August 1964
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In This Issue
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Articles
George Catlett Marshall
George Catlett Marshall was one of VMI's most celebrated graduates. At the dedication of the George C. Marshall Research Library in Lexington, Virginia, several of his close associates, including President Johnson, Robert Lovett, and General Omar Bradley, paid tribute to his leadership. General Eisenhower in particular spoke with insight of his forthright relations with his former commanding officer during the war years.
The Imitation Meal
The Self-Made Nitwit
W. F. MIKSCHis a free-lance writer living in Newtown, Connecticut. He was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and attended Moravian College.
Notes on a Male Aedes Aegypti Whose Terminalium Failed to Rotate
Not the Laurel
ELIZABETH W. THOMAS is a housewife from Red Bank, New Jersey. This is her first appearance in Accent on Living.
Half-Life Begins at 30
The pseudonymous author here is a scientist whose colleagues, he feels, regard any breach of solemnity in research as unscientific.
Provence
Record Reviews
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Reader's Choice
West Germany
Potpourri
India
Bomb Shop in the Nile: Target Israel
After sixteen years of service as the MANCHESTER GUARDIANcorrespondent in West Germany, TERENCE PRITTIEhas now been recalled to Fleet Street to become the GUARDIAN’S diplomatic correspondent. The following news story is one of the most startling which he uncovered on his way home.
A Bat in the Monastery
What Do They Get From Rock'n'roll?
JEREMY LARNER graduated from Brandeis University with the class of 1958 and was aWoodrowWilson National Fellow at the University of California. His first novel, DRIVE, HE SAID, has won the $10,000 Delta Prize Novel Award and will be published by Dell in the fall.
Tree Watching
Tomorrow's World
Realizing that WALTER LIPPMANN is our foremost political analyst, West Germany’s lively weekly DER SPIEGEL sent one of their editors to Washington to ask those questions which every German in the East and West zones would like to have answered. Taken together, Mr. Lippmann’s answers form a philosophy for tomorrow.
Running Out to Spring
There is every evidence of an increasing interest in ATLANTICpoetry. As an incentive for writers yet unestablished,twice a year we set aside a number of pages in the ATLANTICto be devoted to the work of young poets.
Diminutive Me Sleeps Green
Bridal Luncheon
First Love
Rider
Benny
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, RALPH MALONEY graduated from Browne & Nichols and spent the next two years in the Merchant Marine. He entered Harvard in 1947, was drafted in 1950, and after his tour of duty, went to New York to live. His experience in the field of public relations formed the background of his novel, DAILY BREAD, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1960.
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
Walking
SHEILA BURNFORD is a Canadian doctor’s wife whose tale of three animals, entitled THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY,has become a classic of its kind. This is the second of two essays taken from her new book, THE FIELDS OF NOON,which will be published this month by AtlanticLittle, Brown.
A Rough Map of Greece: Athens by Moonlight
A resourceful traveler, with a love for antiquity, PHOEBE LOU ADAMS, a member of the ATLANTIC staff, conducted a one-woman exploration of the Greek Islands and the mainland in the spring of the year. We published four of her papers in 1963, and this completes a new quartet.
August
Pike Fishing by Bell
ROBERT RUSSELL,who was blinded in an accident at the age of six, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale and a B.Litt. from Oxford, which he attended on a scholarship. An associate professor of English at Franklin and Marshall College, he is currently spending his sabbatical in England, where he is engaged in writing. His autobiography, TO CATCH AN ANGEL,was published by Vanguard.
Pablo Picasso’s Love: La Femme-Fleur
“During the first month after I went to live with Pablo, I never left the house. Most of that time I spent in the studio watching him draw and paint.”
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