September 1962
In This Issue
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Articles
The Mother Tongue
United We Burn
Beneath the Moon
Zanzibar
They Shall Have Music
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Reader's Choice
Potpourri
Canada
Rome
Can Our Economy Stand Disarmament?
GERARD PIEL, who served as science editor of LIFE magazine from 1938 to 1944, assumed the presidency and direction of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN at a most strategic moment, and during the past fifteen years his periodical has become one of the most influential expositors of the atomic age anywhere to be read. The Phi Beta Kappa oration which he delivered at Harvard this June, and which we are happy to publish, will not soon be forgotten.
London
Brendan Behan's Dublin
The theater, poetry , and rebellion are quick in the blood of BRENDAN BEHAN, the Irish playwright; and in this episode drawn from his volume of reminiscences , BRENDAN BEHAN’S ISLAND, illustrated by Paul Hogarth , which is to be published by Bernard Geis Associates in October, we see the lively , colorful background from which his writing has emerged.
Mergers Might Save the Airlines
A partner of Smith, Barney & Company, WILLIAM BARCLAY HARDING is a member of an investment banking family. His great-grandfather, Jay Cooke. of Civil War fame, started with canal financing and later financed railroads. His father was active in railroads and highways. Mr. Harding’s main interest is air transportation.
Three Signs of Spring
A Head for Monsieur Dimanche
An English novelist who is at present a research fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, ANDREW SINCLAIR first visited America to study the prohibition movement under the direction of Oscar Handlin of Harvard and Richard Hofstadter of Columbia. His latest book, PROHIBITION, THE ERA OF EXCESS, WOS published in February under the AtlanticLittle, Brown imprint.
Thoreau and Human Nature
The essay by HOWARD MUMFORD JONES which follows was written at the invitation of the Thoreau Society of America on the occasion of the installation of Thoreau’s bust in the Hall of Fame. Mr. .Jones, who began teaching at Harvard in 1936 and has been Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of humanities, is note leaching at M.I. T. and is at work on a new book tracing the European origins of American culture.
You Can't Make Them Learn
Formerly a college teacher of broadcasting and a Tv producer-director, and now a free-lance writer, Dave Beckman spent this past year, while completing his work at New York University for a doctorate in Mass Communications in Education, as a substitute teacher in various Brooklyn secondary schools. Much of his teaching was in junior high schools in the stums, and in the pages that follow he gives us his sobering conclusions drawn from that experience.
Tarquinian
In Europe We Don't Kiss Them Good Night
The wife of a foreign diplomat, MIRA MICHAL,who writes under a nom de plume, will hare her first volume of reminiscences, NOBODY TOLD ME HOW,published in this country by Lippincott in the early autumn.
Seascape
Silent Nude
After Death
Alaska: Last Frontier
The editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin. PAUL BROOKS spends every holiday exploring the more remote and primitive of our national parks. As this goes to press he and his wife are deep in Canyonlands, that area in Utah which is note being considered for a new park.
Communism, Mongolian Brand
OWEN LATTIMORE is the only American who, when traveling in the vast frontier regions between China and Russia, front Manchuria to Central Asia, has the advantage of being able to speak Chinese and Russian as well as Mongol, He and his wife, Eleanor Holgate Lattimore, first reported on Mongolia and Turkistan in the ATLANTIC in the 1920s. Their visit to Mongolia in 1961 was made possible by grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and from the American Philosophical Society; and the book emerging from their trip, NOMADS AND COMMISSARS,will be published by the Oxford University Press.
The Foreigners Among Us
Read Any Good Books Lately--Rapidly?
More Violent Than Fiction
First Things First
