November 1954
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Articles
The Middle East
Accent on Living
Fuel Injection
ROGER HUNTINGTON, who lives in Lansing, Michigan, has written extensively for motoring publications in this country and England.
And the Band Spells On!
RALF KIRCHER has published three books of light writing, and many pieces in magazines and newspapers. This is his first appearance in the Atlantic.
Score This, Giuseppe!
SCOTT CORBETT, who mured from Missouri to live in East Dennis on Cape Cod, is the author of a pleasant book about his new surroundings, We Chose Cape Cod. Another musical piece by him will appear in the near future.
The Marmalade Cat
Record Reviews
Sunrise on Everest
War correspondent and world traveler, ALAN MOOREHEAD is the author of many books and magazine articles. He was born in Australia and makes his home in London.
More Notes of an Unnaturalist
Brazil
Symphony or Musical Comedy?
Japan at the Crossroads
A specialist in international and corporate law and senior partner in the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York,ARTHUR H. DEAN was appointed by President Eisenhower as deputy to the Secretary of Slate with the rank of Ambassador, His was the difficult assignment of conducting the preliminary negotiations attempting to arrange the political conference envisaged by the Korean Armistice Agreement, and we have reason to be grateful for his firmness and long patience in that ordeal.
The Fairy Fire
A graduate of Queens’ College, Cambridge, T. H. WHITE published his first novel, Loved Helen, in 1926 when he was a young schoolmaster at Stowe. He scored his first major success in this country with The Sword in the Stone; and then, when he had resumed writing after the war, he again hit the target of the Book-of-the-Month Club with his novel, Mistress Masham’s Repose. In Who’s Who he gives as his recreation “Animals"; and one will see why after reading the story which follows.
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
Teaching Is Hard Work
A schoolteacher for more than three decades, the mother of a happy family, and former president of the N.E.A., SARAH CALDWELL has been teaching in the public schools of Ohio since 1929 and has worked tirelessly for teacher welfare and advancement. President Truman appointed her a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Seventh Conference of UNESCO, which met in Paris in the autumn of 1952. “Her colleagues swear,”wrote one oj them, that this drawling daughter of Georgia did more on one trip overseas to promote international understanding than many ambassadors do during a whole term.”
The Touch of Life
The daughter of American missionaries, who teas taken to China at an early age. PEARL S. BUCK made her first appearance in print in the Atlantic for January, 1923. Since then she has contributed to us as the spirit prompted and we were particularly proud of her a when in 1938 she received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The paper which follows is drawn from her new book, My Several Worlds, autobiographical in nature, touching on her life in China, Japan, and in this country. It will be published in early November by John Day.
Plains
The Finest Pipe Maker in Russia
A Londoner who cherishes every vestige of the cockney, WOLF MANKOWITZ graduated from Cambridge University and within six years established himself as one of the leading dealers in Wedgwoad. Now in his late twenties, he writes as he pleases, dividing his time between anthovitative studies of the Portland vase, plays for the London theater, and fiction. His two latest novels, Make Me an Offer and A Kid for Two Farthings, are being filmed. In the months ahead we shall publish a series of his short stories, of which this is the first.
No Armament Race: A Reply to Thomas K. Finletter
Editor and publisher of the Arizona Daily Star, WILLIAM R. MATHEWS is a spokesman for that body of Americans who feel that a race in rearmament will defeat its purpose. Mr. Mathews has visited the Orient four times and the Soviet Union three times, his most recent trip being last spring; he has crossed Siberia once, and has covered Indonesia from end to end. That he is no stargazer is evidenced by the fact that on November 28, 1941, he published in his paper an editorial forecasting the Japanese attack: on Pearl Harbor.
Wading for Steelhead
The Red Shirt Election
Last Night, When Tired of Myself and Fate
Good Burgundy
A Bostonian and a veteran of both World Wars. CHARLES R. CODMAN served as a combat pilot in the American Air Force (1917—18) and as Senior A.D.C. to General Patton {1912—45). As a connoisseur of wine and a lifelong friend of France he has selected and brought back many a famous vintage to S. S. Pierce, and on these visits he has been admitted to a charming, touching association with that intimate circle responsible for some of the best-known vineyards of Europe.
Edward Gibbon
Editor, essayist, critic, biographer, and novelist,LOUIS KRONENHERGER is a literary scholar specializing in eighteenth-century subjects. He is the author of Company Manners, Kings and Desperate Men, and Thread of Laughter, and is the editor of many anthologies. This is another in the Atlantic’s series of biographical essays dealing with the decisive events in the lives of famous men.
The Welshman as Poet
When he was last in London, the Editor had access to a series of unpublished broadcasts by DYLAN THOMAS, two of which seemed of particular interest to American readers. The soliloquy on August Bank Holiday appeared in our August issue, and we now follow it with Mr. Thomas's evaluation of The Welshman As Poet. As originally presented on BBC, the text concluded with a reading of two of Mr. Thomas’s poems by the director of the program. Both of these essays will be included in a book by Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning, to be published this fall by New Directions.
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