Constant Reader, by Elmer Davis, THE HARPERS MONTHLY

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Constant Reader

by Elmer Davis

The Harpers Monthly, October 1950, pp. 161-175

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    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-13
    2. Letters, pp. 14-18
    3. The Day the Sun Stood Still by Eric Larrabee, pp. 19-26
    4. Insomnia in Whitehall by John Fischer, pp. 27-33
    5. The Seagull by Uys Krige, p. 34
    6. Hereby Hangs a Tale by Max Steele, pp. 35-41
    7. Parable of the Lost Chance by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 42-45
    8. The Ordeal of Dr. Condon by Louis Welborn, pp. 46-53
    9. The Eagle Without the Swastika by Fred M. Hechinger, pp. 54-61
    10. August Light by Katharine Strelsky, p. 62
    11. The Man Who Makes Weather by C. Lester Walker, pp. 63-70
    12. Breath of Air by Michael Jaffe, pp. 71-77
    13. Scientific Discussion---U.S.S.R. Style, p. 78
    14. Senator Flanders: Intelligent Conservative by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 79-86
    15. How to Save Lives in Traffic by Bruce Bliven, pp. 87-91
    16. Portrait of the Artist by William Abrahams, p. 92
    17. Why Communists Are Valuable by Gerald W. Johnson, pp. 93-95
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    19. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 98-101
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      4. Place Called Estherville by Erskine Caldwell
      5. The Islands of Unwisdom by Robert Graves
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      7. Sinners, Come Away by Leon Wilson
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      2. The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
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    2. Letters, pp. 18-22
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    4. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 27-30
    5. The Mirage of Pensions by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 31-38
    6. Reputation by Sonnenberg by Croswell Bowen and George R. Clark, pp. 39-48
    7. The New York Drought, p. 49
    8. An Altogether Different Strike by Mary Heaton Vorse, pp. 50-57
    9. Science, Secrecy, Security by Edward U. Condon, pp. 58-63
    10. The Villa by Victor Wolfson, pp. 64-68
    11. The Heist by Everett Debaun, pp. 69-76
    12. Advice to a Traveler by Howard Moss, p. 77
    13. When the Communists Entered Peking by Jean Lyon, pp. 78-85
    14. Notice to Our Readers, p. 86
    15. The Way a Novel Gets Written by Joyce Cary, pp. 87-92
    16. Marshall Plan, Point Four, and Beyond by Lancelot Law Whyte, p. 93
    17. The Ruin of Soul by Leonard Wallace Robinson, pp. 94-99
    18. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 100-103
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      3. The Education of Free Men by Horace M. Kallen
      4. The Theory of Education in the United States by Albert Jay Nock
      5. The Aims of Education, and Other Essays by Alfred North Whitehead
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      4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Victorian Romantic by Oswald Doughty
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    2. Letters, pp. 18-22
    3. Arms and the Germans, 1950 by Telford Taylor, pp. 23-29
    4. Everything's True About Texas by Stanley Walker, pp. 30-35
    5. Florentine Afternoons by Katherine Garrison Chapin, p. 36
    6. Part of the Family Picture by Peter De Vries, pp. 37-40
    7. Death Went Away by Mark Van Doren, p. 41
    8. Bread and the Stuff We Eat by James Rorty, pp. 42-48
    9. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 49-52
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    18. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 97-101
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      3. I Leap Over the Wall by Monica Baldwin
      4. Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin
      5. The Peabody Sisters of Salem by Louise Hall Tharp
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    2. Letters, pp. 24-30
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    4. Forecasting the 1950 Elections by Louis H. Bean, pp. 36-40
    5. The Blue-Winged Real by Wallace Stegner, pp. 41-49
    6. Hollywood Faces the Fifties by John Houseman, pp. 50-58
    7. Accused and Accuser in Lilliput, p. 59
    8. Two Boys on a Mountain by William O. Douglas, pp. 60-65
    9. A Cataclysm Threatens California by Alfred M. Cooper, pp. 66-69
    10. Those Lovely Figures by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 70-75
    11. China in the Long Haul by Nathaniel Peffer, pp. 76-83
