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October 1962

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson PDF IMAGES
4-12	Letters/Department Letters On Car snobs, commuters, and chaos, from July 1962: Letter By George B. Bailey On The trouble with textbooks, from July 1962: Letter By John G. Powers Letter By Charles A. White Letter By Robert Shafer Letter By Martin Mayer On Not quite posthumous letter to my daughter, from August 1962: Letter By Jr. and Emmett Peter Letter By Peggy Isbell On The trouble with translation, from August 1962: Letter By Ralph E. De Castro Letter By Deborah W. Hobson On The genteel nightmare of Richard Rovere, from August 1962: Letter By Bruce Henstell Letter By Charles N. Somers Letter By Richard A. Lindsey On The sometimes baffling mind of India, from August 1962: Letter By Vijay S. Kothare Letter By Bradford Smith On The priest, from August 1962: Letter By Harold David Sox On What the Negro needs most, from July 1962: Letter By Douglas Scott Letter By David L. Collins Letter By John Fischer Letter By Leona S. Morris Letter By Stafford W. Thompson Letter By Sarah F. Rogers Letter By Richard Kramer Letter By Pauli Murray Letter By Lester Silverstone Letter By Henry Lee Moon Letter By Andrew J. Young On The changes that time brings, from August 1962: Letter By Edward Lahart PDF IMAGES
16-29	The easy chair/Article The Negro as first class citizen: Some comments and rejoinders By John Fischer, Douglas Scott, David L. Collins, Leona S. Morris, Stafford W. Thompson, Sarah F. Rogers, Richard Kramer, Pauli Murray, Lester Silverstone, Henry Lee Moon, and Andrew Young SEE ALSO: African American civic leaders; Civil Rights; Discrimination; Military life; Segregation PDF IMAGES
30-32	After hours/Article Dining west of the Hudson By William North Jayme SEE ALSO: Cookery, American; Middle West; Restaurants; Waitresses PDF IMAGES
33-37	After hours/Article Montages By Jan Holcman SEE ALSO: Editing; Electronic music; Music; Recording and reproducing; Sound; Sound recording industry PDF IMAGES
39-45	Article The race to create life By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Kornberg, Arthur; Biochemistry; Career in biochemistry; DNA replication; Crick, Francis; Genetics; Watson, James D.; Life (Biology) PDF IMAGES
46-48	Article J.D. Salinger's closed circuit By Mary McCarthy SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Franny and Zooey (Book); Salinger, J.D. (Jerome David) PDF IMAGES
49-52	Article Sinus tones with nuts and bolts By Paul Moor SEE ALSO: Knowledge—Musique concrète; Musique concrète; Schaeffer, Pierre PDF IMAGES
51	Poem October song (for Roy Davidson) By Bill Butler PDF IMAGES
52-60	Article The death of Weake By Peter Matthiessen SEE ALSO: Funeral customs and rites; Indigenous peoples; Indonesia; New Guinea; Warfare PDF IMAGES
61-65	Article Ohio's unpredictable voters By John H. Fenton SEE ALSO: Career in Ohio politics; Elections; Lausche, Frank John; Governors; DiSalle, Michael V. (Michael Vincent); 1951-; Political participation; Trade-unions; United States. Congress. Senate; Voting research; Working class PDF IMAGES
66-74	Article The rising leaders of Germany By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Career in German politics; Strauss, Franz Josef; Schröder, Gerhard; German reunification question (1949-1990); Dufhues, Josef Herman; 1945-1990; Political leadership; Political parties; Portraits; Brandt, Willy; Döring, Wolfgang PDF IMAGES
75-78	Article Your friendly finance company and its friends on Capitol Hill By Julius Duscha SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Consumer credit; Disclosure of information; Finance charges; Lobbying; Douglas, Paul Howard PDF IMAGES Collection Your friendly finance company and its friends on Capitol Hill By Julius Duscha PDF IMAGES
78	Article What “truth in lending” would mean By Julius Duscha SEE ALSO: Disclosure of information; Finance charges PDF IMAGES
79	Fiction Peer the traper: Chapter 2 of a story By Garfield Scrog PDF IMAGES
82-89	Article The unreported crisis in the Southern colleges By C. Vann (Comer Vann) Woodward SEE ALSO: Academic freedom; Administration; Civil Rights; Civil rights demonstrations; College teachers; Right-wing extremists; Segregation in higher education PDF IMAGES
