May 1973
In This Issue
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Articles
Breakfast of Champions: This Novel Contains More Than Twice Your Minimum Daily Requirement of Irony
Cucumbers Into Sunbeams
The City Cops of Saint Dominic
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Hothouse by the East River
Bigfoot
Evening in Byzantium
The Harpoon Gun
Outside the Walls
W. B. Yeats: Memoirs
If I Die in a Combat Zone
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
The Eyes of the Interred
Girls at War and Other Stories
Glooskap's Children
The Devil in the Bush
The Blue and White Collar Revolt: How Business Is Coping
Innocent Bystander: M'aidez
Ugly Is Beautiful: The Main Street School of Architecture
North Vietnam
Nora
On Leaving Town
The Testing of a Bullfighter
“Today we have drunk from the fountain of bullfighting.” (They really talk like that.)
Faustus and I
The Bucky Wunderlick Story
Chant: Riverside
The Herbert Affair
He seemed to be the perfect soldier, a hero in Korea and in Vietnam. Then he was driven out of the Army, his career ruined because he tried to prevent his superiors from concealing war crimes against the Vietnamese. That was the story a television producer persuaded his superiors at CBS should be presented to a nationwide audience. As the producer and his associates began assembling the facts, they found it changing into a very different story, one that left the reporter disillusioned and the hero threatened with decanonization. The producer here tells how the case unfolded for him, from his first, convincing interviews with Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Herbert, through intensive researching of Herbert’s alarming charges against fellow Army officers, to a dramatic confrontation between Herbert and some of those who disputed him on the CBS program, Sixty Minutes, shown on February 4 of this year. It is a tangled story, to say the least. One of its lesser anomalies: Herbert’s book Soldier, now profitably riding the best-seller list, is published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which is owned by CBS, the organization that has done the most to attack the book’s integrity.
Tanzania
A House Divided
The Soviet Jews Come Forward
They have left a society where they could not be Jews, to live where they can no longer be Russians.
