January 1960
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Articles
France
Table of Contents
Yugoslavia
Afternoon at Moroto
On his visit to a remote tribe in East Africa last summer, JOHN P. MARQUAND was witness to some contrasts in that rapidly evolving territory which come powerfully alive in the pages that follow.
"The Temporal the All?"
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
Sentencing: The Judge's Problem
A New Yorker by birth, educated at DeWitt Clinton High School and Fordham University, IRVING R. KAUFMANhas been internationally famous since 1951‚ when he pronounced on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg the first peacetime death sentences for espionage in the history of the United States. He was named judge of the United States district court for the southern district of New York in October, 1949, and since then he has established his reputation for fair and firm decisions.
The Job of the Washington Correspondent
On his seventieth birthday, WALTER LIPPMANN,speaking to an overflow meeting of the National Press Club, defined the new and changing responsibilities of the Washington correspondent. For his acumen and the accuracy of his analysis he received a standing ovation. This is what he said.
The Legacy of Able Seaman Pickett
J. W. DICKSON is an Illinois businessman in his early forties for whom writing has been a persistent hobby. Now he has turned seriously to the short story form. The following sketch is based on a true anecdote.
The Tea Drinkers
Oncle Serge
Pianist, conductor, and writer, BORIS GOLDOVSKY was born in Moscow in 1908, studied extensively in Europe, and came to this country in 1930 following his graduation from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. At Tanglewood he worked in close association with Dr. Serge Koussevitzky; there, for nearly a decade, Mr. Goldovsky served as head of the opera department and was responsible for a number of notable American premières.
Boss Crump's Town: A Cub Reporter's First Campaign
A square-cut, powerful Georgian, RALPH MCGILL has been editor of the Atlanta CONSTITUTION since 1942 and has long been respected for his courage and integrity. In the following account he tells of his initiation into politics when, as a cub reporter, he was assigned to cover an election campaign presided over by Boss Crump.
Calendar of Important European Events for January and February
Life Is an Operetta
Playwright and actor, master mimic and monologist, PETER USTINOV embarked a year ago on a series of extraordinary tales which appeared in seven successive issues of the ATLANTIC. With some additional material. they were published last fall in book form under the title ADD ADASH OF PITY. This is the second in a new sequence, exclusive and certainty unpredictable.
The Gnome
The South African Treason Trial
One of the undaunted liberal voices in South Africa, ALAN PATON was born of English settlers in Pietermaritzburg on January 11, 1903. His father was a civil servant, his mother a teacher, and after his graduation from the University of Natal, he himself began teaching in a Zulu school. In 1935 Mr. Paton went to Johannesburg to become principal of Diepkloof Reformatory, where he took over the task of re-educating the 650 young African inmates. Out of his wide experience and deep feeling came his profoundly moving novel CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY. And the same impulses prompted him to serve as a trustee of the Treason Trial Defence Fund.
Accent on Living
Diehards
SCOTT CORBETT is a native Missourian who is now leaching English in Providence‚ Rhode Island. His most recent, book, TREE HOUSE ISLAND, was published last winter under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint.
The Adventure Cereals
His regular hours of night work on the Baltimore SUN have developed in WALTER M. GIBB an exaggerated interest in cereal packages.
Cuckoo
Service to Two Titans
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Books the Editors Like
Reader's Choice
