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March 1963

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson SEE ALSO: Exploration; Moon PDF IMAGES
6-14	Letters/Department Letters On A Baptist intellectual's view of Catholicism, from December 1962: Letter By Paul Blanshard On Annapolis, from January 1963: Letter By John O'Neal Letter By Gordon Edwards Letter By James C. Abbott Letter By Gilbert A. Crandall Letter By Malcolm M. Willey Letter By James H. Ward On Lucky American women (the view from Tokyo), from January 1963: Letter By Philip Glaser Letter By Mrs. Sam Switzer On The man to see in California, from January 1963: Letter By John L. Houk Letter By Ray L Dodds On Welcome to “the system”, from January 1963: Letter By Louis A. Schuker On Letters, from February 1963: Letter By Lester Markel Letter By Edward W. Barrett On The first real chance for disarmament, from January 1963: Letter By H.P. Hanneken Letter By Christian Bay Letter By Donald E. Twitchell Letter By F. Peter Gersbacher Letter By John Lofton Letter By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
16-24	The editor's easy chair/Article The next abbot: A view of the world from 1,752 feet By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Appointment, call, and election; Greece PDF IMAGES
26-28	After hours/Article The penalty short By Stewart Beach SEE ALSO: Motion picture audiences PDF IMAGES
30-31	After hours/Article As hard as one can By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Saarinen, Aline B.(Aline Bernstein); Appreciation; Architects; Architecture, Modern; Saarinen, Eero; Eero Saarinen on his work (Book) PDF IMAGES
31	Article Letter to the mayor By George Coles SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Harper, James; Mayors; Street children PDF IMAGES
33-38	Article Martyrs on the moon? By Carl Dreher SEE ALSO: Astronautics, Military; Exploration; Manned space flight; Moon; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration PDF IMAGES
36	Poem A dream song By John Berryman PDF IMAGES
39-47	Article Newport notes: The Kennedys and other salts By George Plimpton SEE ALSO: America's Cup races; Family; Family relationships; Kennedy, John F.; Newport; Newport (R.I.); Rhode Island; Yachting PDF IMAGES
48-53	Article The peace ladies By Midge Decter SEE ALSO: Antinuclear movement; Women and peace PDF IMAGES
54-59	Article How to suceed at writing by trying very hard By John Masters SEE ALSO: Authors and publishers; Biography; English fiction; Masters, John; Portraits PDF IMAGES
59	Article Situation hopeless, as usual SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, British PDF IMAGES
60-63	Article Congressman Aspinall vs. the people of the United States By Paul Brooks SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. congressman; 1961-1963; Rules and practice; United States. Congress. House; Aspinall, Wayne N.; Wilderness areas PDF IMAGES
64-68	Fiction His friend Vanka: A story By Henia Karmel-Wolfe PDF IMAGES
72-78	Article Japan tries for a second miracle By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Industrial relations; 1945-1989; Western influences PDF IMAGES
85-92	Article New York's “middle-class” homosexuals By William J. Helmer SEE ALSO: Gay men PDF IMAGES
88	Article Nor long remember . . . SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Reconstruction; Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) PDF IMAGES
92	Poem Hands in a family photograph By John Ratti PDF IMAGES
95-97	Article “Unhappy talk” By Hayes B. Jacobs SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Aleutian Islands; Military life; Personal narratives, American; Swearing PDF IMAGES
98-104	Article On Broadway and off: A midseason view of the current plays By John Ivan Simon SEE ALSO: Dramatic criticism; Albee, Edward; Pinter, Harold; Off-Broadway theater; The collection (Play); Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Play) PDF IMAGES
105-114	The new books/Review Designs for the new politics By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; Arendt, Hannah; Inside politics: the national conventions, 1960 (Book); Burns, James MacGregor; Oakeshott, Michael Joseph; 1961-1963; On revolution (Book); Tillet, Paul; Rationalism in politics (Book); Heilbroner, Robert L.; The Christian in politics (Book); The deadlock of democracy: four-party politics in America (Book); The great ascent (Book); The politics of hope (Book); James, Walter PDF IMAGES
108	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
115-119	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; Bowen, Catherine Drinker; Mirrielles, Edith R.; Four portraits and one subject: Bernard DeVoto (Book); Arpino, Giovanni; Baldwin, James; Brooks, John; Chamberlain, John; Asquith, Margot; Bonham Carter, Mark; Emmett, Martha Wiley; Von Abele, Rudolph Radama; Satan, have pity (Book); The autobiography of Margot Asquith (Book); The crime of honor (Book); The enterprising Americans: a business history of the U.S.A. (Book); The fate of the Edsel and other business adventures (Book); The fire next time (Book); The party (Book); Stegner, Wallace Earle PDF IMAGES
120-124	Music in the round/Review Varese and Bartok By Discus SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Music for strings, percussion, and celesta; Three village scenes (Sound recording); Bartók: Piano concert #1; Piano concert #2 (Sound recording); Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Precht, Donna; Varèse, Edgard; Lehel, György; Ferencsik, Janos; Zempléni, Kornél; Performances; Craft, Robert; Wehner, Tibor; Varèse: Ionization; Octandre; Density 21.5; Intégrales; Poème éléctronique (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
124	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Werba, Erik; Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich; Mussorgsky: Songs and dances of death; The nursery; The he-goat; Hopak (Sound recording); Devrath, Netania; Performances PDF IMAGES Notice “The craft of intelligence,” by Allen Dulles By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Intelligence service; Special numbers; “The craft of intelligence” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES
125	Jazz notes/Review Some girls By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Lincoln, Abbey; O'Day, Anita; McRae, Carmen; Kitt, Eartha; Anderson, Ernestine; Humes, Helen; Jazz; Baker, LaVern; Wiley, Lee; Alexandria, Lorez; 1961-1970; Harrow, Nancy; Performances; Vaughan, Sarah PDF IMAGES