IMAGES