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September 1960 Issue
September 1960 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.
  • How Good is Government Medical Care?
    Osler L. Peterson
  • Caesar's Meat
    J. Frank Dobie
  • The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
  • Elmer, Raymond, and I
    David Cornel Dejong
  • My Grandfather's Ghost
    R. P. Lister
  • Holy Tarrier
    Georgie Starbuck Galbraith
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Holy Tarrier

By Georgie Starbuck Galbraith
September 1960 Issue
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When the world’s most punctual man Meets the world’s most inveterate tarrier, Fate chuckles and starts to plan How he’ll fall in love and marry her!