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1956-01-21 Saturday Review Magazine Contents

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

    • 1956-01-28 Saturday Review Magazine Contents

    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

    • 1956-02-04 Saturday Review Magazine Contents

    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

    • 1956-02-11 Saturday Review Magazine Contents

    1956/02/11 —
    Front cover features Artur Rubinstein

    Contents as follows:

    IDEAS

  • Mr. Lincoln Visits Richmond by Richard Hanser
  • Mencken 1880-1956 by Gerald W. Johnson
  • The Poverty of Imitation: An Editorial
  • Rubinstein, Music and Piano Playing by Irving Kolodin
  • Rousseau: Totalitarian? by J. Salwyn Schapiro

    • BOOKS:

  • The Capri Letters by Mario Soldati – Reviewed by Harrison Smith
  • The Frozen Jungle by Lawrence Earl – Reviewed by Walter Havighurst
  • The Strong Hand by Michael Blankfort – Reviewed by Nathan Rothman
  • A Forest of Tigers by Robert Shaplen – Reviewed by J.G. Hitrec
  • China: New Age and New Outlook by Pin-Chia Kuo – Reviewed by Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • The Rebuilding of Italy by Muriel Grindrod – Reviewed by Michael T. Florinsky
  • The Five-Dollar Goldpiece by Orville Prescott – Reviewed by Robert Halsband
  • Mrs. Fiske and the American Theatre by Archie Binns — Reviewed by Alan S. Downer
  • Dreaming of a White Bonnet — Reviews by Helen McCully

    • 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
  • Booked for Travel by Horace Sutton
  • Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin
  • Kinsley Double-Crostic No. 1142

    • 1956-02-25 Saturday Review Magazine Contents

    1956/02/25 —
    Front cover features Eugene O’Neill whose play “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” has just been published and produced posthumously

    Contents as follows:

    IDEAS

  • Washington – A Birthday Reminder by John A. Perkins
  • The New Ordeal: An Editorial
  • Paradox in Blue by Abram Chasins and Irving Kolodin

    • BOOKS:

  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill – Reviewed by Gilbert Seldes
  • That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis – Reviewed by Harvey Curtis Webster
  • The Other Paris by Mavis Gallant – Reviewed by Rose Feld
  • The Gentleman and the Tiger edited by Harold C. Syrett – Reviewed by Louis Filler
  • John Quincy Adams and the Union by Samuel Flagg Bemis – Reviewed by George Dangerfield
  • Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Hamlin – Reviewed by Anthony N.B. Garvan
  • Can We Solve the Farm Problem? by Murray R. Benedict – Reviewed by Russell Lord
  • The Latest on the Flying Saucer – Reviews by Siegfried Mandel

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Trade Winds by Bennett Cerf
  • Literary Crypt
  • Broadway Postscript by Henry Hewes
  • SR Goes to the Movies by Hollis Alpert
  • Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin
  • Criminal Records
  • Kinsley Double-Crostic No. 1144
  • SR Recordings for March

    • 1956-01-07 Saturday Review Magazine Contents

    1956/01/07 —
    Front cover features “Grand World-Trip Prizewinner, Taken by Henrik Krogius in Allahabad, India

    Contents as follows:

    WORLD TRAVEL ISSUE

  • The Mobile Americans by Horace Sutton
  • Prizewinners’ Photographic Gallery
  • Bringing Up Father Abroad by Robert Buckner
  • Judging the Photo Contest by Ivan Dmitri
  • Seeing America Second by Maynard O. Williams
  • Cyprus by E.S. MacDonald
  • Photo Prizewinners

    • IDEAS:

  • New Vistas for the Historian by Arnold Toynbee
  • Who Is Santayana? by Charles Frankel
  • Fortunate Diversity: An Editorial

    • BOOKS:

  • Jonathan Swift by John Middleton Murray – Reviewed by John M. Bullitt
  • George Moore by Malcolm Brown – Reviewed by Leon Edel
  • Island in the Sun by Alec Waugh – Reviewed by James Kelly
  • Winter’s Tales I complied by the editors of Macmillan & Company – Reviewed by Harvey Curtis Webster
  • Second Ending by Evan Hunter – Reviewed by Whitney Balliett
  • Ambassador Extraordinary by Alden Hatch – Reviewed by Allen Churchill
  • The Grand Mademoiselle by Francis Steegmuller – Reviewed by Helen Beal Woodward
  • The Trail of the Dinosaur by Arthur Koestler – Reviewed by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Trade Winds by Bennett Cerf
  • Letters to the Editor
  • SR Goes to the Movies by Hollis Alpert – “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” featuring Susan Hayward
  • TV and Radio by Robert Lewis Shayon
  • Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin
  • Literary I.Q.
  • Literary Crypt
  • Kinsley Double-Crostic No. 1137