Harper's Magazine: October 1960

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October 1960

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On That dam situation in Hampden, from July 1960: Letter By Judith Hagerty Letter By Lauramae Anne Windnagel Letter By James W. Poling On Rand, from July 1960: Letter By Robert H. Sollen On Christ under communism, from August 1960: Letter By Carl Armin Viehe Letter By George Ewald Letter By Robert W. Williams Letter By William P. Snyder On The revolution in small plane flying, from August 1960: Letter By Neil L. Fraser Letter By William Finberg On America the expendable, from August 1960: Letter By Mary C. Russell Letter By Patricia R. Iverson Letter By Anne L. New On Politics for a new generation, from August 1960: Letter By Robert C. Smith Letter By Leon H. Keyserling Letter By Noel P. Conlon On The double image of American business abroad, from August 1960: Letter By Henry H. West Letter By John T. Kimball On Monocle, from August 1960: Letter By “The Editors” On The long retreat, from August 1960: Letter By Charles R. Edson Letter By Marc Pilisuk PDF IMAGES
14-20	The editor's easy chair/Article The choice By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Kennedy, John F.; 1960; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Voting PDF IMAGES
22-25	After hours/Article Revealing rubble By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Leisure; Real estate business; Vacation homes PDF IMAGES
25	After hours/Article Monocle located By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Monocle (American periodical); New Haven; Periodicals, Publishing of PDF IMAGES After hours/Article FM on wheels By Pyke Johnson SEE ALSO: FM broadcasting; Music radio stations PDF IMAGES
30-31	After hours/Article Representative good music stations (FM) By Pyke Johnson SEE ALSO: Directories; FM broadcasting; Music radio stations PDF IMAGES
33-38	Article How an election was bought and sold SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Corrupt practices; Elections PDF IMAGES
38	Article Things are tough all over . . . By Cathie Breslin SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Corrupt practices; Elections; Montréal; Montréal (Québec); Québec (Province) PDF IMAGES
39-44	Article Command performance: A British critic's report on his interrogation by a Senate committee By Kenneth Tynan SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Career as British theater critic; Tynan, Kenneth; Legislative hearings; National security; Powers and duties; Theater critics; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
44	Article On both your houses SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Des Moines; Iowa; Legislative hearings; Oratory; Powers and duties; Arens, Richard; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
45	Poem Hierosulem By Hilary Corke PDF IMAGES
46-48	Article The mathematics of polygamy By Herbert Passin SEE ALSO: Nigeria; Polygamy; Sex ratio PDF IMAGES
49-51	Article Nadia Boulanger: An affectionate portrait By Aaron Copland SEE ALSO: Stravinsky, Igor; Influence; Instruction and study; Music; Boulanger, Nadia; Portraits; Women music teachers PDF IMAGES
52-59	Article Our exiled airmen in England By Clancy Sigal SEE ALSO: Airmen; Foreign service; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; United States. Air Force; United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command PDF IMAGES
56	Notice Where did you go? What did you do? By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Circulation; Readership surveys; Voyages and travels PDF IMAGES
60-66	Fiction The mask: A story By Mira Michal PDF IMAGES
69-74	Article The cults of “research” and “creativity” By Jacques Barzun SEE ALSO: Creative thinking; Graduate work; Learning and scholarship; Research grants PDF IMAGES
72	Article As the drunken crow flies SEE ALSO: Airways; Transcontinental flights PDF IMAGES
75-76	Article Shelterbelts: A “failure” that didn't happen By Arthur Hawthorne Carhart SEE ALSO: Great Plains; New Deal, 1933-1939; Soil conservation PDF IMAGES
79-94	Article What the press has done to Boston and vice versa By Peter Braestrup SEE ALSO: Boston (Mass.); Newspaper publishing; Press coverage PDF IMAGES
94	Poem To some uncertain birds By James Arlington Wright PDF IMAGES
96-101	Public and personal/Article A better way to run our political conventions By William Smith White SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1953-1961; Platforms; Political conventions; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
102-110	The new books/Review The rich: They are nearly always with us By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A sketch of my life (Book); Terëtìs, Abram; Moore, Brian; Winston, Clara; Reid, Frances F.; Lowe-Porter, H. T. (Helen Tracy); Wegener, Herbert; Marquand, John P. (John Phillips); Auchincloss, Louis; Mann, Monika; Past and present (Book); Rich people; Winston, Richard; Hein, Ruth; Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer; The house of five talents (Book); The householder (Book); The luck of Ginger Coffey (Book); The trial begins (Book); Mann, Thomas; Thomas Mann: letters to Paul Amann (Book); Timothy Dexter revisited (Book) PDF IMAGES
