August 1975
In This Issue
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Articles
Party of One: Yours Sincerely
Whatever Happened to Sam Spade? The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction
“I once lost a pregnant Indian who was wearing a red blanket and a feather in her hair, in Macy’s. She just evaporated. A two-hundred-pound Indian.” A true detective story, as told by one of a dying breed to a young reporter who wondered what the real-life counterparts of Philip Marlowe are doing these days.
A Day for Addie Joss
It happened sixty-odd years ago: a benefit game for the widow of a Cleveland pitcher whose name is seldom heard today. But the memory of Addie Joss brought together most of baseball’s early and legendary heroes.
Taiwan
An August Evening
The Last Mohican Between Khabarovsk and Moscow
Sand Roads
Why Johnny Can't Run: And Other Gym Class Scandals
Physical education as taught in thousands of American public schools is all too often demoralizing and counterproductive. An author-teacher-physical culturist outlines a radical alternative to the old-time gym class and competitive athletics.
Bridge of Music, River of Sand
Dour Flicka
Paying for College
Many independent colleges and universities will have to shut down unless new sources of funding are found. This problem, argued Boston University President John Silber in the May Atlantic, is related to the rapid growth of statesupported university systems, generously financed by tax dollars and duplicating, on occasion, facilities and programs already available at the independent schools. What follows is a sampling of the many responses to President Silber’s article — most of them edited for reasons of space and variety.
Edinburgh: A City Awakens
Though aspects of Edinburgh seem changeless, the great Scottish city has moved forcefully and for the most part engagingly into the 1970s. Orderly and stable in a world racked by uncertainty and urban ills, the city is becoming for some Americans a beguiling alternative as a place in which to work and live. An expert traveler and city-watcher tells why.
The Peripatetic Reviewer: Curtain Speech
Witches and Witch-Hunts
Culture Watch
Ragtime
The Annotated Dracula
The Surface of Earth
Madame Catherine
Madame Catherine
Behind a Mask
Shipwreck
William Shakespeare
Voices of the Rainbow
Slammer
See the Old Lady Decently
Power With Grace