July 1963
In This Issue
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Articles
Log Drive on the Connecticut
An intrepid story of the lumberjacks and rivermen who rode the logs in the big drives on the Connecticut River
The Noisemakers
Never on Wednesdays
MACKINLEY HELM,who wrote many articles for the ATLANTIC over the past two decades, died recently at his home in California. He had just completed a leisurely trip around the world, and the following little piece came from his sojourn in Bangkok.
Pup, Pup, Pup
SARA WEEKS is a Boston housewife, mother of two,whose book for children, TALES OF A COMMON PIGEON, was published in 1960. This is her first appearance in the ATLANTIC.
Read Now, Pay Later
W. F. MIKSCH is a free-lance writer living in Newtown,Connecticut. He was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and attended Moravian College.
Canada
A Man Who Sits Up Nights
Record Reviews
Reasons for Travel
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Reader's Choice
Potpourri
West Germany
The Historian as Artist
Honors and distinction have come to ARTHUR M. S. SCHLESINGER, JR., ever since his graduation from Harvard, where he subsequently became a professor of history. In 1945, when he was twenty-eight, Mr. Schlesinger was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his bookTHE AGE OF JACKSON,and he has been widely acclaimed for his series of volumes on Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal. He is now on the, While House staff as a special assistant to President Kennedy.
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
"True Feeling Leaves No Memory"
Exercise and Heart Disease
A graduate of Harvard and of Harvard Medical SCHOOL, DR. SAMUEL A. LEVINEis an eminent heart specialist who is now Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the Harvard Medical School and Consultant in Cardiology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He is the author of several books on heart disease.
Our Fortunes Told
Uncles Oscar From Enköping
“I’ve spent a great deal of time in Europe,”writes ALTHAEA URN. “In my veins there flows the blood of Spain, Ireland, and France, and I grew up breathing the atmosphere of literary reference. My own first poem appeared in a magazine when I was fifteen.” Author of two novels and one volume of verse, Miss Urn divides her year between the eastern shore of Maryland and the French Riviera.
Bits of Sun
A Rough Map of Greece: The Bus From Athens
This is the fourth article to result from the travels of PHOEBE LOU ADAMS, who in the spring of 1962 made an independent exploration of the Greek mainland and its surrounding islands. Miss Adams, a graduate of Radcliffe College, is a member of the ATLANTIC staff.
The Englishman Who Foresaw the War
As Hitler’s shadow loomed over Europe from 1934 to 1938, there was a man in the British Foreign Office, Ralph Wigram, who was deeply versed in the German character and downright in his distrust of everything the Nazis stood for. This is how Wigram appeared to his perceptive junior, VALENTINE LAWFORD, whose memoirs,BOUND FOR DIPLOMACY,appear this month.
A Little More Time for Violence
A producer of television documentaries, DAVID LOWE has to his credit such programs as “Harvest of Shame,” on the migrant workers in the United States; “Who Speaks for Birmingham?" ; “War at the Top of the World,” on the Chinese invasion of India; and “Sabotage in South Africa.”
Death for Tahiti
Long residence in Papeete, Tahiti, has given HUGH CAPET close knowledge of and deep love for the people of the South Seas, and he views with utmost dismay General de Gaulle’s decision to turn the golden isles of Polynesia into a testing ground for nuclear weapons.
Coming About--Sorry!
Sailing as an amateur on the inland waterways of England provides the adventurous background for the following story by B. J. ACKERMANN, a Cambridge resident.
Shadows
Silent Spring on the Pacific Slope: A Postscript to Rachel Carson
Sportsman, author, and conservationist, CLARK C. VAN FLEET is a native Californian who for five decades has roamed the forests and fished the streams of the West Coast, He has been disturbed by the effect on wildlife of the reckless, uncoordinated use of pesticides. and he has been appalled at the attack on Rachel Carson by spokesmen of the chemical companies.
Artist at Work: Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall has lived in Paris since he left Russia in 1940. For the past five years he has devoted himself to a new medium, stained glass, and last winter invited CARLTON LAKE, an American art critic who is his neighbor, to go to Reims and watch him work.