110-114	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A minority: a report on the life of the male homosexual in Great Britain (Book); A number of things (Book); Kaye, Barrington; Roueché, Berton; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott); Frank, Gerold; Westwood, Gordon; Tracy, Honor; It had been a mild delicate night (Book); Lusardi, Lewis; My royal past; the memoirs of Baroness Von Bülop (Book); Flora, Paul; Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, Sir; Taps at reveille (Book); The faces of blood kindred (Book); The neutral spirit: a portrait of alcohol (Book); The peacock eye (Book); Viva vamp (Book); Goyen, William; Zsa Zsa Gabor, my story, written for me (Book) PDF IMAGES
114-115	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Ava (Book); Botkin, Benjamin Albert; Catton, Bruce; Davis, Burke; Foote, Corydon Edward; Hanna, David; Miers, Earl Schenck; Vandiver, Frank Everson; Good bye, Ava (Book); Journey to Shiloh (Book); Jubal's raid (Book); Love and Mrs. Sargent (Book); Hormel, Olive Deane; Our incredible Civil War (Book); Dennis, Patrick; Angle, Paul; Bissell, Richard Pike; Tales, legends, and folklore of the Civil War (Book); The American Heritage picture history of the Civil War (Book); The Civil War at sea: January 1861-March 1862: the blockaders (Book); The tragic years, 1860-1865 (Book); Jones, Virgil Carrington; Whitman, Walt; Walt Whitman's Civil War (Book); Lowenfels, Walter; Henry, Will; With Sherman to the sea, a drummer's story of the Civil War (Book) PDF IMAGES
115	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
116-120	Music in the round/Review New worlds of sound By Discus SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Bluebeard's castle (Sound recording); Bartók: Concerto for orchestra (Sound recording); Bartók: Music for strings, percussion, and celesta (Sound recording); Berg; Berlin Radio Symphony; Chicago Symphony; Milhaud, Darius; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Varèse, Edgard; Ansermet, Ernest; Ormandy, Eugene; Fricsay, Ferenc; Reiner, Fritz; Töpper, Hertha; Lamoureux Orchestra; Bernstein, Leonard; Milhaud: The four seasons (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Performances; Philadelphia Orchestra; Prokofieff: Symphony #4 (Sound recording); Craft, Robert; Schoenberg; Schoenberg: Five pieces for orchestra. Berg: Altenburg lieder. Webern: Five pieces for string orchestra (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Varèse: Ionization; Density 21.5; Intègrales; Octandre; Hyperprism; Poème électronique (Sound recording); Webern PDF IMAGES
120	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Piano concerto #2; Piano concerto #3 (Sound recording); Duparc: Songs (Sound recording); Sándor, György; Bouvier, Hélène; Duparc, Henri; Gielen, Michael; Performances; Pro Musica Orchestra PDF IMAGES Jazz notes/Review The hard way By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Salim, A.K.; Jazz; Looking ahead (Sound recording); 1951-1960; Pretty for the people (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
121-168	Collection The crisis in American medicine PDF IMAGES
122-123	Article Foreword By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Medical economics; Medicine; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
124-131	Article The politics of medicine By Edward T. Chase SEE ALSO: American Medical Association; Death and burial; Hospitals; Garabedian, Joseph; Managed care plans (Medical care); Medical economics; Medical policy; Staff PDF IMAGES
127	Article An assist from the morticians By T.R. B. SEE ALSO: American Medical Association; Insurance, Health; Undertakers and undertaking PDF IMAGES
132-137	Article The decline of the healing art By Selig Greenberg SEE ALSO: Group medical practice; Medicine, Psychosomatic; Physician and patient PDF IMAGES
136	Article Before the cure By Herman Miles Somers and Anne Ramsay Somers SEE ALSO: Social policy PDF IMAGES
138-143	Article The patient's right to die By Joseph F. Fletcher SEE ALSO: Euthanasia; Medical ethics; Right to die PDF IMAGES
142	Poem Finally By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
144-150	Article Do you really want a family doctor? By David D. Rutstein SEE ALSO: Family medicine; Medical education; Medicine; Physicians (General practice); Specialties and specialists; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
151-152	Article A doctor prescribes for his profession By Lindsay E. Beaton SEE ALSO: Medical ethics; Physician and patient PDF IMAGES
152	Article The pretender By Shirley Jo Bennett SEE ALSO: Physicians' spouses; Residents (Medicine) PDF IMAGES
153-157	Article Medical research: Choked by dollars By John M. Russell SEE ALSO: Medical research personnel; Medicine; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
158-165	Article Tomorrow's hospitals By Martin Cherkasky and Maya Pines SEE ALSO: Administration; Hospitals; Nurses; Psychiatric hospitals; Supply and demand; Teaching hospitals PDF IMAGES
165	Article Fee-for-service professors By James Howard Means SEE ALSO: Medical care; Medical education PDF IMAGES
166-168	Article Beyond traditional medicine By René J. (René Jules) Dubos SEE ALSO: Environmental health; Social policy PDF IMAGES