1956/02/04 --
Front cover features Edwin O'Connor whose "The Last Hurrah" is SR's Book of the Week

Contents as follows:

IDEAS

  • That Johnny May Read by Frank G. Jennings
  • The $500,000,000 Question
  • The Elevation of Doestoevsky - An Editorial

    • BOOKS:

  • The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor - Reviewed by Howard Mumford Jones
  • Modern Italian Stories edited by W.J. Strachan - Reviewed by P.M. Passinetti
  • Freedom or Death by Nikos Kazantzakis - Reviewed by Ben Ray Redman
  • MacArthur - His Rendezvous with History by Major General Courtney Whitney - Reviewed by S.L.A. Marshall
  • My Brother Adlai by Elizabeth Stevenson Ives and Hildegarde Dolson - Reviewed by Bess Furman
  • We the Judges by William O. Douglas - Reviewed by Fred Rodell
  • The Columbia by Stewart H. Holbrook - Reviewed by Murray Morgan
  • Victorian People by Asa Briggs - An Essay-Review by George Woodcock
  • The Drefus Case by Guy Chapman - Reviewed by Leo Gershoy
  • Pioneering in Big Business by Ralph W. Hidy and Muriel E. Hidy - Reviewed by George Soule

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Trade Winds by Bennett Cerf
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Broadway Postscript by Henry Hewes
  • SR Goes to the Movies by Hollis Alpert
  • TV and Radio by Dale Warren
  • Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin
  • Booked for Travel by Horace Sutton
  • Literary I.Q.
  • Literary Crypt
  • Criminal Record
  • Kinsley Double-Crostic No. 1140