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May 23, 1959 Issue - 31 Articles- Trade Winds, pp. 8-11
The Supreme Court Decision: Five Years Later
- 1. Problem and Prospect
Hodding Carter
, pp. 12-14 - 2. The Crisis of the City
Ralph McGill
, p. 15 - 3. The Southern Style
Harry S. Ashmore
, p. 16 - 4. A Workable Integration Plan
Omer Carmichael
, p. 17 - 5. How Much Progress?
Edward D. Ball
, p. 18 - Report Card on Desegregation , p. 19
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Literary Horizons (Review) Granville Hicks
, p. 20 Crazy!
- The Empire City by Paul Goodman
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Poetry Quarterly (16 Reviews) John Holmes
, p. 21 Enriched by All the Pasts
- A Reviewer's ABC by Conrad Aiken
- Complete Poems of A.E. Housman by A.E. Housman
- The Satires of Juvenal by Rolfe Humphries and Juvenal
- Oddments, Inklings, Omens, Moments by Alastair Reid
- The Night of the Hammer by Ned O'Gorman
- The Dark Houses by Donald Hall
- John Betjeman's Collected Poems by Lord Birkenhead and John Betjeman
- The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, and Other Poems by James Merrill
- Tenants of the House: Poems 1951-1956 by Dannie Abse
- A Suit of Nettles by James Reaney
- The Wilderness by Louis Coxe
- The Idle Demon by R.P. Lister
- The Last Days of Lincoln by Mark Van Doren
- The Walks Near Athens by Hollis Summers
- Heart's Needle by W.D. Snodgrass
- How Does a Poem Mean? by John Ciardi
- "The Efficiency of Freedom"
John Lear
, p. 22 An Editorial
- Letters to the Editor, p. 23
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Movies: How to Be Naughty but Nice (3 Reviews) Arthur Knight
, pp. 24-28 Count Your Blessings (1959 Film), by Jean Negulesco
- Count Your Blessings (1959 Film) by Jean Negulesco
- Ask Any Girl (1959 Film) by Charles Walters
- The Naked Maja (1959 Film) by Henry Koster
- TV and Radio
Gilbert Seldes
, p. 29 Deploring "Playhouse 90" deletion
- Music to My Ears
Irving Kolodin
, p. 30 Summing up the Bolshoi Ballet
- Literary Crypt, p. 31
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Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo (Review) A.C.B. Lovell
, p. 31 The Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler
- The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler
- Literary I.Q., p. 32
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Yesterday's Esoterica: Today's Space Primers (6 Reviews) Irwin Hersey
, p. 32 Space Flight, by Carsbie C. Adams
- Space Flight by Carsbie C. Adams
- Rocketry and Space Exploration by Andrew G. Haley
- Space Weapons
- Rocket to the Moon by Erik Bergaust and Seabrook Hull
- Behind the Sputniks by F.J. Krieger
- Soviet Space Science by Ario A. Shternfeld
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As Teenager She Toppled a Tsar (Review) Ivar Spector
, p. 33 The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova, by E.R. Dashkova and Kyril Fitzlyon
- The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova by E.R. Dashkova and Kyril Fitzlyon
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New Light Shed on a Dark Genius (Review) Joseph Wood Krutch
, p. 34 The Curse of the Misbegotten~Eugene O'Neill, by Croswell Bowen and Shane O'Neill
- The Curse of the Misbegotten~Eugene O'Neill by Croswell Bowen and Shane O'Neill
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Tilted Temple of Aimee Semple (Review) Quentin Reynolds
, p. 35 The Vanishing Evangelist, by Lately Thomas
- The Vanishing Evangelist by Lately Thomas
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Long Way from the Glass Factor (Review) Margaret L. Coit
, p. 36 The Transatlantic Smiths, by Robert Allerton Parker
- The Transatlantic Smiths by Robert Allerton Parker
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Chaste Paganism (Review) R.W.B. Lewis
, p. 37 The Straw Man, by Jean Giono
- The Straw Man by Jean Giono
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Peach Pits and Poetry (Review) Germaine Bree
, p. 38 The Seed, by Pierre Gascar
- The Seed by Pierre Gascar
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Gallic Idyl (Review) Robert Phelps
, p. 38 The Agony of Love, by Claude Roy
- The Agony of Love by Claude Roy
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The People Beyond the Pyrenees (Review) Ramon Sender
, p. 39 A History of Spain, by Harold V. Livermore
- A History of Spain by Harold V. Livermore
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Tranquil Look at Turbulent Times (Review) Quincy Howe
, p. 40 Decade in Europe, by Barrett McGurn
- Decade in Europe by Barrett McGurn
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Criminal Record (3 Reviews) Sergeant Cuff
, p. 41 The Listening Walls, by Margaret Millar
- The Listening Walls by Margaret Millar
- He Would Provoke Death by Clodagh Gibson Jarvie
- A Dream of Falling by Mary O. Rank
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Leader of the 123rd (Review) Hal Bridges
, p. 41 Three Years in the Army of the Cumberland, by James A. Connolly and Paul M. Angle
- Three Years in the Army of the Cumberland by James A. Connolly and Paul M. Angle
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The Gunnery (Review) Hal Bridges
, pp. 41-50 The Long Arm of Lee, by Jennings Cropper Wise
- The Long Arm of Lee by Jennings Cropper Wise
- Kingsley Double-Crostic No. 1313, pp. 51-52