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8 picks · 1957–1964

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THE INLAND SEA
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PROFILE of Long Island Sound and an account of a sail cruise along its shores. Milford, ten years ago seemed wonderfully unchanged from older days, and the…

I-THE INLAND SEA.
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PROFILE of Long Island Sound. Last summer the writer and two companions took a two-week trip around the Sound in a cruising sailboat. A journal of the trip…

II-PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
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PROFILE of Pilgrim State Hospital, largest mental institution in the world, located near Brentwood, L.I., directed by Dr. Henry Brill. On an average day 82…

I-PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
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PROFILE of Pilgrim State Hospital, world's largest mental institution, near Brentwood, L.I., under jurisdiction of N.Y. State Dept. of Mental Hygiene. …

HOW DOES IT COME TO BE SO?
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PROFILE of Robert K. Merton, professor of sociology at Columbia University. Humanists have for some time derided sociologists for their tendency to cement …

The Case of Flight 320
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Flight 320, an American Airlines plane that overshot the runway at LaGuardia Field & plunged into the East River, tells about the …

POLYMERS EVERYWHERE
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PROFILE of Herman F. Mark, a Viennese, professor of organic chemistry at the Bklyn Polytechnic Inst. & an authority on polymer chemistry. During the war he…

A GIANT IN HER FIELD
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PROFILE of Dr. Helaine Newstead, Arthurian scholar, and a professor of Hunter College. Dr. Newstead is an extraordinarily versatile linguist, who is …