May 1958
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Articles
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
London
Albert Camus: A Good Man
Critic and author who was educated at Oxford, CHARLES ROLO was a valued member of the British Information Service during the war. He is the author of WINGATE S RAIDERS, the editor of THE WORLD OF EVELYN WAUGH, and a reader whose tastes are cosmopolitan and discriminating.
Camus at Stockholm: The Acceptance of the Nobel Prize
Who Gets Paid What
Indianapolis Goes to Monza
In a closed circuit race on the steeply banked track at Monza last year, American drivers proved their prowess. But racing under such conditions afforded little basis for comparing the Indianapolis type of car with the road-racing machines of England and the Continent. KEN W. PURDYhas covered many racing events and is the author of KINGS OF THE ROAD.
Singapore
Androcles and the Army
Irish man of letters, Frank O’Connor is loved and admired for the wit and warmth he has shown in his stories. Mr. O’Connor, who has taught several courses on the writing of fiction, is now living in the United Stales.
The Years With Ross
To be a Miracle Man on Harold Ross’s NEW YORKER was a summons that few of those tapped for the position knew enough to refuse. But the miracle proved to be the velocity with which the incumbents came and went. Poets, editors, writers, and men about town were hired, only to be fired, often for nonexistent reasons, after a short and painful interval on the job. This, the seventh part of JAMES THURBER’S series, continues his discussion of the long line of Ross’s Miracle Men.
Public Relations: Good or Bad?
Author of the best-selling book, THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS, VANCE PACKARDturns his attention here to certain operations of some public relations firms which mislead the gullible.
Faith of My Father
How to Catch the Really Large Ones: A New Hampshire Idyl
NEWTON F. TOLMAN. a New England Yankee, is now operating a tree farm in New Hampshire and enjoying the perquisites of a bucolic life, which include fishing in the spring, hunting in the fall, and writing in between times.
Glory
Born in Littleton, Massachusetts, MAURICE FLAGG GREW up on his father’s 200-acre farm, which he left at the age of twenty-one. Since his graduation from Bates College in 1949, Mr. Flagg has been in newspaper and publications work in Washington, D.C. This is an Atlantic “First.”
The Web
The Old House at Senlis
A graduate of Harvard, BERNARD S. CARTER served in both world wars. As a lieutenant colonel he was in Military Intelligence with the Seventh and later with the Third Armies in World War II. Today he is president of Morgan $ Cie., Inc., in Paris and. spends his holidays in the forest town of Senlis.
Gilbert Murray
When Gilbert Murray received the Order of Merit, the London TIMESsaid, “He might equally have earned it by his success in transmitting the light of Hellas to a generation that is forgetting the Greek tongue —or by the noble failure of his long works for peace.” Some of the interesting facets of this great classicist’s career are shown in the portrait by his former student and friend, C. MAURICE BOWRA.Sir Maurice is himself a British classical scholar and literary historian, and since 1951 has been vice chancellor of Oxford University.
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Books: The Editors Like
Reader's Choice
Accent on Living
The Only Husband
It. G. G. PRICE lives in Sussex and has contributed much light writing and literary criticism to PUNCH. He writes for the ATLANTIC on a variety of subjects.
An Eye for an Eye
Fishing Is
Onward the Lemmings
R. P. LISTER is an English free lance whose poetry and light articles appear frequently in the ATLANTIC.
Dream House
JOYCE MUELLING CURRY is a housewife in Brisbane, California, and this is her first appearance in the ATLANTIC.
Record Reviews
Greece: Bargain in Beauty