    12. Death of the Zulu by Uys Krige, pp. 84-88
    13. Rebop, Bebopo, and Bop by Marshall W. Stearns, pp. 89-95
    14. Aunt Alice in April by William H. Matchett, p. 96
    15. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 97-100
    16. Marquand of Newburyport by Granville Hicks, pp. 101-108
    17. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 109-113
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      2. Incredible Tale by Gerald W. Johnson
      3. The Price of Union by Herbert Agar
      4. An Essay for Our Times by H. Stuart Hughes
      5. The Coming Defeat of Communism by James Burnham
      6. Disaster Through Air Power by Marshall Andrews
      7. The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
      8. Of Fear and Freedom by Carlo Levi
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      2. The Vintage by Anthony West
      3. Son of the Giant by Stuart Engstrand
      4. Tiger in the Garden by Speed Lamkin
      5. Weeping Bay by Joy Davidman
      6. Men of Stones by Rex Warner
      7. Decision in Germany by Lucius D. Clay
      8. Science Is a Sacred Cow by Anthony Standen
      9. Humanity and Happiness by Georg Brockmann
      10. The Art of Real Happiness by Norman Vincent Peale and Smiley Blanton
      11. The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams
      12. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
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    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-21
    2. Letters, pp. 22-30
    3. The Second Eisenhower Boom by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 31-38
    4. Wordsworth Refuted by Cecil C. Eckles, p. 39
    5. The Catholic Church in America by D.W. Brogan, pp. 40-50
    6. Battle Over Television. Hollywood Faces the Fifties, Part II by John Houseman, pp. 51-59
    7. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 60-63
    8. The Beautiful Mo by George Howe, pp. 64-69
    9. Lincoln Never Said That by Albert A. Woldman, pp. 70-73
    10. Due Notice to the AMA, p. 74
    11. Railroads on the Wrong Track by Herbert Askwith, pp. 75-79
    12. Measures for Song and Dance by Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 80-81
    13. Tourist in England by Osbert Lancaster, pp. 82-85
    14. Full Circle by Bentz Plagemann, pp. 86-95
    15. Heigh Ho, Silver by Morris E. Garnsey, pp. 96-99
    16. Remembering a Red Brink Wall in Rensselaer by Thomas Hornsby Ferril, p. 100
    17. At My Wit's Beginning by Fred Schwed, jr., pp. 101-106
    18. Congressional Investigation 1778, p. 107
    19. A Middle-Aged Man's Garden of Verses by Peter De Vries, pp. 108-109
    20. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 110-113
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      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 114-122 - 9 Reviews
      1. The Novel and Our Time by Alex Comfort
      2. The World of Fiction by Bernard DeVoto
      3. The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
      4. Geraldine Bradshaw by Calder Willingham
      5. The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac
      6. Editor to Author by Maxwell E. Perkins and John Hall Wheelock
      7. The Twin Adventures by William Saroyan
      8. Star Money by Kathleen Winsor
      9. The Sunnier Side by Charles Jackson
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      1. Nothing by Henry Green
      2. Under the Skin by Phyllis Bottome
      3. The Town by Conrad Richter
      4. Eye Witness by George Harmon Coxe
      5. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester
      6. A Golden Girl by Harry Sylvester
      7. Hie to the Hunters by Jesse Stuart
      8. Shakespeare of London by Marchette Chute
      9. Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky
      10. Of Men and Mountains by William O. Douglas
      11. The Story of Irving Berlin by David Ewen
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    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-19
    2. Letters, pp. 20-26
    3. Who Are the American Poor? by Robert L. Heilbroner, pp. 27-33
    4. Two Stories from the Isle of Man by Nigel Kneale, pp. 34-40
    5. The Secretary of State, p. 41
    6. War Games in Southern Waters by Fletcher Pratt, pp. 42-49
    7. Atomic Engines---When and How by Louis Cassels, pp. 50-56
    8. Jumped or Fell by Ted Robinson Jr., pp. 57-61
    9. Roosevelt and His Detractors by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 62-68
    10. The Twilight of Wall Street by Ed Tyng, pp. 69-76
    11. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 77-80
    12. Orchestration by David Morton, p. 81
    13. The Road that Food Built by Myron Stearns, pp. 82-88
