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November 1960

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Charles Goslin SEE ALSO: Fingerprints PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On The year St. Louis enchanted the world (the second of two articles), from August 1960: Letter By Norton Wolf On Heroic Israel today, from September 1960: Letter By Jacob Chinitz Letter By Odeda Rosenthal On Afternoon with the space people, from September 1960: Letter By Lee R. Munsick On A proposition for women, from September 1960: Letter By Marion Rosser Judson Letter By Harriette Freeman Letter By Katharine D. Kane Letter By Jr. and Francis D. Haines Letter By Camille Lawrence Letter By Emily Exner Chi Letter By Muriel D. Lezak Letter By Norma B. Kahn Letter By Daniel C. Reuter Letter By Jr. and Mrs. Vincent E. Foster Letter By Margaret Schamberg On How good is TV at its best? More than plenty of drama (the second of two articles), from September 1960: Letter By Max Wilk On Not really a sin, from September 1960: Letter By F.B. Whitman Letter By V.H. Pomper Letter By Mark Starr Letter By Thomas L. Brown PDF IMAGES
14-20	The editor's easy chair/Article Please don't bite the politicians By John Fischer SEE ALSO: 1960; Political ethics; Politics, Practical PDF IMAGES
22-24	After hours/Article I was a flack for the wild blue yonder By Frederick Taylor SEE ALSO: Awards; Characters—Steve Canyon; Caniff, Milton Arthur; Public Relations; United States. Air Force PDF IMAGES
24-31	After hours/Article Ten million statues By Robert Weeks SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Church and education; Decoration; Jesus Christ; Missions; Walls PDF IMAGES
30	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
33-39	Article Why the crime syndicate can't be touched By Gerald L. Goettel SEE ALSO: Criminal justice, Administration of; Mafia trials; Organized crime investigation; Trade-unions; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation PDF IMAGES
39	Poem The poem By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
40-44	Article Texas puts its brand on Washington By Karl Ernest Meyer SEE ALSO: Buildings, structures, etc.; Career as U.S. senator; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); Office buildings; Public architecture; Rayburn, Sam; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) PDF IMAGES
45-50	Article The ignored lesson of Anne Frank By Bruno Bettelheim SEE ALSO: Amsterdam; Frank, Anne; Concentration camps; Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Netherlands; The diary of Anne Frank (Book) PDF IMAGES
48	Poem The lost self By Peter Robert Edwin Viereck PDF IMAGES
53-58	Fiction Potawatomi's daughter: A story By Johannes V. (Johannes Vilhelm) Jensen PDF IMAGES
59-63	Article Music in the 1950's: A decade reviewed By Virgil Thomson SEE ALSO: Chance composition; Music; Musique concrète; Nineteen fifties; Portraits; Production and direction; Twelve-tone system; Thomson, Virgil PDF IMAGES Collection Two appraisals of the arts in America PDF IMAGES
63-69	Article State of the theatre: A conversation with Arthur Miller By Henry Brandon SEE ALSO: American drama; Miller, Arthur; Drama; Dramatists, American; Interviews; Monroe, Marilyn; Portraits; Technique PDF IMAGES
67	Poem The losers By Philip Levine PDF IMAGES
70-74	Article Those irresistible Hungarians By Simon Bourgin SEE ALSO: Budapest; Budapest (Hungary); Coffeehouses; Hungarian Americans; Hungary; National characteristics, Hungarian PDF IMAGES
75-84	Article The untold story of the UN's Congo army By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Afro-Asian politics; Career as United Nations secretary-general; Civil War, 1960-1965; Hammarskjöld, Dag; Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes; United Nations; Zaire PDF IMAGES
87-96	Article Pornography is not enough By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Censorship; Obscenity (Law); Pornography; Sex in literature PDF IMAGES
98-108	Public and personal/Article The conservative front-runner By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Goldwater, Barry; Career in politics; Conservatism; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
109-120	The new books/Review The problems of the young and some recent novels By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Goodbye to a river (Book); Growing up absurd (Book); Purdy, James; Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour); Graves, John; Know nothing (Book); Life: its dimensions and its bounds (Book); Settle, Mary Lee; Goodman, Paul; MacIver, Robert M. (Robert Morrison); Towers, Robert; Waterhouse, Russell; Lin, Tai-yi; The lilacs overgrow (Book); The necklace of Kali (Book); The nephew (Book); The process of education (Book) PDF IMAGES
123-129	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Allen, Addison; Hayes, Alfred; Woolson, Arthur; Walker, David Harry; Whitehead, Don; Merriam, Eve; Figleaf: the business of being in fashion (Book); Spanier, Ginette; Good-by, my son (Book); Agar, Herbert; It isn't all mink (Book); Journey into crime (Book); Crichton, Kyle; Duras, Marguerite; Moderato cantabile (Book); New England gothic (Book); Hill, Pati; Prosper (Book); Seaver, Richard; The saving remnant: an account of Jewish survival (Book); The temptation of Don Volpi (Book); Total recoil (Book); Two plays (Book); Where the high winds blow (Book); Gibson, William PDF IMAGES
130-136	Music in the round/Review Faust and other indestructibles By Discus SEE ALSO: Ponchielli, Amilcare; Votto, Antonino; Basile, Arturo; Nilsson, Birgit; Rubio, Consuelo; Leinsdorf, Erich; Puccini, Giacomo; Verdi, Giuseppe; Berlioz, Hector; Markevitch, Igor; Il trovatore (Sound recording); Björling, Jussi; La gioconda (Sound recording); La Scala Choir and Orchestra; Lamoureux Orchestra; Price, Leontyne; Callas, Maria; Roux, Michel; Performances; Tebaldi, Renata; Tucker, Richard; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus; Elias, Rosalind; The damnation of Faust (Sound recording); Turandot (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
136	Jazz notes/Review Porgy I By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Gershwin, George; Jazz; 1951-1960; Porgy and Bess (Sound recording); Bennett, Robert Russell PDF IMAGES