September 1975

Articles

• The Man Who Runs the Senate

  Robert Byrd, a little-known, fiddle-playing West Virginian, is the Senate’s Democratic whip, probably its next majority leader, and just possibly a favorite son at the 1976 Democratic Convention. Says he: “I believe that a big man can make a small job important.” Some of his colleagues think Byrd also proves the converse: that big job can help a small man to grow.

  Sanford J. Ungar

• Campaigning: Eugene McCarthy

  Jules Witcover

• Innocent Bystander: The A. J. Liebling Memorial Jeremiad

  L. E. Sissman

• Composition

  Peter Cooley

• Room 635, Wing B

  Celia Gilbert

• Jimmy Bignell's Sonnet

  Mark Lee

• Millionaire

  Pat Lamorte

• Poem for the Left and Right Hands

  Marilyn W. Thompson

• Where There's a Well..

  Mary Manning

• Cuba

  Stanley Meisler

• Pride of the Tiger: A Memoir

  Robert Lipsyte

• The Review

  Leslie Epstein

• Moving Again

  William Matthews

• Dwarfs

  Sonny Kleinfield

• In Switzerland

  Michael Dennis Browne

• Peking: Heart of Asia

  Ross Terrill

• Memories of a Crazy Maionese Maker

  G. Franco Romagnoli

• A Fan's Note

  Mary Pinkham

• Escaping False Categories

  Richard Todd

• 1776: Year of Illusions

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• George Sand

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Nobody Makes Me Cry

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Fight

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Kipling: The Glass, the Shadow and the Fire

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Men of Maize

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Poisoned Kiss

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Mutiny on the Globe

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Cockpit

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Mary Cassatt

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• A Word Child

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Hatchet Man

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Great Railway Bazaar/the Unexpurgated Code/the Ultimate Athlete

  Phoebe Lou Adams

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