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September 1963

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson SEE ALSO: Traffic signs and signals PDF IMAGES
6-16	Letters/Department Letters On Is the welfare state obsolete?, from June 1963: Letter By Mortimer M. Caplin Letter By Irving Kristol Letter By Ira S. Robbins On Renaissance at the University of Texas, from June 1963: Letter By Thornton Hardie Letter By Willie Morris On The hard kind of patriotism, from July 1963: Letter By Corinna Marsh Letter By John David Miller On Fighter pilot, from July 1963: Letter By David E. Steiner Letter By Barry Tully On Those annoying farmers, from July 1963: Letter By Hazel Krumwiede Letter By Ervin L. Peterson On Pidgin, from July 1963: Letter By Oliver T. Myers On Myths about publishing, from July 1963: Letter By Bennett Cerf PDF IMAGES
20-24	The editor's easy chair/Article Helping hand for a literary upstart By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Authors and patrons; Reportage literature, American; Reporters and reporting PDF IMAGES
26-32	After hours/Article The beauty part of rowing By William G. Wing SEE ALSO: Boats and boating; Rowing PDF IMAGES
32	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
37-43	Article The troubled conscience of American business By Bernard D. Nossiter SEE ALSO: Decision-making (Ethics); Executives; Ford Motor Company; General Electric; Price fixing; Social responsibility of business PDF IMAGES
44-45	Article Life inside a paper bag By Richard Winkler SEE ALSO: Advertising executives; Psychosomatic aspects PDF IMAGES
46-53	Article Chiang Kai-shek's silent enemies By Albert Axelbank SEE ALSO: Career as Chinese Nationalist president; Chinese reunification question, 1949-; Chiang, Kai-Shek; 1945-1975; Taiwan PDF IMAGES
54-64	Article Washington's chance for splendor By Wolf von Eckardt SEE ALSO: Buildings, structures, etc.; Career as U.S. president; Centers for the performing arts; City planning; Kennedy, John F.; Knowledge—City planning; Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.); L'Enfant, Pierre Charles; Public architecture; Urban renewal PDF IMAGES
65-70	Article The case for fast drivers By Robert L. Schwartz SEE ALSO: Speed limits; Traffic accidents; Traffic safety PDF IMAGES
70	Poem Song of Balaam's donkey By Jack Marshall PDF IMAGES
71-78	Fiction Dearly beloved: A story By Joseph E. Kokjohn PDF IMAGES
78	Poem Next to the godly By Barbara Overmyer PDF IMAGES
79-92	Article The military's limited war against segregation By Ruth Brecher and Edward M. Brecher SEE ALSO: African American soldiers; Civil Rights; Segregation PDF IMAGES
92	Article The man who refused a hat By Luigi Giorgio Barzini SEE ALSO: Biography; Paul VI, Pope; Popes PDF IMAGES
94-100	Article A special duty for Republicans By John V. Lindsay SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. congressman; Civil Rights; Internal security; John V. Lindsay; 1961-1963; The Republican Party; Rules and practice; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
101-105	Article The quietmouth American By Donald J. Lloyd SEE ALSO: Communication; 1945-1970 PDF IMAGES
106-115	The new books/Review The new poetry By William Jay Smith SEE ALSO: Absent and present (Book); All my pretty ones (Book); Sexton, Anne; Noll, Bink; Kallman, Chester; Jones, David Michael; Final solutions (Book); Seidel, Frederick; Guarded by women (Book); Nemerov, Howard; Untermeyer, Louis; Swenson, May; Modern American poetry and modern British poetry (Book); Rukeyser, Muriel; Poetry, Modern; Pack, Robert; Jeffers, Robinson; The anathemata (Book); The beginning and the end and other poems (Book); The center of the circle (Book); The next room of the dream (Book); To mix with time, new and selected poems (Book); Traveling through the dark (Book); Waterlily fire, poems 1935-1962 (Book); Stafford, William PDF IMAGES
115-118	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Alice (Book); Dawkins, Cecil; Fremlin, Celia; Wright, Charles David; Cunningham, E.V.; Borland, Hal; In the vernacular: the English in India (Book); Fishman, Jack; Frame, Janet; My darling Clementine: the story of Lady Churchill (Book); Jarrell, Randall; Rascal: a memoir of a better era (Book); Kipling, Rudyard; Snowman, snowman (Book); North, Sterling; The English in England (Book); The messenger (Book); The quiet enemy and other stories (Book); The reservoir (Book); The trouble makers (Book); When the legends die (Book) PDF IMAGES Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Turnbull, Andrew; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott); MacInnes, Helen; Herold, J. Christopher; Mandate for change, 1953-1956 (Book); Godden, Rumer; The Age of Napoleon (Book); The battle of the Villa Fiorita (Book); The letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Book); The Venetian affair (Book) PDF IMAGES
119-120	Music in the round/Review German and American stereotypes By Discus SEE ALSO: Krauss, Alfredo; Beethoven: F minor quartet, op. 95; F major quartet, op. 135 (Sound recording); Berlin Philharmonic; Brahms: Piano concerto in B flat (Sound recording); Nielsen, Carl; Chopin: Piano concerto in F minor (Sound recording); Ludwig, Christa; Cleveland Orchestra; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Chopin, Frédéric; Schubert, Franz; Szell, George; Taddei, Giuseppe; Steffek, Hanny; Brahms, Johannes; Juilliard String Quartet; Böhm, Karl; Fleisher, Leon; Bernstein, Leonard; Ludwig, Leopold; Maazel, Lorin; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Nielsen: Fifth symphony (Sound recording); Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra; Schubert: Symphony #2; Symphony #3 (Sound recording); Askenase, Stefan; Berry, Walter; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
120	Jazz notes/Review Gospel By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; 1961-1970 PDF IMAGES