    14. The Supreme Court and Big Business by Harold Fleming, pp. 89-94
    15. Up-State Cellar Hole by Fred Lape, p. 95
    16. The Inspector by John Fraiser Robinson, pp. 96-101
    17. What the Wrights Really Invented by Wolfgang Langewiesche, pp. 102-104
    18. Oscillogram by David McCord, p. 105
    19. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 106-109
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      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 110-114 - 7 Reviews
      1. The Essential Samuel Butler by G.D.H. Cole and Samuel Butler
      2. The Law by Rene A. Wormser
      3. Reason and Law by Morris Raphael Cohen
      4. Courts on Trial by Jerome Frank
      5. The Sense of Injustice by Edmond N. Cahn
      6. Seeds of Treason by Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky
      7. The Case of General Yamashita by A. Frank Reel
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 115-122 - 9 Reviews
      1. Red Bone Woman by Carlyle Tillery
      2. The Circle of the Day by Helen Howe
      3. The Other Father by Laura Z. Hobson
      4. Cloak of Laughter by May Mellinger
      5. Night Journey by Albert J. Guerard
      6. The Autobiography of Robert A. Millikan by Robert A. Millikan
      7. Room for One More by Anna Perrott Rose
      8. Louisa May Alcott by Madeleine B. Stern
      9. The World of Gilbert and Sullivan by William A. Darlington
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    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-13
    2. Letters, pp. 14-22
    3. How Big Is Too Big? by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 23-28
    4. What We Know About Drinking by C. Lester Walker, pp. 29-38
    5. The Perpetual Refugees by Michael L. Hoffman, pp. 39-45
    6. Night Study by William Rose Benet, p. 46
    7. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Grocery Clerk by Bentz Plagemann, pp. 47-51
    8. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 52-55
    9. The Predicament of the Tolerant by Horace M. Kallen, pp. 56-60
    10. Subway by Gilbert Highet, p. 61
    11. Mencken and the Twenties by William Manchester, pp. 62-72
    12. Japan: Challenge to Our Prestige by Helen Mears, pp. 73-77
    13. Without the Violence by May Sarton, p. 78
    14. Her Breath upon the Windowpane by William Goyen, pp. 79-80
    15. Well Time Answers Some Questions, p. 81
    16. The Economics of Holidays by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 82-88
    17. Three Sonnets by David McCord, p. 89
    18. Old-Age Pensioner by Isabel Gaines, pp. 90-97
    19. A Word to Put It Mildly for the Gulf Stream, p. 98
    20. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 99-102
    21. [+]
      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 103-106 - 7 Reviews
      1. World Enough and Time by Robert Penn Warren
      2. A Woman of Means by Peter Taylor
      3. The House of Fiction by Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate
      4. Fundamentals of Good Writing by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren
      5. The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot
      6. The Little Blue Light by Edmund Wilson
      7. The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry
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      1. The Dog Star by Donald Windham
      2. The Snow Was Black by Georges Simenon
      3. The High Place by Geoffrey Household
      4. Herman Melville by Newton Arvin
      5. Comes the Comrade! by Alexandra Orme
      6. Ten Days to Die by Michael A. Musmanno
      7. Assignment to Austerity by Herbert L. Matthews and Nancie Matthews
      8. Courtroom: The Story of Samuel S. Leibowitz by Quentin Reynolds
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    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-15
    2. Letters, pp. 16-24
    3. ACTH, Cortisone, & Co. by Leonard Engel, pp. 25-33
    4. The Noble Crusade of Senator McCarthy by Alfred Friendly, pp. 34-42
    5. What It Was Like by Eleanor Lattimore, pp. 43-52
    6. The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi, pp. 53-59
    7. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 60-63
    8. Unlikely Teacher by Hortense Flexner, p. 64
    9. Mencken and the Mercury by William Manchester, pp. 65-72
    10. The Tourist by S.P. Andersen, p. 73
    11. The Care and Feeding of Small Business by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 74-79
    12. The Old Strife At Plant's by Joyce Cary, pp. 80-96
    13. How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff, pp. 97-101
    14. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 102-104
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      1. Making Capitalism Work by Dexter Merriam Keezer
