1956/01/21 --
Front cover features "Benjamin Franklin, whose 250th birthday this week is the occasion for the publication of four books"

Contents as follows:

ANNUAL BUSINESS ISSUE

  • The Future Belongs to the Educated Man by Harry A. Bullis
  • Economic Peace: An Editorial by Courtney C. Brown
  • Prosperity and the US - A Symposium

    • BOOKS:

  • Benjamin Franklin - An Essay by Robert E. Spiller
  • Mr. Franklin edited by Leonard W. Lebaree and Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. - Reviewed by Richard D. Heffner
  • Ben Franklin: An Affectionate Portrait by Nelson Beecher Keyes - Reviewed by Willard M. Wallace
  • Resourceful Diplomat -- Reviews by Raymond Walters, Jr.
  • The Lamb by Frances Mauriac -- Reviewed by Laurent LeSage
  • Brothers in Law by Henry Cecil - Reviewed by Eleazar Lipsky
  • The Hearth and the Strangeness by N. Martin Kramer - Reviewed by Harrison Smith
  • Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space by Carola Giedion-Welcker - Reviewed by Georgine Oeri
  • Emily Dickinson by Thomas H. Johnson - Reviewed by Edward Wagenknecht
  • Cervantes by Sebastian Juan Arbo - Reviewed by Thomas G. Bergin
  • The Work of Art by Stephen C. Pepper - Reviewed by Frances Blanshard

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Trade Winds by Bennett Cerf
  • Booked for Travel by Horace Sutton
  • Literary I.Q.
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Broadway Postscript by Henry Hewes
  • TV and Radio by Robert Lewis Shayon
  • SR Goes to the Movies by Hollis Alpert
  • Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin
  • Literary Crypt
  • Kinsley Double-Crostic No. 1139