May 1947

Articles

• John Goffe's Heritage

  George Woodbury

• End of a Berlin Diary

  William L. Shirer

• This Month

  C. W. M.

• Why Not Try It?

  Arthur Pound

• Break the Heart

  R. J. Hicks

• Book Critic

  Georgie Starbuck Galbraith

• Through the Looking Glass

  Bergen Evans

• Outcast

  Ethel Jacobson

• Birthday Present

  Frances Eisenberg

• How the Book-of-the-Month Club Began

  Henry Seidel Canby

• Open Letter to Leonid Leonov

  Edward F. Eubanks

• Arthur Machen

  Robert Hillyer

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• The Supreme Law of the Land

  Louis L. Jaffe

• The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington

• After Steffens

  George R. Leighton

• The Newest Order

  James H. Powers

• The Life of Edward Fitzgerald

  David Mccord

• Web of Lucifer

  R. E. Danielson

• Miss Condon

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Sonora Sketch Book

  William C. Estler

• Let Me Lie

  William M. Kunstler

• The Far East

• We're on Our Own

  Charles G. Bolté

• Greece-Turkey

• Bosses and Machines

  Spoils? The Boss of the Bronx, friend and confidant of F.D.R., EDWARD J. FLYNN has made politics his profession for the past quarter of a century. In this article he shows how a city machine works in his great district; he defines what he means by “the spoils system”; he demonstrates in detail why the boss system is “ a direct result of the election laws not only in the State of New York but in every state of the Union. ” While bosses are inevitable, he concludes, bad bosses are not, and the boss can survive only by giving the voters what they want.

  Edward J. Flynn

• Exit the Cad

  Gretchen Finletter

• Work in the City, Sleep in the Country: A Commuter Saga

  Ernest Kroll

• Miami-New York, 1944

  Martha Gellhorn

• Man in Transit

  Philippe Le Corbeiller

• The May Walk

  George H. Freitag

• The Carnival

  Phoebe Pierce

• The Soldier Dead Come Home

  David L. Cohn

• What Happened in Finland?

  Laurin Zilliacus

• The Naturalist in the City

  Leonard Dubkin

• South Africa

• The Scientist Fights for Peace

  Louis N. Ridenour

• The Snow Girl

  William R. Shelton

• The Presidential Succession

  Lucius Wilmerding Jr.

• Traveler's Turn

  Louis Kent

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