90-98	The new books/Review Musclemen and dreamers By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: Big Sur (Book); Wilson, Colin; Blackwood, George D. (George Douglas); Powers, J.F. (James Farl); Kerouac, Jack; Jones, James; Weinberg, Meyer; Morte d'Urban (Book); Levin, Murray Burton; TV in America, the morality of hard cash (Book); The compleat politician, political strategy in Massachusetts (Book); The scientific life (Book); The strength to dream (Book); The thin red line (Book); Berland, Theodore; What a way to go (Book); Morris, Wright PDF IMAGES
100-108	Article Frost, Williams, & company By Stanley Kunitz SEE ALSO: Dugan, Alan; American poetry; In the clearing (Book); Gilbert, Jack; Koch, Kenneth; Pictures from Brueghel and other poems (Book); Poems (Book); Creeley, Robert; Frost, Robert; Thank you and other poems (Book); Views of jeopardy (Book); Williams, William Carlos; With love: poems 1950-60 (Book) PDF IMAGES
110-114	Music in the round/Review Generations of pianists By Discus SEE ALSO: Moiseiwitsch, Benno; Chopin: Nocturnes (Sound recording); Debussy, Claude; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Chopin, Frédéric; Anda, Géza; Novaes, Guiomar; Haydn: Sonata in C. Schumann: Novelettes. Debussy: Suite bergamasque; Images; L'ile joyeuse (Sound recording); Haydn, Joseph; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Mendelssohn: Songs without words (Sound recording); Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich; Lympany, Moura; Mozart: Piano concerto in G (K. 453); Piano concerto in C (K. 467) (Sound recording); Performances; Schumann, Robert; Schumann: Carnaval. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition (Sound recording); Schumann: Fantasy. Beethoven: Sonata in D minor, op. 31, #2 (Sound recording); Richter, Sviatoslav; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ (Sound recording); Boston Symphony; Brahms: Piano concerto #2 (Sound recording); Munch, Charles; Chicago Symphony; Davis, Colin; Morison, Elsie; Reiner, Fritz; Mahler, Gustav; Berlioz, Hector; Brahms, Johannes; Mahler: Symphony #4 (Sound recording); Ravel, Maurice; Performances; Pears, Peter; Ravel: Trio in A minor. Mozart: Trio in E (K. 542) (Sound recording); Schumann, Robert; Schumann: Symphony #1; Manfred overture (Sound recording); Solti, Georg, Sir; St. Anthony Singers; Stahlman, Sylvia; Cliburn, Van; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Menuhin, Yehudi PDF IMAGES
112	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
114	Jazz notes/Review Mingus again By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Mingus, Charles; Jazz; 1961-1970; Performances PDF IMAGES
117-118	Article Foreword By John Fischer PDF IMAGES Collection The American female PDF IMAGES
120-128	Article Growing up female By Bruno Bettelheim SEE ALSO: Sex differences (Psychology); Sexual behavior; Sexual division of labor PDF IMAGES
123	Article The mommie gap By Alicia Patterson SEE ALSO: Child care services; Love, Maternal; Motherhood PDF IMAGES
129-133	Article Speaking for the working-class wife By Patricia Cayo Sexton SEE ALSO: Working class women PDF IMAGES
132	Article Unequal rights SEE ALSO: Equality before the law PDF IMAGES
134-140	Article The decline and fall of fashion By Ann St. Code SEE ALSO: Fashion writing PDF IMAGES
136	Article Hems of yesteryear SEE ALSO: Labouisse, Eve Curie; Interviews PDF IMAGES
141-146	Article Nobody here but us pompadours: A tale of women, politics, and the New Frontier By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president—Humor; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; Sex discrimination against women; Women in politics PDF IMAGES
147-152	Article Second chance: New education for women By Esther Raushenbush SEE ALSO: Education, Higher; Married women PDF IMAGES
149	Article Drop-out problem By Eunice Roberts SEE ALSO: Women college students PDF IMAGES
151	Article The feminine mystique By Millicent C. McIntosh SEE ALSO: Femininity; Vocational guidance for women PDF IMAGES
153	Poem Mother and Jack and the rain By Anne Sexton PDF IMAGES
154-163	Fiction Reena: A story By Paule Marshall PDF IMAGES
164-165	Article How to make friends with women By David G. Yellin SEE ALSO: Dating (Social customs) PDF IMAGES
166-172	Article The young divorcee By Midge Decter SEE ALSO: Divorced mothers; Divorced women; Remarriage PDF IMAGES
172	Poem Renting By William Dickey PDF IMAGES
173-177	Article Honeychile at the barricades By Florence B. Robin SEE ALSO: Atlanta; Atlanta (Ga.); School integration; Social networks; Women civic leaders PDF IMAGES
177	Poem Thread By Florence Trefethen PDF IMAGES
178-180	Article The Swedes do it better By Richard F. Tomasson SEE ALSO: Child care services; Family policy; Sweden; Working mothers PDF IMAGES