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November 1961

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Martin Rosenzweig PDF IMAGES
4-11	Letters/Department Letters On The search for William E. Hinds, from July 1961: Letter By John Fischer On Vermont, from July 1961: Letter By Ralph E. (Ralph Edward) Flanders On How to play the unemployment-insurance game, from August 1961: Letter By Alfred L. Green Letter By Seth Levine On On both your houses, from September 1961: Letter By Dorothy B. Hansen On Violence in the city streets, from September 1961: Letter By Jr. and Philip Will Letter By James E. Lee Letter By John V. Lindsay Letter By William Reid Letter By Jane Jacobs Letter By Very Rev. Msgr. John J. Egan On The Peace Corps' secret mission, from September 1961: Letter By Meryl Blau Letter By F. Reed Alvord On The invisible aborigine, from September 1961: Letter By Helene Hanff On Why we don't wipe out polio, from September 1961: Letter By Herbert Bauer Letter By Leonard Engel Letter By Harry J. Fallon On Money bait, from September 1961: Letter By Luther H. Hodges Letter By Terry Sanford Letter By Quigg Newton Letter By John H. Sticher PDF IMAGES
12-21	The editor's easy chair/Article A hopeful letter to Fowler Hamilton By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in American economic assistance; Economic assistance, American; Hamilton, Fowler; 1961-1963 PDF IMAGES
21	The editor's easy chair/Article Mr. Hinds discovered By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Authors and readers; Career in philanthropy; Historians; Philanthropists; University of Texas; Hinds, William E. PDF IMAGES
22-25	Advertising Supplement We may be sitting ourselves to death: The human machine needs regular physical activity to function at its very best By Frank R. Neu SEE ALSO: Exercise; Nutritional aspects; Physical fitness PDF IMAGES
26-31	After hours/Article Car for sale By James Anstruther Maxtone Graham SEE ALSO: Scots; Used car trade PDF IMAGES
33-39	Article How to destroy the churches By Edmond Nathaniel Cahn SEE ALSO: Church and state; 1960 PDF IMAGES
39	Poem The daily globe By Howard Nemerov PDF IMAGES
40-42	Article The game of words By Louis Bernard Salomon SEE ALSO: Compound words; Rates; Telegraph PDF IMAGES
43-50	Article The comeback of the State Department By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Career as U.S. secretary of state; Career as U.S. undersecretary of state; Bowles, Chester; Rusk, Dean; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; Officials and employees; Staff; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
50	Poem Rival By Phyllis Rose PDF IMAGES
51-60	Article Howard University: Campus and cause By Milton Viorst SEE ALSO: African American college students; African American lawyers; Career as Howard University president; Nabrit, James M. (James Madison); Johnson, Mordecai W. (Mordecai Wyatt) PDF IMAGES
61-67	Article Private eye to industry By Morton M. Hunt SEE ALSO: Business consultants; Career as business consultant; Jaspan, Norman; Private investigators PDF IMAGES
68-72	Fiction In the company of runners: A story By Richard Rogin PDF IMAGES
72-78	Article Henri Cartier-Bresson on the art of photography By Yvonne Baby and Elizabeth Carmichael (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Cartier-Bresson, Henri; Interviews; Photographers; Photography, Artistic PDF IMAGES
79-88	Article India experiments with sterilization By Rowland Evans SEE ALSO: Birth control; Population; Sterilization (Birth control) PDF IMAGES
86	Article Oh, the shame of it! By J.A. Thome SEE ALSO: College teachers; Faculty; Oberlin; Oberlin College; Resignation PDF IMAGES
89-93	Article The last summer By David Armine Howarth SEE ALSO: Composers; Death and burial; Delius, Frederick; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Delius, Jelka Rosen; Recording and reproducing; Sound PDF IMAGES
93	Poem To a friend whose work has come to triumph By Anne Sexton PDF IMAGES
94-97	Article Up to our necks in soft, white suds By Maya Pines SEE ALSO: Biodegradation PDF IMAGES
98-108	Public and personal/Article The new irresponsibles By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Conservatism; Liberalism; Political ethics; Right and left (Political science); Right-wing extremists PDF IMAGES
109-122	The new books/Review Fiction, non-fiction, and pseudo-fiction By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A new life (Book); A passion in Rome (Book); Adrift in Soho (Book); Kazin, Alfred; Wilson, Angus; Conrad, Barnaby; Malamud, Bernard; Lowery, Bruce; Wilson, Colin; Dangerfield (Book); Burdick, Eugene; False entry (Book); Calisher, Hortense; Williams, John Alfred; Love in question (Book); Night song (Book); Nicolson, Robert; Packard, Rosalie; Scarred (Book); The blue of Capricorn (Book); The old men at the zoo (Book); The whisperers (Book) PDF IMAGES
124-127	Review The master journalist of American fiction: A review of Mark Schorer's biography of Sinclair Lewis By Louis Auchincloss SEE ALSO: Biography; Schorer, Mark; Novelists, American; Lewis, Sinclair; Sinclair Lewis: an American life (Book) PDF IMAGES
128-132	Music in the round/Review The illusions of opera By Discus SEE ALSO: Moffo, Anna; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Bartoletti, Bruno; Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne (Sound recording); Gava, Carlo; Previtali, Fernando; D'Angelo, Gianna; Rossini, Gioacchino; Tadeo, Giorgio; Verdi, Giuseppe; Canteloube, Joseph; Grey, Madeleine; Davrath, Netania; Monti, Nicola; Performances; La Roche, Pierre de; Capecchi, Renato; Tucker, Richard; Merrill, Robert; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus; Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Sound recording); Verdi: La traviata (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
133	Jazz notes/Review Testament By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Broonzy, Big Bill; Jazz; 1961-1970; Performances PDF IMAGES