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March 4, 1950

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Featured Pick

the sky line

THE PLIGHT OF THE PROSPEROUS

Lewis Mumford

THE SKY LINE about upper-class apartments in New York City.

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a reporter at large

OUR SON

Katharine T. Kinkead

fiction

Will You Be My Authentic Regimental Or Divisional Valentine?

E. J. Kahn