October 1960
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Articles
Live!
Out of Step
R. G. G. PRICE lives in Sussex and has contributed much light writing and literary criticism toPUNCH.
Time
The Neurotic's Notebook
They Shall Have Music
Japan
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Reader's Choice
West Indies
Korea
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
Why Japan Surrendered
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON was professor of American history at Harvard,the winner of a Pulitzer Prize,the author of THE MARITIME HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS and of the finest life yet written of Columbus when in 1941 he volunteered to write the history of the American Navy in World War II. He saw active duty on eleven different ships, wears seven battle stars on his service ribbon,and was retired with the rank of rear admiral. From the fourteenth and final volume in his great series,we are privileged to draw this magnificent chapter.
The Cannibal Theater
An English playwright, PETER SHAFFERattended Saint Paul’s School, and after a stint in the English coal mines as a “Bevin boy” in the war, went on to Trinity College, Cambridge. His most recent play, FIVE FINGER EXERCISE,directed by Sir John Gielgud, ran in London for almost two years and has recently been playing to full houses on Broadway. It won the Drama Critics’ Award last spring for the best foreign play.
Safe at Last
JESSE HILL FORDis an ATLANTICdiscovery who graduated from Vanderbilt University and studied writing under Andrew Lytle at the University of Florida. Three of his short stories have appeared in our pages, and in 1959 he was awarded an Atlantic Grant to assist him with his novel, which has now been completed. His first play, THE CONVERSION OF BUSTER DRUMWRIGHT,was produced by CBS Television Workshop last winter.
Statistics
The Chicago Police Scandals
Crime and police corruption became headline news in Chicago last January when eight officers of the law were arrested for burglary. As operating director of the Chicago Crime Commission since 1942, VIRGIL W. PETERSONhas been in a unique position to observe and study the scandals that have beset the police department of Illinois’s largest city through the years.
Grass-Roots Politics in Manhattan
In two campaigns to overthrow boss rule in his election district, DAVID L. HURWOOD has worked with a reform group which has nominated district leaders dedicated to clean government and party reform. In the article which follows, he tells what happened. Mr. Hurwood, after several years of experience in the import business, is now directing market research for a New York-Boston agency.
Schlesinger's f.d.r
Author and journalist, GERALD W. JOHNSON is a Southern Democrat who was born in North Carolina and who has lived happily in Baltimore ever since the SUNPAPERScalled him to their editorial staff in 1926. A close friend of Frank R. Kent and Henry L. Mencken, he is the author of twenty books, including biographies of Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and F.D.R. As a lifelong Democrat, he is well qualified to review THE POLITICS OF UPHEAVAL,a new volume by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Giants
John P. Marquand
Beginning with the publication of THE LATE GEORGE APLEYin 1937,there was no doubt that John P. Marquand was New England’s most distinguished satirist. Few novelists of our lime have sustained their work so well or so long. Speaking as a fellow judge of the Book-of-the-Month Club, John Mason Brown has said, “His standards were high, his disgust was gorgeous, and he usually took his place at the table as a man so steam-driven by ideas he wanted to release that it seemed certain he would explode if he did not release them soon.”
The Dancing Man
In Memoriam: Denis Devlin, poet and Irish Minister to the Italian Republic, after an evening in which he outdanced everyone.
The Krupp Empire
London-born and a graduate of Oxford, TERENCE PRITTIEwas a prisoner of war in Germany from 1944 to 1945. Following his release at the end of the war, he joined the staff of the MANCHESTER GUARDIANand has been its correspondent in Germany ever since. He has broadcast repeatedly over B.B.C. and has appeared on television in both Britain and Germany. The following is the first of two excerpts drawn from his new book, GERMANY DIVIDED,which will be published by Atlantic-Little, Brown next month.
Accent on Living
Man and the Kitchen
Bliss
