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May 1962

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

0*-58	Fiction The late Mr. Shade: A foreword to his last work By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov PDF IMAGES
	Illustration [Cover art] By Arthur Hawkins PDF IMAGES
4-12	Letters/Department Letters On Contemporary art and the plight of its public, from March 1962: Letter By Katherine K. Davis Letter By Irene Lizotte On The plumber, from March 1962: Letter By Jr. and James L. Cook Letter By “The Editors” On The great narcotics muddle, from March 1962: Letter By H.J. Anslinger Letter By Alfred R. Lindesmith Letter By Nathaniel L. Goldstein Letter By Benjamin DeMott On A better way to teach deaf children, from March 1962: Letter By B.B. Burnes Letter By Nathan P. Harris Letter By Leonard M. Elstad Letter By Marjorie H. Kowalsky Letter By Martin L.A. Sternberg Letter By William J. McClure Letter By George T. Pratt Letter By Clarence D. O'Connor Letter By “The Editors” On George Romney, from March 1962: Letter By Fae Weiss Letter By John Fischer On Which friends come first?, from March 1962: Letter By Mabel Leger Letter By Waldemar A. Nielsen PDF IMAGES
13-22	The editor's easy chair/Article Sixty ivory towers forty feet underground By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Aeronautics, Military; Airmen; Guided missile silos; Minuteman (Missile); Montana; United States. Air Force; United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command PDF IMAGES
21	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
23-25	After hours/Article The smile on the face of the Tagus By William Sansom SEE ALSO: Lisbon (Portugal) PDF IMAGES
27-33	Article The Kennedys move in on Dixie By Louis E. Lomax SEE ALSO: African American civic leaders; Career as U.S. attorney general; Career as U.S. president; Civil Rights; The Democratic Party; Kennedy, John F.; 1951-; 1961-1963; Kennedy, Robert F.; Voter registration PDF IMAGES
34-38	Article How to work a guest By Sylvia Wright SEE ALSO: Entertaining; Housewives PDF IMAGES
39-42	Article Sabbaticals for businessmen By Richard B. McAdoo SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Sabbatical leave; Vacations, Employee PDF IMAGES
43-47	Article Love or marriage? By Ernest Van Den Haag SEE ALSO: Sex in marriage PDF IMAGES
48-52	Article Poland's embattled painters By Virgil Burnett SEE ALSO: Communism and art; Journeys—Poland—Warsaw; Poland; Burnett, Virgil; Warsaw; Warsaw (Poland) PDF IMAGES
59-63	Article A cure for political fund-raising By Philip M. Stern SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Corrupt practices; Elections; 1961-1963 PDF IMAGES
64-68	Article Peaceful coexistence with rattlesnakes By Alan Baer Rothenberg SEE ALSO: Catskill Mountains; Catskill Mountains (New York); Control; Rattlesnakes; Vacation homes PDF IMAGES
73-80	Article Will the big magazines kill each other? By Woodrow Wirsig SEE ALSO: Advertising campaigns; Advertising, Magazine; American periodicals; Circulation; Periodicals, Publishing of PDF IMAGES
77	Poem The fisherman's true bait By James Erwin Schevill PDF IMAGES
81-85	Article The new adults By Eleanor Foa Dienstag SEE ALSO: Hungary; Influence; Nineteen fifties; Revolution, 1956; Young adults PDF IMAGES
86-91	Public and personal/Article What makes Johnny (Cooper) walk? By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Cooper, John Sherman; 1961-1963; Political leadership; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
91	Article Memo from Lincoln By Abraham Lincoln SEE ALSO: American Party; Equality; Prejudices PDF IMAGES
92-98	The new books/Review Theatre: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and some others By Elizabeth Hardwick SEE ALSO: Lewis, Allan; American drama; Gelb, Arthur; Gelb, Barbara; Alexander, Doris; Williams, Emlyn; George (Book); Fagin, Nathan Bryllion; O'Neill and his plays (Book); O'Neill (Book); Cargill, Oscar; Falk, Signi; Tennessee Williams (Book); The contemporary theatre (Book); The tempering of Eugene O'Neill (Book); Fisher, William J. PDF IMAGES
98-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A radical America (Book); Turnbull, Andrew; Bridge, Ann; Windham, Donald; Eleven kinds of loneliness (Book); Swados, Harvey; West, Jessamyn; My father's house (Book); Yates, Richard; Scott Fitzgerald (Book); Smith, Shelley; Eclov, Shirley; The ballad of the running man (Book); The committee and its critics (Book); The Quaker reader (Book); The tightening string (Book); The warm country (Book); Buckley, William F. (William Frank) PDF IMAGES
102-104	Music in the round/Review For the sophisticated listener By Discus SEE ALSO: Weber, Carl Maria von; Ives, Charles; Cherubini: Requiem in C minor (Sound recording); Davis, Colin; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; List, Eugene; Schubert, Franz; Pappastavrou, George; De Peyer, Gervase; Homage to Percy Grainger (Sound recording); Ives: Concord sonata (Sound recording); London Symphony; Maazel, Lorin; Spohr, Louis; Cherubini, Luigi; Ravel, Maurice; Grainger, Percy; Performances; Frijsh, Povla; Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortilèges (Sound recording); Wagner, Roger; Roger Wagner Chorale; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Schubert: German dances (Sound recording); Gordon, Stewart; Angeles, Victoria de los; Weber: Clarinet concerto #2. Spohr: Clarinet concerto #1 (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Biggs, E. Power (Edward Power); Hindemith: Three organ sonatas (Sound recording); Hindemith, Paul; Performances; Oberlin, Russell; Menuhin, Yehudi PDF IMAGES
104	Jazz notes/Review Epigoni By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; 1961-1970; Performances; Fountain, Pete PDF IMAGES