June 1945
In This Issue
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Articles
The Sisters and the Seabees
Spring Morning
You, Too, Can Be Blue and Croon in June
Strong Coffee
The Old Mandarin "Translations From Chinese"
The Peripatetic Reviewer
American Chronicle
The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden
Victoria Through the Looking Glass
The Open City
Pleasant Valley
Latin America
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
European Front
April Elegy: April 15 - April 12
Russia and Ourselves
To the Finish: A Letter From Iwo Jima
Hearing Is Believing
Next of Kin
Emily Dickinson
A Sketching Trip
The Trees
I Came Home Early
Poems
Liberian Road: White Man's Magic
Getting Rid of the Women
The Pacific War
Kidnaping a General
Two Performances
Bats
Sterne and Swift
The Egg and I
BETTY MACDONALD was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1908. The daughter of a mining engineer, she lived all over the place — in Mexico City, then in Idaho, then in Butte, Montana, and finally in Seattle, where she came to rest long enough to do her schooling. She graduated from the Roosevelt High School and entered the University of Washington, intending to major in art. Instead, she fell in love and married. She was nineteen, Bob was thirtyone. With a capital investment of $450 they elected to become chicken farmers on the Northwest Coast. Betty had learned resourcefulness from her engineering father, but what she knew about chickens could be stuffed into an average-sized thimble. So her story begins.
