Harper's Magazine: March 1961

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March 1961

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Walter C. Whitlock SEE ALSO: Multiple-choice examinations PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On My other books, from January 1961: Letter By Upton Sinclair On Kentucky's quiet revolution, from January 1961: Letter By Wm. B. Smith On The people-machine, from January 1961: Letter By Chuck Crawford On A sigh for cybernetics, from January 1961: Letter By Margene Betts On The pressures against air safety, from January 1961: Letter By Charles M. Larcomb Letter By Jr. and J.B. Hartranft Letter By E.R. Quesada Letter By Ed Modes On The baffled young men of Japan, from January 1961: Letter By Yoshiyuki Iwamoto Letter By Larry D. Spense On Ten Christmas cards, and that's all, from December 1960: Letter By S.E. Beiter On The easy chair, from January 1961: Letter By Jonathan Wallman Letter By John Boland Letter By Robert Rechter On Down-Easterner off to Europe, from January 1961: Letter By Russell Lynes PDF IMAGES
14-24	The easy chair/Article “Anti-Americanism” in Canada By Hugh MacLennan SEE ALSO: Anti-Americanism; Corporations, American; Foreign economic relations PDF IMAGES The easy chair/Collection The easy chair PDF IMAGES
24	The easy chair/Article Editor's note By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Investments, American PDF IMAGES
25-28	Advertising Supplement Tumult in transportation By Welby M. Frantz SEE ALSO: Freight; Piggyback transportation; Transportation; Trucking PDF IMAGES
29-35	After hours/Article Musical coals to Newcastle By Corinne Watson and Jack M. Watson SEE ALSO: Instruction and study; Opera; Production and direction; Singers; Singing PDF IMAGES
30	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
37-44	Article The tyranny of multiple-choice tests By Banesh Hoffmann SEE ALSO: Multiple-choice examinations; Validity PDF IMAGES
39	Poem March By James Arlington Wright PDF IMAGES
44	Article Amid the alien corn SEE ALSO: Dubbing of motion pictures; Iowa; Motion pictures, British PDF IMAGES
45-48	Article No legs no jokes no chance By Helene Hanff SEE ALSO: Career as theatrical manager; Dramatic criticism; Langner, Lawrence; Oklahoma! (Play); Hammerstein, Oscar; Press agents; Rodgers, Richard; Theatrical managers; Helburn, Theresa PDF IMAGES
48	Article Mr. Upton-Sinclair-Lewis By Upton Sinclair SEE ALSO: Biography—Humor; Humor; Mistaken identity; Lewis, Sinclair; Upton Sinclair PDF IMAGES
49-55	Article Writing the “Inside” books: Part I By John Gunther SEE ALSO: Biography; Inside Asia (Book); Inside Europe (Book); Inside U.S.A. (Book); Gunther, John; Journalists; Portraits; Reportage literature, American; Travel writing PDF IMAGES
56-57	Article The Timken edition of Lenin By David Spitz SEE ALSO: Advertising, Newspaper; Advertising, Political; Columbus; Deceptive advertising; 1951-; Portraits; Quotations; Lenin, Vladimir Ily`ich PDF IMAGES
58-63	Article How to talk to people, if any, on other planets By Ralph Eugene Lapp SEE ALSO: Interstellar communication; Rockets (Aeronautics); Space and time PDF IMAGES
64-68	Article The golden twig: Black, white, and pango peach magic in advertising By Howard Luck Gossage SEE ALSO: Magical thinking; Frazer, James George, Sir; The golden bough (Book) PDF IMAGES
73-78	Fiction The castle at Arundel: A story By Arthur Ray Heiserman PDF IMAGES
79-85	Article Italy's new caesar By Robert Neville SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Career in Italian petroleum industry; Mattei, Enrico; 1945-1976; Portraits PDF IMAGES
86-90	Article My dear Irish doctors By Harriet Hughes Crowley SEE ALSO: Diagnosis; Medical policy; Physician and patient PDF IMAGES
90	Fiction Consumers' research By Tobias George Smollett PDF IMAGES
91	Poem My countryman Marco Polo By John Ciardi PDF IMAGES
94-102	Article California's $2 billion thirst By Sydney Kossen SEE ALSO: Career as California governor; Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald); Flood control; Irrigation farming PDF IMAGES
104	Advertising Supplement Television: A statement by Senator William Proxmire before U.S. Senate, Jan. 9, 1961 By William Proxmire SEE ALSO: Campaign debates; Television broadcasting policy; Television in politics PDF IMAGES
105-111	Public and personal/Article Three scouts heading West By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Career as U.S. senator; Smathers, George A.(George Armistead); Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio); Kennedy, John F.; Leadership; Mansfield, Mike; 1961-1963; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
112-120	The new books/Review Society and life, here and abroad By Alan Pryce-Jones SEE ALSO: Schwarz-Bart, André; Shaw, Bernard; Amory, Cleveland; Mauriac, François; Norman, Frank; Hopkins, Gerard; Cooper, Diana, Lady; Dickson, Lovat; Mémoires intérieurs (Book); Blake, Peter; Tompkins, Peter; Scenes from life (Book); Stand on me (Book); Becker, Stephen D.; The ante-room (Book); The last of the just (Book); The master builders (Book); To a young actress (Book); Trumpets from the steep (Book); Who killed society? (Book); Cooper, William PDF IMAGES
120-124	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A burnt-out case (Book); China court (Book); Moll, Elick; Greene, Graham; Gordon, Katherine K.; Gunther, Max; Memoir of spring (Book); De Vries, Peter; Gordon, Richard E.; Stern, Richard Martin; Godden, Rumer; The split-level trap (Book); These unlucky deeds (Book); Through fields of clover (Book) PDF IMAGES
124	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A fresh herb platter (Book); A journey to Matecumbe (Book); A month of Sundays (Book); Seton, Anya; April morning (Book); Waugh, Auberon; Menen, Aubrey; Burman, Ben Lucien; Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy); Citizen of New Salem (Book); Devil water (Book); Hogner, Dorothy Childs; O'Connor, Edwin; Greenhouse gardening as a hobby (Book); Fast, Howard; Stone, Irving; Crockett, James Underwood; Steinbeck, John; Kronenberger, Louis; Kantor, MacKinlay; Horgan, Paul; Taylor, Robert Lewis; Biles, Roy E. (Roy Edwin); Science and government (Book); Spirit Lake (Book); The agony and the ecstasy (Book); The complete book of garden magic (Book); The edge of sadness (Book); The foxglove saga (Book); The owl hoots twice at Catfish Bend (Book); The winter of our discontent (Book); The wisdom tooth (Book) PDF IMAGES
125-130	Music in the round/Review Coloratura soprano By Discus SEE ALSO: Paisiello, Giovanni; Verdi, Giuseppe; Sutherland, Joan; Performances; Fasano, Renato; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus; The barber of Seville (Sound recording); Serafin, Tulio; Verdi: La traviata (Sound recording); Angeles, Victoria de los PDF IMAGES
130	Jazz notes/Review MJQ By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; Modern Jazz Quartet; 1961-1970 PDF IMAGES