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August 1961

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Charles Goslin and Burt Glinn (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing); Portraits PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On The coming bust in the real estate boom, from June 1961: Letter By Louis R. Lurie Letter By Jan Reiner Letter By Norman Tishman Letter By Daniel M. Friedenberg On The American Negro's new comedy act, from June 1961: Letter By Barbara Keith Gelehrter On A small atomic accident, from June 1961: Letter By Andrew J. Biemiller Letter By Ralph E. Lapp On A Boston girl, from June 1961: Letter By Allan F. Hubbell Letter By Charles Neider On Riesman and his readers, from June 1961: Letter By Eric Larrabee On Don't write your congressman, unless . . ., from June 1961: Letter By Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio) Humphrey Letter By Helen S. Eaton Letter By Mrs. Robert J. Phillips PDF IMAGES
11-15	The editor's easy chair/Article Yugoslavia's flirtation with free enterprise (part II) By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Career as Yugoslavia president; Free enterprise; Tito, Josip Broz; 1945-1992; Socialism; Yugoslavia PDF IMAGES
12	Article “Vile concoction” By John Fischer SEE ALSO: 1917-1970; Special numbers; “The mood of the Russian people” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES
16-18	After hours/Article Culture-struck Canada By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Art and state PDF IMAGES
21-24	Article America under pressure: A political commentary By Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson SEE ALSO: Cold War; 1961-1963; 1961-1971 PDF IMAGES
25-28	Article How not to build a ball park By Allan Temko SEE ALSO: San Francisco; San Francisco (Calif.); San Francisco Giants (Baseball team); Sports facilities; Stadiums PDF IMAGES
29-33	Article Your unknown heirs: How patronage politicians may take a big bite out of your estate By Murray Teigh Bloom SEE ALSO: Executors and administrators; Fees; Inheritance and succession; Law reform; Patronage, Political; Probate law and practice PDF IMAGES
34-40	Article Robinson Crusoe in Florida By Jan De Hartog SEE ALSO: Big Cypress Swamp (Fla.); Everglades; Everglades (Fla.) PDF IMAGES
41-48	Article McNamara and his enemies By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. secretary of defense; Civil-military relations; Management; Military Industrial Complex; Military policy; 1961-1963; McNamara, Robert S.; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
49-53	Article How to play the unemployment-insurance game By Seth Levine SEE ALSO: Employment agencies; Industrial relations; Insurance, Unemployment PDF IMAGES
54-62	Fiction The man who doubted: A story By Jack Cope PDF IMAGES
58	Poem A psychiatrist's song By Hilary Corke PDF IMAGES
63-70	Article Our national talent for offending people By D.H. (Don H.) Radler SEE ALSO: American periodicals; Anti-Americanism; Banana trade; Circulation; Corporations, American; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Economic assistance, American; Honduras PDF IMAGES
71-73	Article A matter of motive By John D. Rosenberg SEE ALSO: College teachers; Income tax; Income tax deductions for expenses; United States. Internal Revenue Service PDF IMAGES
74-82	Article Art and society By Kenneth Clark SEE ALSO: Art and science; Art and society; Art, Modern PDF IMAGES
77	Poem Voyage By Samuel Menashe PDF IMAGES
83-85	Public and personal/Article The good old summertime By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Cold War; Health aspects; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; Stress management; Vacations PDF IMAGES
86-91	The new books/Review Some poets of the year and their language of transformation By Stanley Kunitz SEE ALSO: MacLeish, Archibald; Olson, Charles; Chronique (Book); Collected poems 1930-1960 (Book); Collected poems (Book); Fitts, Dudley; Keeley, Edmund; Sewell, Elizabeth; Figaro's marriage (Book); Seferis, George; Peyre, Henri; Nemerov, Howard; Barzun, Jacques; Racine, Jean; Nims, John Frederick; New and selected poems (Book); Dehn, Paul; Phaedra (Book); Sherrard, Philip; Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de; Poems (Book); Poetry and experience (Book); Quake, quake, quake, a leaden treasury of English verse (Book); Dalven, Rae; Jarrell, Randall; Warner, Rex; Eberhart, Richard; Fitzgerald, Robert; Graves, Robert; Lowell, Robert; Saint John Perse; Betjeman, John, Sir; Six poets of modern Greece (Book); Burnshaw, Stanley; Summoned by bells (Book); The complete poems of Cavafy (Book); The distances (Book); The odyssey (Book); The Orphic voice: poetry and natural history (Book); The poem itself (Book); The woman at the Washington Zoo (Book) PDF IMAGES
91-93	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Barbarian's country (Book); Best detective stories of the year (Book); Halliday, Brett; Detective and mystery stories; Radin, Edward D.; Sainsbury, Geoffrey; Plimpton, George; Webb, Jack; Barzun, Jacques; Hougran, Jean; Listen, the red-eyed vireo (Book); Lizzie Borden: the untold story (Book); White, Milton; One for my dame (Book); Out of my league (Book); Macdonald, Ross; The delights of detection (Book); The Wycherly woman (Book) PDF IMAGES
93	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Color of darkness (Book); Purdy, James; Roehler, Klaus; Dagerman, Stig; The dignity of night (Book); The games of night (Book) PDF IMAGES
94-95	Music in the round/Review Composers conducting By Discus SEE ALSO: Columbia Symphony; Poulenc, Francis; Prêtre, Georges; Stravinsky, Igor; Duruflé, Maurice; Performances; Poulenc: Gloria; Concerto for organ, strings, and timpani (Sound recording); Carteri, Rosanna; Stravinsky: Petrouchka; Le sacre du printemps (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Chopin: Piano concerto in E minor (Sound recording); Baldwin, Danton; Fauré: La bonne Chanson; Poème d'un jour; Eight songs (Sound recording); Chopin, Frédéric; Liszt, Franz; Souzay, Gérard; Fauré, Gabriel; Davis, Ivan; Liszt: Piano music (Sound recording); Pollini, Maurizio; Kletzki, Paul; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra PDF IMAGES
95	Jazz notes/Review For laffs By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Leighton, Bernie; Severinsen, Doc; Lamond, Don; Jazz; Ramin, Jordan; Morris Grants presents J.U.N,K. (Sound recording); 1961-1970; Performances; Altert, Trigger PDF IMAGES