1939/10 --

  • Old People: A Rising National Problem by Roy Helton
  • Roosevelt, the Rich Man's Alibi by Elmer Davis
  • "The Strange Noise of Dr. Beldoon" -- A story by Morris Markey
  • "Lost World" -- A poem by Hermann Hagedorn
  • How the Wright Brothers Began by Fred C. Kelly
  • "Surmise" -- A poem by Roland English Hartley
  • The Future of the British Empire by C. Harley Grattan
  • Why Can't We Have Perfect Teeth? by Walter C. Alvarez, M.D.
  • Conscience in Wartime by Lucille B. Milner and Groff Conklin
  • Great Hawaii by Leonard Bacon

  • Why Slum Clearance May Fail by Alfred Rheinstein and Henry F. Pringle
  • Music in Aspic by Oscar Levant
  • In Defense of Ghost Writing by Seneca Johnson
  • The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Flexner
  • One Man's Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates