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October 1950 Issue
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This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Winning the Nobel Prize
    Naboth Hedin
  • The Atlantic Report on the World Today: London
  • The Atlantic Report on the World Today: The United Nations
  • Why Have a Labor Party?
    Herbert Agar
  • Hitler's Secret Records: Unpublished Stenographic Reports of Hitler's Talks With His Generals
  • A Steel Man Looks at the Schuman Plan
    Clarence B. Randall
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By Ethel Jacobson
October 1950 Issue
by ETHEL JACOBSON
ROVER brings the paper in.
Isn’t Rover bright?
Bite by bite.
Rover brings the paper in,

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