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April/May 1984

14 years ago By admin

Volume

35

Issue

3

The Old Class of Mine Reconstruction Hollywood Witness One Day’s Difference One Day’s Difference

Stories published from "April/May 1984"

Good Neighbors

Authored by: David Davidson

Forty years ago it was Nazis, not communists, we wanted to keep out of Latin America. A veteran of that propaganda war recalls our efforts to bring American values to a bewildered Ecuador.

Targets Of Opportunity

Authored by: Geoffrey C. Ward

MATTERS OF FACT

LOST PLEASURES

Authored by: Edward Sorel

Sometimes life in the past really was better

THE BANKING STORY

Authored by: Martin Mayer

Banking as we’ve known it for centuries is dead, and we don’t really know the consequences of what is taking its place. A historical overview.

The ‘Holland’ Surfaces

Authored by: Richard F. Snow

The U.S. Navy’s first submarine was scrapped half a century ago. But now we have been given a second chance to visit a boat nobody ever expected to see again.

A Tree Grows In America

Authored by: Oliver E. Allen

Banished from public view in our cities, this two-hundred-year-old import is alive and well behind the scenes

HEMINGWAY & FITZGERALD: THE COST OF BEING AMERICAN

Authored by: Alfred Kazin

The work of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald virtually defined what it meant to be American in the first half of this century

Avery

Authored by: The Editors

A gathering of little-known drawings from Columbia
University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library illuminates two centuries of American building

Take My Wife — Prithee

Authored by: David Sherwood

Happy marriages may have been all alike in the eighteenth century, but the unhappy ones
fought it out in the newspapers

Truman Vs. MacArthur

Authored by: Walter Karp

When the President fired the general, civilian control of the military faced its severest test in our history

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