September 1973
In This Issue
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Articles
God's First Mistakes
Kozmic Blues
No Business Like News Business
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Frieda Lawrence
Jason and Medeia
Dickie's List
The 92nd Tiger
Ward 402
Adventures With D. W. Griffith
Sir Noel Coward: His Words and Music
The Hall of the Mountain King
Exterminator!
Red Adam's Lady
Red Adam's Lady
Utah
The Confessions of Lady Nijo
Half Remembered: A Personal History
Marilyn
The Menlo Park Police
Innocent Bystander: The b.s. Bicentennial
History as Mirror
Doomsayers ride high, and understandably so, in the final decades of the twentieth century. But here a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian draws from the past a message of hope: Man, as he’s done before, will muddle through his time of dismay and disarray.
The Editor's Page
Rest
How Now World's Greatest Cow?
The Polite Mugger
The Endless Night
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business; but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. Benny was granted that much. In September of 1950, when Joseph was four months old and Carol had someone else to love, the government of the United States, which had paid for much of Dr. Benny Beer’s medical education, sent him the bill. He was impressed into service—an emergency, they assured him—and was sent to Korea, where a war had been agreed upon.
Rwanda and Burundi
Alkan
Is he Charles Henri Valentin Morhange, Alkan, the False Dimitri, or the Barber of Seville?
Shall We Strip-Mine Iowa and Illinois to Air-Condition New York?
Farming and Mining: There Is No Land to Spare
The Last of the West: Hell, Strip It!