      2. The Social Costs of Private Enterprise by K. William Kapp
      3. Taxes and Economic Incentives by Lewis H. Kimmel
      4. The Future of Democratic Capitalism by Thurman W. Arnold, Morris L. Ernst, and Adolf A. Berle, Jr., ...
      5. The New Society by Peter F. Drucker
      6. The ABC of the Federal Reserve System by Edwin Walter Kemmerer
      7. Federal Reserve Policy-Making by George Leland Bach
      8. America's New Frontier: The Mountain West by Morris E. Garnsey
      9. Of Men and Mountains by William O. Douglas
      10. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth by Henry Nash Smith
      11. Bold New Program by Willard R. Espy
      12. The United States and the Restoration of World Trade by William Adams Brown, Jr.
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      1. Too Little Love by Robert Henriques
      2. The Legacy by Nevil Shute
      3. Troy and the Maypole by Winston Clewes
      4. John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen
      5. There'll Always Be a Drayneflete by Osbert Lancaster
      6. Here's England by Ruth McKenney and Richard Bransten
      7. The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford
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    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-15
    2. Letters, pp. 16-20
    3. The Communists in America by Robert H. Jackson, pp. 21-26
    4. The Two Laughters by Joseph Joel Keith, p. 27
    5. Take a Chair by Peter Blake and Robert Osborn, pp. 28-33
    6. Our Roads Are Going to Pot by Myron Stearns, pp. 34-37
    7. Population and Human Destiny by Julian Huxley, pp. 38-46
    8. Two Manx Tales by Nigel Kneale, pp. 47-57
    9. I Weep for the Chinese by Walter Robb, pp. 58-63
    10. U.S. vs. A & P: Battle of Titans by John Williams Andrews, pp. 64-73
    11. Sir Carl of Heldart: A Novell by Victoria Lincoln, pp. 74-78
    12. What It Was Like (Part II) by Eleanor Lattimore, pp. 79-86
    13. Anthem for Boeotia by Christopher Morley, p. 87
    14. The Snout by Loren C. Eiseley, pp. 88-91
    15. Eames vs. Hammock by Harold A. Larrabee, p. 92
    16. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 93-96
    17. Problems Problems Everywhere, p. 97
    18. "Tie It Up in a New Package" by Jean Glasscock, pp. 98-99
    19. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 100-103
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      1. Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
