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June 1961

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Burt Goldblatt SEE ALSO: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
6-8	Letters/Department Letters On Trial by combat in American courts, from April 1961: Letter By John B. Waite Letter By David Alman Letter By John T. McNaughton Letter By “The Editors” Letter By Walter L. Arnstein On Can we bring back the old-fashioned bank robber?, from April 1961: Letter By Eric Moon On Adenauer and McCloy, from April 1961: Letter By Everett Hoffman On The good slum schools, from April 1961: Letter By Mollie R. De Witt Letter By Joseph B. Orleans Letter By Martin Mayer Letter By Margaret Halsey On Africans beat on our college doors, from April 1961: Letter By John R. Hasler On The chicken explosion, from April 1961: Letter By Charles A. Kinney On The sure 'nuff truth about the Civil War, from April 1961: Letter By William Sloan PDF IMAGES
12-21	The easy chair/Article Don't write your congressman, unless . . . By Ellen Davis SEE ALSO: Political letter writing PDF IMAGES
22-27	After hours/Article Boris for the millions By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Film and video adaptations; Tozzi, Giorgio; Lane, Gloria; Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich; NBC Symphony; Opera; Operas; Performances; Adler, Peter Herman; Production and direction; Television adaptations PDF IMAGES
27	After hours/Poem So I will punch you one-o By David Thompson Watson McCord PDF IMAGES
29-40	Article The coming bust in the real estate boom By Daniel M. Friedenberg SEE ALSO: Building laws; Building leases; Career in New York real estate investment; Depreciation allowances; Real estate development; Real estate investment; Zeckendorf, William PDF IMAGES
40	Poem You're By Sylvia Plath PDF IMAGES
41-46	Article The American Negro's new comedy act By Louis E. Lomax SEE ALSO: African American wit and humor; Race discrimination PDF IMAGES
47-51	Article A small atomic accident By Ralph Eugene Lapp SEE ALSO: Idaho; Nuclear power plants; Nuclear reactor accidents; Radioactivity; Safety measures PDF IMAGES
52-53	Article A Boston girl By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: Errors of usage; Learning, Psychology of PDF IMAGES
54-58	Article Nasser's other voice By William S. Ellis SEE ALSO: Said, Ahmed; Career as United Arab Republic president; Career in radio broadcasting; East and West; Egypt; Nasser, Gamal Abdel; The Middle East; 1945-1979; 1952-; Portraits; Radio in propaganda PDF IMAGES
59-65	Article Riesman and his readers By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Authors and readers; Riesman, David; Ethnopsychology; The lonely crowd (Book) PDF IMAGES
66-76	Collection Manuel in the Thieves' Market PDF IMAGES Article Manuel in the Thieves' Market By Oscar Lewis SEE ALSO: Mexico City; Mexico City (Mexico); Poor PDF IMAGES
67-76	Article Manuel's story By Oscar Lewis and Manuel Sanchez SEE ALSO: Mexico City; Mexico City (Mexico); Peddlers and peddling; Secondhand trade PDF IMAGES
77-82	Fiction A matter of luck: A story By Maurice Druon PDF IMAGES
83-85	Article William Carlos Williams By Van Wyck Brooks SEE ALSO: Biography; Williams, William Carlos PDF IMAGES
85	Collection Two new poems By William Carlos Williams PDF IMAGES Poem Song By William Carlos Williams PDF IMAGES Poem The children By William Carlos Williams PDF IMAGES
86-89	Public and personal/Article Private talks with the ex-Ivy League By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Business and politics; Businessmen; 1961-1971; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
90-96	The new books/Review The insulted and injured By Elizabeth Hardwick SEE ALSO: Dolci, Danilo; Abrahamsen, David; Wolfe, Donald M.; Allport, Gordon W. (Gordon Willard); Husbands and wives, the dynamics of married living (Book); Cutler, John Henry; Horwitz, Julius; Kennedy, Ludovic Henry Coverley; Metropolis 1985 (Book); Outlaws (Book); Personality and social encounter (Book); Vernon, Raymond; Blood, Robert O.; Sex in man and woman (Book); Ten Rillington Place (Book); The inhabitants (Book); The psychology of crime (Book); Reik, Theodor; What about women (Book) PDF IMAGES
97-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Asbell, Bernard; Overstreet, Bonaro W. (Bonaro Wilkinson); Don't let them scare you: the life and times of Elmer Davis (Book); Dragon in the Kremlin (Book); Loomis, Edward; Post, Edwin; Morley, F.V. (Frank Vigor); Gennari, Genevieve; Jorré, Georges; Overstreet, H.A. (Harry Allen); Norton, Howard Melvin; It takes all kinds (Book); Williams, Joan; Krutch, Joseph Wood; Wibberley, Leonard; Kalb, Marvin L.; Only in Russia (Book); Littell, Robert; Burlingame, Roger; Russians as people (Book); The forgotten peninsula: a naturalist in Baja California (Book); The great North Road: a journey in history (Book); The hunter deep in summer (Book); The morning and the evening (Book); The other woman I am (Book); The Soviet Union: the land and its people (Book); The war called peace: Khrushchev's communism (Book); Truly Emily Post (Book); When F.D.R. died (Book); Miller, Wright Watts; Yesterday's land: a Baja California adventure (Book) PDF IMAGES
101	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: O'Connor, Edwin; Kennan, George Frost; Waller, George; Schmitt, Gladys; Steinbeck, John; Kidnap: the story of the Lindbergh case (Book); Spillane, Mickey; Rembrandt (Book); Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin (Book); The deep (Book); The edge of sadness (Book); The making of the President 1960 (Book); The winter of our discontent (Book); White, Theodore Harold PDF IMAGES
102-103	Music in the round/Review Three great conductors By Discus SEE ALSO: Toscanini, Arturo; Brahms: Symphonies; Tragic overture; Academic festival overture (Sound recording); Walter, Bruno; Cleveland Orchestra; Columbia Symphony; Schubert, Franz; Handel, George Frideric; Szell, George; Traubel, Helen; Hollweg, Ilse; Brahms, Johannes; Melchior, Lauritz; Fleisher, Leon; Love in Bath (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Klemperer, Otto; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra; Wagner, Richard; Schumann, Robert; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Schubert: Unfinished symphony; Symphony #5 in B flat; Symphony #9 in C (Sound recording); Schumann: Symphonies; Manfred overture; Piano concerto (Sound recording); Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Wagner: Die Walküre (excerpts); Götterdämmerung (Daybreak; Siegfried's Rhine journey; Duet) (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
104	Jazz notes/Review Byrd, D.C. By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Blues for night people (Sound recording); Byrd, Charlie; Four suites by Lodovico Roncalli (Sound recording); Performances; Roncalli, Ludovico, conte PDF IMAGES