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December 1949 Issue - 25 Articles- Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-15
Mostly about our contributors
- Letters, pp. 16-24
- The Dogged Retreat of the Doctors
Milton Mayer
, pp. 25-37 - How to Make an Atom Bomb
J.A. Campbell
, pp. 38-41 - The Poet Covers His Child
E.A. Muir
, p. 42 - The Wages of Virtue
Mario Prodan
, pp. 43-45 A Story
- Peace of Mind in the Mysterious East, p. 46
- Uncle Sam's Friends Are Worried
Leslie Roberts
, pp. 47-48 - Help Wanted---No Isms, p. 49
- The Almighty Dollar
Oscar Berger
, pp. 50-51 - What We Can Now Do Under Point Four
Milo Perkins
, pp. 52-60 - Norway Harbor
Stephen Dunn
, p. 61 - The Hoarded Island
Clark Sherman Parker
, pp. 62-67 - For the Wayward and Beguiled
Bernard DeVoto
, pp. 68-71 The Easy Chair
- Social Security Poor
C. Hartley Grattan
, pp. 72-77 - Suburbia, Of Thee I Sing
Phyllis McGinley
, pp. 78-82 - Some Disconnected Notes About Drawing
William M. Ivins, Jr.
, pp. 83-84 - Back
Weldon Kees
, p. 85 - Vega
John Cheever
, pp. 86-94 A Story
- The People of the Pit
Alfred Hayes
, pp. 95-96 - What's Become of Those Small Planes?
Albert Douglas
, pp. 97-101 - After Hours
"Mr. Harper"
, pp. 102-105 -
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New Books (9 Reviews) Richard H. Rovere
, pp. 106-115 Faulkner, Mrs. Roosevelt, and Social History
- Knight's Gambit by William Faulkner
- F.D.R.: My Boss by Grace G. Tully
- Twenty-Seven Masters of Politics by Raymond Moley
- Roosevelt and the Russians by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. and Walter Johnson
- This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt
- Backgrounds of Power by Roger Burlingame
- Not So Long Ago by Lloyd Morris
- Women Are Here to Stay by Agnes Rogers
- Love and Death by Gershon Legman
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Books in Brief (10 Reviews) Katherine Gauss Jackson
, pp. 116-121 The Plum Tree, by Mary Ellen Chase
- The Plum Tree by Mary Ellen Chase
- West of the Hill by Gladys Hasty Carroll
- The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
- Celia Amberley by Victoria Lincoln
- The Lonely by Paul Gallico
- The Eye of God by Ludwig Bemelmans
- The Autobiography of Will Rogers by Donald Day and Will Rogers
- The Art of Living by Saul Steinberg
- A Sort of a Saga by Bill Mauldin
- The Hours and the Ages by Edward Nicholas
- Books For Children
Frances N. Chrystie
, pp. 122-130
