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A novelist writing on a subject
close to his heart runs a great risk.
If he's not careful, the myriad details
of his favorite subject—fascinating
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Saturday Review
November 3, 1962
SR/IDEAS
18 How Much Can the Movies Say?
by Arthur Mayer
21 The Price of Peace: Who Should
Pay? by John G. Stoessinger
28 The Use and Misuse of Polls: An
Editorial
SR/SCIENCE
55 Reaching the Heart of South America,
by John Lear and Allan R.
Holmberg
SR/DEPARTMENTS
7 First of the Month, by Cleveland
Amory
12 Trade Winds, by Jerome Beatty, Jr.
16 Manner of Speaking, by John Ciardi
25 Literary I.Q.
29 Letters to the Editor
30 TV and Radio, by Robert Lewis
Shayon
31 Booked for Travel, by Horace Sutton
39 Music to My Ears, by Irving Kolodin
40 Broadway Postscript, by Henry
Hewes
41 SR Goes to the Movies, by Hollis
Alpert
48 Literary Crypt
71 Kingsley Double-Crostic No. 1492
SR/BOOKS
23 Literary Horizons: Granville Hicks
reviews "Henry James," Vols.
II and III, by Leon Edel
24 Democracy Speaks Many Tongues,
by Richard Waverly Poston
25 A Primer of Economic Development,
bv Robert J. Alexander
26 African Profiles, by Ronald Segal;
A Short History of Africa, by
Roland Oliver and J. D. Page;
The Arab Role in Africa, by
Jacques Baulin
27 The Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead
42 The Artist's Voice, by Katharine Kuh
44 Great Drawings of All Time, edited
by Ira Moskowitz
46 Under the Circumstances, by Kimon
Lolos
47 Genius, bv Patrick Dennis
48 Brendan Behan's Island, by Brendan
Behan
49 Cyclone Carry, by Carleton Beals
The SATtlBDAY REVIEW published weekly by Saturday
Review, Inc., 25 W, 45th Street, New York 36,
N. Y. Chairman of the Board, J, R, Cominsky; President,
Norman Cousins; \*ice President and Treasurer,
Nathan Cohn; Vice President and Secretary, W, D,
Patterson; Advertising Director, Robert A. Burghardt;
Promotion Manager, Seth Dennis; Circulation Director,
Ray Goodman: Circulation Consultant, Bert Garraise;
Assistant to the Publisher, Marion Urmy, Subscription $7
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XLV, No, 44, November 3, 1962. Second-Class postage
paid at New York, New York, and at additional mailing
offices. Indexed in the "Reader's Guide to Periodical
Literature" © 1962 by Saturday Review, Inc. All rights
reserved under Berne and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
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