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June 1960

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Bob Cato PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On American colleges, from April 1960: Letter By Ed Andreopoulos Letter By William P. Keim On How small business cuts its throat, from April 1960: Letter By John Sparkman Letter By William Proxmire Letter By George J. Burger Letter By Alan P. Suits Letter By George S. Odiorne On Caribou year, from April 1960: Letter By Martin Reite On Why waste our five-year-olds?, from April 1960: Letter By Mary Alice Wilson Letter By Mary E. Hope Letter By Helene Kaplan Letter By H. Kruse Letter By Mary Alice Philips Letter By Mary Frances S. Miller On A fresh appraisal of the Civil War, from April 1960: Letter By Charles Coulter Letter By Don Dorrance Letter By Richard H. Fitzpatrick On Hard questions for Senator Kennedy, from April 1960: Letter By Robert E. Moore Letter By Richard M. Titus Letter By Mary A. John PDF IMAGES
14-22	The easy chair/Article Death of a giant By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Advertising, Magazine; American periodicals; Circulation; Periodicals, Publishing of; The view from the fortieth floor (Book); White, Theodore Harold PDF IMAGES
20	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
23-26	After hours/Article Pursuing the Romanesque By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Burgundy; Provence; Provence (France) PDF IMAGES
26-27	After hours/Article Young audiences By Roger Maren SEE ALSO: Audiences; Performing arts; Princeton PDF IMAGES
29-36	Article Politics for a new generation: Part I By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Cold War; Defenses; Disarmament; 1961-1963; 1961-1971 PDF IMAGES
33	Notice How is it where you are going? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Circulation; Readership surveys; Voyages and travels PDF IMAGES
34	Poem Country blessing By Thomas B. (Thomas Bacon) Whitbread PDF IMAGES
37-40	Article What happens out of town By Jean Kerr SEE ALSO: Production and direction; Women dramatists, American PDF IMAGES
41-48	Article The Negro revolt against “the Negro leaders” By Louis E. Lomax SEE ALSO: African American civic leaders; Civil rights demonstrations; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Segregation PDF IMAGES
49-54	Article The far-out pianist By Harold C. Schonberg SEE ALSO: Boulez: Sonata #2 (Music); Career as composer; Career as pianist; Chance composition; Composers; Tudor, David; Cage, John; Feldman, Morton; Musical sketches; Pianists; Boulez, Pierre PDF IMAGES Collection The far-out pianist By Harold C. Schonberg PDF IMAGES
51	Article Score for BB by John Cage: From concert for piano and orchestra By Harold C. Schonberg SEE ALSO: Chance compositions; Concert for piano and orchestra (Music); Cage, John; Musical sketches PDF IMAGES
52	Article Score for BK 50:44 by John Cage: From concert for piano and orchestra By Harold C. Schonberg SEE ALSO: Chance compositions; Concert for piano and orchestra (Music); Cage, John; Musical sketches PDF IMAGES
53	Article Vb) by Sylvano Bussotti: From piano pieces for David Tudor By Harold C. Schonberg SEE ALSO: Chance compositions; Tudor, David; Musical sketches; Performances; Pieces for David Tudor #1 (Music); Bussotti, Sylvano PDF IMAGES
55-59	Fiction The fig tree: A story By Katherine Anne Porter PDF IMAGES
60-66	Article Massachusetts General: What it takes to make a great hospital By Frances Burns SEE ALSO: Administration; Hospitals PDF IMAGES
67-74	Article How to rescue New York from its Port Authority By Edward T. Chase SEE ALSO: Commuting traffic; Fares; New York Metropolitan Area; Subways; Traffic congestion; Transportation; Transportation and state PDF IMAGES
73	Poem A hundred nights By Maxine Kumin PDF IMAGES
78-81	Fiction The Greeks come to the Isola: A story By Dean Acheson PDF IMAGES
82-86	Article Measuring the Presidential candidates (the second of two articles) By Richard Halworth Rovere SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio); Kennedy, John F.; 1953-1961; 1960; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
86	Poem Crabs By Judson Jerome PDF IMAGES
87-90	Article Drip and hang up to dry By Malcolm Bradbury SEE ALSO: Bachelors; College teachers; Laundry; Middle West PDF IMAGES
92-96	Public and personal/Article Home town, Washington By William Smith White PDF IMAGES
97-103	The new books/Review People with power By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A lonesome porch (Book); Wheelis, Allen; Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy); Fielding, Gabriel; Hail to the chief (Book); van Velde, Jacoba; Reichley, James; Carter, John Franklin; Gunther, John; Lange, Monique; Pierce, Ovid Williams; Pasinetti, P.M.; Power and persuasion (Book); Taken at the flood: the story of Albert D. Lasker (Book); The affair (Book); The big ward (Book); The kissing fish (Book); The seeker (Book); Through streets broad and narrow (Book); Venetian Red (Book) PDF IMAGES
103-105	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Garve, Andrew; Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron; Born free (Book); Lindsay, Cynthia; Byran, J., III; West, Jessamyn; Aldridge, John W.; Adamson, Joy; South of the angels (Book); The golden deed (Book); The innocents at home: a visit to the U.S.A. (Book); The natives are restless (Book); The party at Cranton (Book); The sword over the mantel: the Civil War and I (Book) PDF IMAGES
105	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A number of things (Book); West, Anthony; Moore, Brian; Digging up America (Book); Hibben, Frank C. (Frank Cummings); Guess, Frank W.; Kane, Harnett Thomas; Harper Lee; Brown, Harry; Tracy, Honor; Dinesen, Isak; Weidman, Jerome; Land of the long horizons: the Midwest (Book); Callaghan, Morley; Hale, Nancy; New England discovery (Book); Morison, Samuel Eliot; Steinberg, Saul; Shadows in the grass (Book); South Carolina (Book); Steinberg's America (Book); The faces of blood kindred (Book); The good years: from 1900 to the First World War (Book); The luck of Ginger Coffey (Book); The many-colored coat (Book); The romantic South (Book); The stars in their courses (Book); The story of Mt. Desert Island, Maine (Book); The trend is up (Book); They told me you were dead (Book); To kill a mockingbird (Book); Havighurst, Walter; Lord, Walter; Goyen, William PDF IMAGES
106-108	Music in the round/Review From fighter to weeper By Discus SEE ALSO: Beethoven: Symphony #9; Missa solemnis (Sound recording); Boston Symphony; Munch, Charles; Chicago Symphony; Konwitschny, Franz; Reiner, Fritz; Mahler, Gustav; Karajan, Herbert von; Ludwig, Leopold; London Symphony; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen (Sound recording); Mahler: Symphony #4 (Sound recording); Mahler: Symphony #9 (Sound recording); Forrester, Maureen; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra PDF IMAGES Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Galliera, Alceo; Moffo, Anna; Toscanini, Arturo; Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Music for strings, percussion, and celesta; Hungarian sketches (Sound recording); Beethoven: Symphony #3 (“Eroica”) (Sound recording); Chicago Symphony; Reiner, Fritz; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Mozart: Arias (Sound recording); NBC Symphony; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra; Rachmaninoff: Preludes (Sound recording); Rachmaninoff, Sergei; Gordon, Stewart; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
108	Jazz notes/Review Trane By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Cookin' (Sound recording); Jazz; Coltrane, John; Davis, Miles; Miles (Sound recording); 1951-1960; Performances; Relaxin' (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES