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by "Mr. Harper"

The Harpers Monthly, July 1949, pp. 99-102

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      5. The Big Wheel by John Brooks
      6. A Rage to Live by John O'Hara
    24. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 108-114 - 5 Reviews
      1. The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty
      2. The Mudlark by Theodore Bonnet
      3. Miracle at Cardenrigg by Tom Hanlin
      4. The Body by William Sansom
      5. A Matter of Taste by Richard Lockridge
  10. [+]
    October 1949 Issue = 16 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-14
    2. Letters, pp. 15-20
    3. Look What's Happened to California by Carey McWilliams, pp. 21-29
    4. The Curtain Isn't Iron by Joseph C. Harsch, pp. 30-36
    5. They Called It a Rest Camp by George McMillan, pp. 37-45
    6. Have Jews a Divided Loyalty? by Johan J. Smertenko, pp. 46-52
    7. Land's End by Weldon Kees, p. 53
    8. The Lady Walks by Jean Powell, pp. 54-64
    9. Due Notice To the FBI by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 65-68
    10. The British Rich Today by Virginia Cowles, pp. 69-73
    11. Is Management Legitimate? by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 74-79
    12. The Aristocrat by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 80-85
    13. Incident At Fernwood by John Bartlow Martin, pp. 86-98
    14. After Hourse by "Mr. Harper", pp. 99-103
    15. [+]
      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 104-111 - 9 Reviews
      1. The Book Industry by William Miller
      2. Don Quixote de la Mancha by Samuel Putnam and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, ...
      3. The World Next Door by Fritz Peters
      4. The Condor and the Cows by Christopher Isherwood
      5. The Greenroom by Hamilton Basso
      6. The Crack in the Column by George Weller
      7. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
      8. Stalin: A Political Biography by Isaac Deutscher
      9. Three Who Made a Revolution by Bertram D. Wolfe
    16. [+]
      The Year In Poetry by Lloyd Frankenberg, pp. 112-122 - 13 Reviews
      1. The Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949 by Robert Frost
      2. The Death of Captain Nemo by Robert Hillyer
      3. Selected Poems by Ezra Pound
      4. Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
      5. Skylight One by Conrad Aiken
      6. The Wind of Time by Rolfe Humphries
      7. Versus by Nash Ogden
      8. Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
      9. The Grasshopper's Man, and Other Poems by Rosalie Moore
      10. The Beast in His Hunger by Harry Brown
      11. Collected Poems by William Empson
      12. Selected Poems by Sacheverell Sitwell
      13. Collected Poems, 1908-1956 by Siegfried Sassoon
  11. [+]
    November 1949 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-16
    2. Letters, pp. 17-24
    3. The Catholic Controversy by George N. Shuster, pp. 25-32
    4. What Should Colleges Teach Women? by Mirra Komarovsky, pp. 33-36
    5. How to Get on in the World (Horatio Alger Jr.), p. 37
    6. A Long Farewell by Neil S. Boardman, pp. 38-44
    7. Ballade for Braque by Babette Deutsch, p. 45
    8. The Spectral Evidence by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 46-49
    9. Bargain-Basement Diplomacy by James P. Warburg, pp. 50-54
    10. Butcher's Dozen: The Cleveland Torso Murders by John Bartlow Martin, pp. 55-68
    11. Autumn Has Not Her Smile by Robert Brittain, p. 69
    12. Tronco by Niccolo Tucci, pp. 70-75
    13. The Rise and Fall of Dr. Fishbein by Milton Mayer, pp. 76-84
    14. Rx. (D.W. Cathell), p. 85
    15. The Insecurity of Labor Unions by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 86-91
    16. Ballad of the Little Old Man by Lloyd Frankenberg, p. 92
    17. Farewell to Moscow by Ignazio Silone, pp. 93-98
    18. Sonnet in Free Rhythm by Stephen Dunn, p. 99
    19. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 100-102
    20. [+]
      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 103-109 - 9 Reviews
      1. Male and Female by Margaret Mead
      2. The Science of Culture by Leslie A. White
      3. Writing for Love or Money by Norman Cousins
      4. A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
      5. The Art of Readable Writing by Rudolf Flesch
      6. Willa Cather on Writing by Willa Cather
      7. The Quintessence of G.B.S. by Stephen Winsten and George Bernard Shaw
      8. Loving by Henry Green
      9. The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravia
    21. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 110-122 - 7 Reviews
      1. It Was Like This by Anne Goodwin Winslow
      2. The River Journey by Robert Nathan
      3. The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
      4. The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart
      5. Backwoods Teacher by Joseph Nelson
      6. Morning Faces by John Mason Brown
      7. Your Amiable Uncle: Letters to His Nephews by Booth Tarkington
  12. [+]
    December 1949 Issue = 25 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-15
    2. Letters, pp. 16-24
    3. The Dogged Retreat of the Doctors by Milton Mayer, pp. 25-37
    4. How to Make an Atom Bomb by J.A. Campbell, pp. 38-41
    5. The Poet Covers His Child by E.A. Muir, p. 42
    6. The Wages of Virtue by Mario Prodan, pp. 43-45
    7. Peace of Mind in the Mysterious East, p. 46
    8. Uncle Sam's Friends Are Worried by Leslie Roberts, pp. 47-48
    9. Help Wanted---No Isms, p. 49
    10. The Almighty Dollar by Oscar Berger, pp. 50-51
    11. What We Can Now Do Under Point Four by Milo Perkins, pp. 52-60
    12. Norway Harbor by Stephen Dunn, p. 61
    13. The Hoarded Island by Clark Sherman Parker, pp. 62-67
    14. For the Wayward and Beguiled by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 68-71
    15. Social Security Poor by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 72-77
    16. Suburbia, Of Thee I Sing by Phyllis McGinley, pp. 78-82
    17. Some Disconnected Notes About Drawing by William M. Ivins, Jr., pp. 83-84
    18. Back by Weldon Kees, p. 85
    19. Vega by John Cheever, pp. 86-94
    20. The People of the Pit by Alfred Hayes, pp. 95-96
    21. What's Become of Those Small Planes? by Albert Douglas, pp. 97-101
    22. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 102-105
    23. [+]
      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 106-115 - 9 Reviews
      1. Knight's Gambit by William Faulkner
      2. F.D.R.: My Boss by Grace G. Tully
      3. Twenty-Seven Masters of Politics by Raymond Moley
      4. Roosevelt and the Russians by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. and Walter Johnson
      5. This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt
      6. Backgrounds of Power by Roger Burlingame
      7. Not So Long Ago by Lloyd Morris
      8. Women Are Here to Stay by Agnes Rogers
      9. Love and Death by Gershon Legman
    24. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 116-121 - 10 Reviews
      1. The Plum Tree by Mary Ellen Chase
      2. West of the Hill by Gladys Hasty Carroll
      3. The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
      4. Celia Amberley by Victoria Lincoln
      5. The Lonely by Paul Gallico
      6. The Eye of God by Ludwig Bemelmans
      7. The Autobiography of Will Rogers by Donald Day and Will Rogers
      8. The Art of Living by Saul Steinberg
      9. A Sort of a Saga by Bill Mauldin
      10. The Hours and the Ages by Edward Nicholas
    25. Books For Children by Frances N. Chrystie, pp. 122-130
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  Issues of 1961 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
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  Issues of 1962 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
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  Issues of 1963 = 12 Issues, 241 Articles
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  Issues of 1966 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
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  Issues of 1967 = 12 Issues, 269 Articles
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  Issues of 1969 = 12 Issues, 248 Articles
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  Issues of 1970 = 12 Issues, 221 Articles
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  Issues of 1971 = 12 Issues, 238 Articles
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  Issues of 1972 = 12 Issues, 222 Articles
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  Issues of 1973 = 12 Issues, 318 Articles
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  Issues of 1974 = 12 Issues, 274 Articles
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  Issues of 1975 = 12 Issues, 256 Articles
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  Issues of 1976 = 6 Issues, 123 Articles
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  Issues of 1977 = 12 Issues, 226 Articles
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  Issues of 1978 = 12 Issues, 234 Articles
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  Issues of 1979 = 12 Issues, 243 Articles
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  Issues of 1980 = 11 Issues, 219 Articles
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  Issues of 1981 = 12 Issues, 231 Articles
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  Issues of 1982 = 12 Issues, 190 Articles
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  Issues of 1983 = 12 Issues, 211 Articles
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  Issues of 1984 = 12 Issues, 298 Articles
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  Issues of 1985 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
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  Issues of 1986 = 12 Issues, 294 Articles
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  Issues of 1987 = 12 Issues, 263 Articles
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  Issues of 1988 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
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  Issues of 1989 = 12 Issues, 251 Articles
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  Issues of 1990 = 11 Issues, 220 Articles
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  Issues of 1991 = 8 Issues, 151 Articles
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  Issues of 1992 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
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  Issues of 1993 = 9 Issues, 183 Articles
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  Issues of 1994 = 11 Issues, 224 Articles
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  Issues of 1995 = 12 Issues, 221 Articles
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  Issues of 1996 = 12 Issues, 227 Articles
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  Issues of 1997 = 12 Issues, 213 Articles
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  Issues of 1999 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
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  Issues of 2000 = 11 Issues, 178 Articles
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  Issues of 2001 = 12 Issues, 215 Articles
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  Issues of 2002 = 12 Issues, 199 Articles
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  Issues of 2003 = 11 Issues, 201 Articles
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  Issues of 2004 = 10 Issues, 180 Articles
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  Issues of 2005 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
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  Issues of 2006 = 11 Issues, 174 Articles
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  Issues of 2007 = 2 Issues, 25 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