1956/01/28 --
Front cover features "The thirteen-year-old Mozart at the harpsichord"

Contents as follows:

IDEAS

  • United Nations 1956: An Inventory by James T. Shotwell
  • The Best Investment on Earth - An Editorial
  • Mozart After 200 Years

    • BOOKS:

  • The Lords of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien - An Essay-Review by Louis J. Halle
  • Coil of the Serpent by Dexter Allen - Reviewed by Edward Fuller
  • Aspects of Love by David Garnett - Reviewed by J.F. McCrindle
  • The Secret of the Hittites by C. W. Ceram - Reviewed by C.A. Robinson, Jr.
  • On The Track of the Prehistoric Man by Herbert Kuhn - Reviewed by Paul S. Wingert
  • UN: The First Ten Years by Clark M. Eichelberger
    The United Nations: Planned Tyranny by V. Orvall White
    The UN Record: Ten Fateful Years for America by Chesley Manly
    -An Essay-Review by Lionel Gelber
  • The United States and Asia by Lawrence H. Battistini - Reviewed by Harold H. Fisher
  • As If by John Ciardi -- Reviewed by I.L. Salomon
  • Hands Laid Upon the Wind by Bonaro W. Overstreet - Reviewed by J.S. Bixler
  • Lincoln's Sons by Ruth Painter Randall -- Reviewed by Harry E. Pratt
  • Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy - Reviewed by Harry Barnard

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Trade Winds by Bennett Cerf
  • Literary I.Q.
  • Literary Crypt
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Broadway Postscript by Henry Hewes
  • SR Goes to the Movies by Hollis Alpert
  • Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin
  • Kinsley Double-Crostic No. 1140