      2. Primer of the Novel by Vincent McHugh
      3. The Margin by J.D. Scott
      4. The Plenipotentiaries by H.J. Kaplan
      5. An Edith Wharton Treasury by Arthur Hobson Quinn and Edith Wharton
      6. Selected Writings of William Dean Howells by Henry Steele Commager and William Dean Howells, ...
    21. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 109-112 - 7 Reviews
      1. The House of Breath by William Goyen
      2. The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
      3. The Small Hours of the Night by Timothy Angus Jones
      4. Ordeal by Slander by Owen Lattimore
      5. Rise Up and Walk by Turnley Walker
      6. Butcher's Dozen, and Other Murders by John Bartlow Martin
      7. 12 Against Crime~~Twelve Against Crime by Edward D. Radin
  10. [+]
    October 1950 Issue = 25 Articles
    1. To Our Readers, pp. 4-6
    2. Letters by President Truman, p. 7
    3. Personal and Otherwise by John A. Kouwenhoven, pp. 8-22
    4. One Hundred Years of Harper's, pp. 23-36
    5. Hardy Centennials by Philip Hamburger, pp. 37-40
    6. Look at the Schools from the Inside by R.L., pp. 41-48
    7. The Century by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 49-57
    8. Precious Five by W.H. Auden, pp. 58-59
    9. The Age of Taste by Russell Lynes, pp. 60-73
    10. Women Have Come a Long Way by Eleanor Roosevelt, pp. 74-76
    11. Reader, Transatlantic by Rebecca West, pp. 77-86
    12. To Be Sung by Peter Viereck, p. 87
    13. The Prisoner by Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 88-96
    14. America on the Move by John A. Kouwenhoven, pp. 97-144
    15. The Big Change by Frederick Lewis Allen, pp. 145-160
    16. Constant Reader by Elmer Davis, pp. 161-175
    17. The U.S.A. from the Air by Wolfgang Langewiesche, pp. 176-199
    18. A Name for the City by William Faulkner, pp. 200-214
    19. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 215-220
    20. The Villains by Gerald W. Johnson, pp. 221-228
    21. Mountains of Paper by Roger Burlingame, pp. 229-247
    22. Coming Events Cast Their Shadows, pp. 248-249
    23. The Years of My Life by Thomas Mann, pp. 250-267
    24. A Century of Books by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 268-277
    25. New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 278-284
  11. [+]
    November 1950 Issue = 20 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-15
    2. Letters, pp. 16-20
    3. This War Is Different by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 21-26
    4. Our Most Serious Military Problem, p. 27
    5. London Journal, 1762-1763 by James Boswell, pp. 28-38
    6. The Unhappy Warrior by Sylvia Stallings, p. 39
    7. The New Snobbism by Russell Lynes, pp. 40-50
    8. Korea: the Military Lesson by Eric Larrabee, pp. 51-57
    9. The Reasonable Music by John Cheever, pp. 58-62
    10. Sic Semper, p. 63
    11. The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto, pp. 64-67
    12. A University in Jeopardy by John Caughey, pp. 68-75
    13. Church and State in Israel by William Zukerman, pp. 76-78
    14. The Soil of Genius, p. 79
    15. Under Weigh by Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 80-88
    16. McCarran, Lone Wolf of the Senate by Alfred Steinberg, pp. 89-94
    17. Snow Tracks by Burke Boyce, p. 95
    18. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 96-99
    19. [+]
