Harper's Magazine: January 1962

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January 1962

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Arthur Hawkins PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On My escape from the CIA, from October 1961: Letter By Ruth Buehler On How to destroy the churches, from November 1961: Letter By Louis L. Jaffe Letter By Edmond Cahn Letter By Abraham J. Karp Letter By Clark N. Ross On Howard University, from November 1961: Letter By Marvin Wachman On Private eye to industry, from November 1961: Letter By Patrick S.M. Mitton On Henri Cartier-Bresson on the art of photography, from November 1961: Letter By Howard Hayes On A hopeful letter to Fowler Hamilton, from November 1961: Letter By Nuri Eren Letter By Antonio de la Carrera Letter By Lois Harlow On The new irresponsibles, from November 1961: Letter By Fay Gaul Letter By Marianne King PDF IMAGES
10-15	The easy chair/Article A report from an academic utopia By McGeorge Bundy SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Education, Higher; Forecasting; Higher education and state; Teaching, Departmental system of PDF IMAGES
14	The easy chair/Article Investment for the atomic era SEE ALSO: Fallout shelters; House buying; Radioactive fallout PDF IMAGES
21-25	After hours/Article “The treatment” in Grand Rapids By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Grand Rapids; Grand Rapids (Mich.) PDF IMAGES
27-34	Article England wakes up By Joseph C. (Joseph Close) Harsch SEE ALSO: Antinuclear movement; Career as British Labour Party leader; European Economic Community; Gaitskell, Hugh; Labour Party (Great Britain); 1945-1964; North Atlantic Treaty Organization PDF IMAGES
30	Poem Moscow transfer (all out with the fallout) By Felicia Lamport PDF IMAGES
35-41	Article The new gambling king and the social scientists By Keith Monroe SEE ALSO: Career as casino owner; Gamblers; Gambling; Nevada; Tahoe, Lake; Harrah, William PDF IMAGES
42-48	Article The future of the Hearst empire By Albert Bermel SEE ALSO: Career in publishing; Hearst, William Randolph, Jr.; Newspaper publishing; Periodicals, Publishing of; Hearst, William Randolph PDF IMAGES
49-55	Article Portrait of a genius as a young chess master By Ralph Ginzburg SEE ALSO: Fischer, Bobby; Career as chess master; Chess; Chess players; Portraits; Tournaments PDF IMAGES
56-58	Article Weathermaking: A dream that may come true By William Charles Vergara SEE ALSO: Australia; Career in rain-making; Bowen, E.G.; Krick, Irving; Meteorology; Rain-making; Schaefer, Vincent J.; Weather control PDF IMAGES
60-65	Fiction The hostage: A story By May Dikeman PDF IMAGES
66-74	Article In search of a character: A Congo journal By Graham Greene SEE ALSO: A burnt-out case (Book); Diaries; English fiction; Greene, Graham; Journeys—Zaire; Lepers; Portraits; Zaire PDF IMAGES
69	Notice Coming next month in Harper's PDF IMAGES
71	Poem Les saints nouveaux By John Updike PDF IMAGES
75-77	Article Prescriptions anonymous By Harold Jerome Harris SEE ALSO: Complications; Drugs; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medication abuse; Medicine; Physician and patient; Prescribing; Prescription writing PDF IMAGES
77	Poem Change of life By Thomas B. (Thomas Bacon) Whitbread PDF IMAGES
78-83	Article Louisiana's Passman: The scourge of foreign aid By Rowland Evans SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. representative; Economic assistance, American; Leadership; 1961-1963; Passman, Otto Ernest; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
88-90	Public and personal/Article Mr. Ribicoff of Welfare Street By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Ribicoff, Abraham; Career as secretary of health, education, and welfare; 1961-1963; Officials and employees; Politics, Practical; Public welfare; United States. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare PDF IMAGES
91-96	The new books/Review Manner and matter in non-fiction By Elizabeth Hardwick SEE ALSO: Cavalier and Yankee: the old South and American national character (Book); Lévi-Strauss, Claude; Baldwin, James; Jacobs, Jane; Russell, John; McCarthy, Mary; Nobody knows my name (Book); On the contrary: articles of belief, 1946-1961 (Book); The death and life of great American cities (Book); Tristes tropiques (Book); Taylor, William Robert PDF IMAGES
94	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
96-98	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Astoria (Book); Hall, Ben M.; Shain, Charles E.; Alexander, Cris; Ross, Danforth; Daughter of silence (Book); Edith Wharton (Book); F. Scott Fitzgerald (Book); Russell, Franklin; Green Mountain treasury, a “Vermont life” sampler (Book); Pearson, Haydn S.; Collins, Henry Hill; Herman Melville (Book); Howard, Leon; Little me: the intimate memoirs of that great star of stage, screen, and television, Belle Poitrine (Book); Auchincloss, Louis; Lewis, Meriwether; West, Morris L.; Hoyt, Murray; New England flavor: memories of a country boyhood (Book); Tolman, Newton F.; North of Monadnock (Book); Dennis, Patrick; Boulle, Pierre; Hill, Ralph Nading; Warren, Robert Penn; Birmingham, Stephen; Greene, Stephen; The American short story (Book); The American year (Book); The best remaining seats: the story of the Golden Age of the movie palace (Book); The executioner (Book); The Lewis and Clark expedition (Book); The towers of love (Book); Hard, Walter R.; Irving, Washington; Watchers at the pond (Book); Wilderness (Book) PDF IMAGES
98	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Dewlen, Al; Baker, Carlos; Macaulay, Rose, Dame; Behan, Dominic; Ernest Hemingway, a life story (Book); Dürrenmatt, Friedrich; Hemingway, Leicester; Letters to a friend 1950-1952 (Book); Renault, Mary; Spark, Muriel; My brother, Ernest Hemingway (Book); Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren; Ruark, Robert Chester; Tell Dublin I miss her (Book); The bull from the sea (Book); The fox in the attic (Book); The prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Book); The quarry (Book); Twilight of honor (Book); Uhuru (Book) PDF IMAGES
99-101	Music in the round/Review A great time at the piano By Discus SEE ALSO: Chasins, Abram; Rubinstein, Artur; Bamberg Symphony; Brahms: Glenn Gould (Sound recording); Chopin: Abram Chasins (Sound recording); Chopin: Cliburn (Sound recording); Chopin: Fou Ts'ong (Sound recording); Chopin: Guiomar Novaes (Sound recording); Chopin: Leonard Pennario (Sound recording); Chopin: Rubinstein (Sound recording); Lipatti, Dinu; Fauré: Grant Johannesen (Sound recording); Chopin, Frédéric; Liszt, Franz; Schubert, Franz; Fauré, Gabriel; Gould, Glenn; Johannesen, Grant; Novaes, Guiomar; Brahms, Johannes; Perlea, Jonel; Pennario, Leonard; Liszt: Vladimir Horowitz (Sound recording); Mozart: Dinu Lipatti (Sound recording); Performances; Schubert: Emil Gilels (Sound recording); Fou, Ts`ong; Cliburn, Van; Horowitz, Vladimir; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Linder, Albert; Boston Symphony; Munch, Charles; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Mendelssohn: Scotch symphony; Scherzo from octet (Sound recording); Mozart: Four horn concertos (Sound recording); Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
101	Jazz notes/Review Bill/William By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; 1961-1970; Performances; Smith, William Overton PDF IMAGES