Author: MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS
Title: The Atlantic Magazine, August 1956 - Sketch of James Thurber on Front Cover
Description: Concord, NH: The Atlantic Monthly Company, 1956. First Edition. Paperback. 96 pages. Features: Reports from Washington, the Middle East, and Japan; The Changing Physician, by Dana W. Atchley; Doctors and Politics, by David D. Rutstein; James Thurber - in conversation with Alistair Cooke; The Smell of Lilies - story by Martha Gellhorn; That Breakfast (poem), by Moore Moran; Southern Cotton and Japan, by David L. Cohn; A Thousand and Two Nights, by Constance Tomkinson; The Young Poets - James Stokely, Ralph Schneebaum, P. Tremayne, Ruth Whitman, James Wright; The Nun and the Dramatist - George Bernard Shaw to the Abbess fo Stanbrook; This Homogenized World, by Sidney W. Dean; Pleasures and Places - Mexico (part I), by Mitchell Goodman. Includes fantastic two-page black and white Cold War photo ad for General Electric illustrating "People's Capitalism" - dramatic photo of nearly 4,000 people at a company shareholder meeting; U.S. Savings Bonds ad inside back cover features Joseph P. Fyffe, who won a fight against the Navy for prepaid travel expenses; Colour ad for Dewar's "White Label" and Ancestor Scotch Whiskies on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Atlantic Magazine, August 1956. Good .

Keywords: 1956 Americana Issues