September 1941

Articles

• Pitchers and Catchers

  “Good fielding and pitching, without hitting, or vice versa, is like Ben Franklin’s half a pair of scissors — ineffectual. Twenty-game winners or .400 hitters do not ensure victory.”

  Moe Berg

• First Person Singular

  Edward Weeks

• The Blind Man's House

  Wilson Follett

• Reveille in Washington: 1860-1865

  Richard Ely Danielson

• River of Ruins

  Wilson Follett

• The Red Decade

  William Henry Chamberlin

• The Harp and the Blade

  Richard Ely Danielson

• Above Suspicion

  Richard Ely Danielson

• No Life for a Lady

  Wilson Follett

• Shelter

  Richard Ely Danielson

• The Long Week End

  Wilson Follett

• William Allen White

  Wilson Follett

• The Coward Heart

  Robert M. Gay

• South Star

  Elizabeth Drew

• The Sound of Wings

  Richard Ely Danielson

• What It Costs Hitler

  Douglas Miller

• The Struggle for Continents

  William Henry Chamberlin

• Americans: Jew and Christian

  Emanuel Celler, Louis Finkelstein, and Frances Strauss

• 'That Men May Fly'

  Charles R. Codman

• Camouflage

  Nina Fedorova

• Government Propaganda

  Lowell Mellett

• Dark Symphony

  Melvin B. Tolson

• Pardon My Harvard Accent

  W. G. Morse

• Minds in the Mending

  Olivia Harlan

• Henry L. Stimson

  Claude M. Fuess

• Bonehead

  Rena Niles

• Tomorrow Will Come

  E. M. Almedingen

• In the Valley of Virginia

  Roger Burlingame

• Cycle of Summer

  Katherine Van Der Veer

• How to Build a Summer Place

  Henry Seidel Canby

• Raccoon Hunt

  Robert P. Tristram Coffin

• Reveille in Washington: 1860-1865

  Margaret Leech

• The Contributors' Column

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