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November 1951 Issue
November 1951 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • The Attack on Yale
    McGeorge Bundy
  • Tourist in Haiti
    Caskie Stinnett
  • A Hollywood Child Star's Garden of Verses, V: Apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson
    Edmud J. Kiefer
  • The Larchcrest Code
    Weare Holbrook
  • Words Without Music
    Edwin O’Connor
  • Home Morale
    Hughes Mearns
Poem

A Hollywood Child Star's Garden of Verses, V: Apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson

By Edmud J. Kiefer
November 1951 Issue
Saved Stories
by EDMUD J. KIEFER
THE world is so full of a number of things
But none with the bang that publicity brings.