December 1949 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- Atlantic Reports, pp. 4-8
  Atomic Energy
- ---, pp. 9-13
- India , pp. 14-18
- Atlantic Repartee, pp. 19-22
- Pickwick Lives Forever
  Clifton Fadiman
  , pp. 23-29
- Truman Reshapes the Supreme Court
  Irving Dilliard
  , pp. 30-33
- Justice in a Democracy
  Mark DeWolfe Howe
  , pp. 34-36
- the Fear of Dying
  John Holmes
  , p. 37
- Maud
  Louis Auchincloss
  , pp. 38-43
  An Atlantic "First"
- Song
  Donald C. Babcock
  , p. 44
- Losing the War in Germany
  Otto Zausmer
  , pp. 45-49
  The Educational Front
- Honey and Dave
  W. Gordon Means
  , pp. 50-53
- Poems
  Thomas Merton
  , pp. 54-55
- The Grass Roots Revolution in Japan
  Nora Waln
  , pp. 56-60
- When Shakespeare Wrote the Sonnets
  Leslie Hotson
  , pp. 61-67
- Young Young Adams
  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  , pp. 68-73
  The Second Continental Congress
- Relics
  Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis
  , pp. 74-79
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  Science, War, and Democracy (Review)
  Richard E. Danielson
  , pp. 80-85
  Vannevar Bush's Declaration of Faith
  1. Modern Arms and Free Men by Vannevar Bush
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  The Peripatetic Reviewer (3 Reviews)
  Edward Weeks
  , pp. 86-91
  1. The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
  2. The Autobiography of Will Rogers by Donald Day and Will Rogers
  3. Chips Off the Old Benchley by Robert Benchley
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  Reader's Choice Conservatism Revisited, by Peter Viereck (7 Reviews)
  Charles J. Rolo
  , pp. 92-100
  1. Conservatism Revisited by Peter Viereck
  2. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  3. This I Do Believe by David E. Lilienthal
  4. Live with Lightning by Mitchell Wilson
  5. Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith
  6. John Ruskin: The Portrait of a Prophet by Peter Quennell
  7. Promise and Fulfilment: Palestine, 1917-1949 by Arthur Koestler
- "Tell Me a Story"
  Jane Cobb and Helen Dore Boylston
  , pp. 101-104
- This Month
  Charles W. Morton
  , p. 105
- Elixir of the Grape
  Salvatore P. Lucia
  , pp. 106-108
- Notes of an Unnaturalist
  David McCord
  , p. 109
- Postludium
  John V. Hicks
  , p. 110
- No Vain Imaginings
  Roberta Teale Swartz
  , p. 110
- Savory Seeds
  Helen Evans Brown
  , p. 111
- Challenge
  Mildred R. Howland
  , p. 112
- Cover panel
  Frederick Banbery