      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 100-108 - 10 Reviews
      1. The Trial of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
      2. The Pageant of Russian History by Elizabeth Seeger
      3. Our Ally: The People of Russia by William Alexander Wood and Myriam Sieve
      4. The People of Great Russia by Geoffrey Gorer and John Rickman
      5. The Best American Short Stories, 1950 by Martha Foley
      6. Prize Stories of 1950 by Herschel Brickell
      7. Mixed Company by Irwin Shaw
      8. Collected Stories by William Faulkner
      9. Cast a Cold Eye by Mary McCarthy
      10. The Short Stories of Conrad Aiken by Conrad Aiken
    20. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 109-112 - 10 Reviews
      1. Reprisal by Arthur Gordon
      2. The Widow by Susan Yorke
      3. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone by Tennessee Williams
      4. The Backward Bride by Aubrey Menen
      5. The Peacock by Jon Godden
      6. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
      7. Belles On Their Toes by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, ...
      8. A Generation on Trial by Alistair Cooke
      9. The Other Side of the Bottle by Dwight Anderson and Page Cooper
      10. You Can Stop Drinking by Harold Morrow Sherman
  12. [+]
    December 1950 Issue = 19 Articles
    1. Personal & Otherwise, pp. 6-17
    2. Letters, pp. 18-22
    3. The Nature of the Universe, Part I by Fred Hoyle, pp. 23-30
    4. A New Deal 1890, p. 31
    5. Tourist in America by D.W. Brogan, pp. 32-40
    6. Promiscuous Unbound by Max Steele, pp. 41-46
    7. A Calculated Risk in Yugoslavia by Henry C. Wolfe, pp. 47-53
    8. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 54-57
    9. Venezuela Booms by Tharon Perkins, pp. 58-65
    10. Memorandum to a Tired Bureaucrat by James Rorty, p. 66
    11. The Danger Point in Taxes by Colin Clark, pp. 67-69
    12. The Exile by Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 70-78
    13. American Goods Preferred by Fred M. Hechinger, pp. 79-84
    14. Boundary by Adrienne Cecile Rich, p. 85
    15. The Strangest Place in Chicago by John Bartlow Martin, pp. 86-97
    16. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 98-101
    17. [+]
      New Books by Charles Poore, pp. 102-111 - 7 Reviews
      1. Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 by Frederick A. Pottle and James Boswell
      2. Blandings' Way by Eric Hodgins
      3. Helena by Evelyn Waugh
      4. A Fearful Joy by Joyce Cary
      5. Burning Bright by John Steinbeck
      6. The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg
      7. Snobs by Russell Lynes
    18. Books for Children by Phyllis McGinley, pp. 112-115
    19. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 116-118 - 6 Reviews
      1. The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay
      2. The Sign of Jonah by Nancy Hale
      3. Who Is My Neighbor? by Nigel Balchin
      4. Tomato Cain, and Other Stories by Nigel Kneale
      5. The Country Wife by Dorothy Van Doren
      6. The Story of My Psychoanalysis by John Knight
2. [+]
  Issues of 1951 = 12 Issues, 249 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1952 = 12 Issues, 247 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1953 = 12 Issues, 259 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1954 = 12 Issues, 251 Articles
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  Issues of 1955 = 12 Issues, 229 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1956 = 12 Issues, 234 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1957 = 12 Issues, 236 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1958 = 12 Issues, 247 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1959 = 11 Issues, 257 Articles
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Issues of the 1960s = 10 Years, 120 Issues, 2,653 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1960 = 12 Issues, 262 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1961 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1962 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1963 = 12 Issues, 241 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1964 = 12 Issues, 274 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1965 = 12 Issues, 325 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1966 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1967 = 12 Issues, 269 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1968 = 12 Issues, 228 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1969 = 12 Issues, 248 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1970s = 10 Years, 114 Issues, 2,355 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1970 = 12 Issues, 221 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1971 = 12 Issues, 238 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1972 = 12 Issues, 222 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1973 = 12 Issues, 318 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1974 = 12 Issues, 274 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1975 = 12 Issues, 256 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1976 = 6 Issues, 123 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1977 = 12 Issues, 226 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1978 = 12 Issues, 234 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1979 = 12 Issues, 243 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1980s = 10 Years, 119 Issues, 2,472 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1980 = 11 Issues, 219 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1981 = 12 Issues, 231 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1982 = 12 Issues, 190 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1983 = 12 Issues, 211 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1984 = 12 Issues, 298 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1985 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1986 = 12 Issues, 294 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1987 = 12 Issues, 263 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1988 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1989 = 12 Issues, 251 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 109 Issues, 2,094 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1990 = 11 Issues, 220 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1991 = 8 Issues, 151 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1992 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1993 = 9 Issues, 183 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1994 = 11 Issues, 224 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1995 = 12 Issues, 221 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1996 = 12 Issues, 227 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1997 = 12 Issues, 213 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1998 = 10 Issues, 182 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1999 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2000s = 9 Years, 87 Issues, 1,520 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2000 = 11 Issues, 178 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 2001 = 12 Issues, 215 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 2002 = 12 Issues, 199 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 2003 = 11 Issues, 201 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 2004 = 10 Issues, 180 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 2005 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 2006 = 11 Issues, 174 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 2007 = 2 Issues, 25 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 2009 = 6 Issues, 130 Articles
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 2 Issues, 39 Articles
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  Issues of 2010 = 2 Issues, 39 Articles