August 6, 1949 Issue, THE SATURDAY REVIEW

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- Trade Winds
  Bennett Cerf
  , pp. 10-16
- Footnotes to 1949
  Henry Seidel Canby
  , pp. 17-19
- The Decline of Attention
  Clifton Fadiman
  , pp. 20-23
- The American Malady
  Howard Mumford Jones
  , pp. 24-26
- Time Without a Theme
  Bernard DeVoto
  , pp. 27-28
- Christopher La Farge, p. 29
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  Fitzgerald: "This Side of Paradise" (Review)
  John P. Marquand
  , p. 30
  1. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street" