August 1965
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Articles
One Woman's Abortion
In 1965, an anonymous woman described the steps she took to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
Hemingway in Cuba
Robert Manning, the executive editor of The Atlantic, looks back on his 1954 visit with the Nobel Prize–winning author.
"Now--Watch What Happens!"
Birth of a Yacht Club
PHILBROOK PAINE: is a native of Durham, New Hampshire, and the author of REPORT FROM THE VILLAGE which W. W. Norton published in May. This is his first appearance in the ATLANTIC.
Sapphics (And Why Not?) From the Second Aisle Over
Those Crazy Americans
ELINOR GOULDING SMITH has written many books and light articles and has been a contributor to the ATLANTCsince 1943.
New Critic
The Back Roads of England
Record Reviews
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Reader's Choice
Potpourri
Poland
The Middle East
Correction
The Big Money and High Politics of Science
The prospects for excellence in American life, says Harvard historian Donald R. Fleming, depend on the outcome of a struggle to achieve both quality and equality through the distribution of more than $15 billion a year in federal funds for scientific research in the universities. He explains the dilemma and holds out hope that those who solve it will achieve one of the most beneficent revolutions in American history.
Behind the Magnolia Curtain: A Yankee in Mississippi
Born in England thirty-two years ago of a British mother and American father, Mr. Boeth grew up in New York, studied at Andover Academy and Princeton, and entered journalism, first as a reporter for TIME, taler as a free-lance writer and as TV critic and a book reviewer for NEWSWEER.In the spring of 1964 he went to Mississippi to write, and experienced the sensations recounted here.
The Burning: An Atlantic "First"
Jack Cady is a truck gypsy now operating his own rig out of Louisville, Kentucky. He tells us that he hauls his loads to earn enough money to have time for his writing, and if this story is a fair promise, we think he is going places. “I’m a little wacked on safety ,” he writes. “I’ve seen enough dead people. ..
Dr. Zhivago: The Making of a Movie
Filming of MGM’s DR. ZHIVAGOis currently under way in Spain, where director David Lean and actor Omar Sharif, playing the title role,are at work together putting into pictures the screenplay of writer Robert Bolt. In a scries of on-location. interviews with these principals. ATLANTIC editor R. S. Stewart focuses close up on the anatomy of a big movie and its lavish production.
Washington
Eurydice in Darkness
The Young John Marquand
A lifetime friend of John P. Marquand’s, Josephine Driver knew him long before he began to write, for they graduated together from the Newburyport High School in the class of 1910. A frequent visitor to Carzon’s Mill, it was natural for her to remember the boy who was father of the man.
The Genius of Richard Strauss
Born and schooled in Vienna, Erich Leinsdorf, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the last three seasons, has a particular affinity for the music of Bichard Strauss. His immense experience and his intellectual perception give him a unique position in the world of music.
The Window
Big Browns in the Crystal
The founder and headmaster of the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, John Holden has enjoyed as a fringe benefit some of the finest dry-fly fishing to be found in the Southwest.
On Paul Goodman
If Paul Goodman is the aging lion of American radicalism, Michael Harrington, at thirty-seven, is the most risible of his likely successors. THE OTHER AMERICA. Harrington’s derastating examination of America’s poor, is mandatory for field workers in the war on poverty; his new book, THE ACCIDENTAL CENTURY,will be published this month.
Liturgy of Time Past
The Clearest Truth Is in Fiction: Jesse Hill Ford's Novel of the South
Born in Alabama, raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and at the University of Florida, Jesse Hill Ford is the author of one of the most searching turrets ever written ahoid the South, THE LIBERATION OF LORD BYRON JONES, the midsummer Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Ralph McGill of the Atlanta CONSTITUTION evaluates this extraordinary book.
Two Love Poems - To Mary in London
Four years ago this summer a blast from his own shotgun killed Ernest Hemingway and erased, at the age of sixty-two, a life and a talent that had both writ large on our time. The literary legacy he left included many unpublished manuscripts, among them his memoirs of the early days in Paris, which appeared last year as A MOVEABLE FEAST, and the two love poems published here. They were written to Mary Welsh Hemingway, whom he met as a fellow war correspondent and married in 1946. In a note on page 96, Mrs. Hemingway explains the circumstances in which the poems were written. “Second Poem to Mary" was once recorded by Hemingway and has been preserved, together with the fete other recordings of his voice, on an LP entitled ERNEST HEMINGWAY READING, issued this month by Caedmon Records.
Second Poem to Mary
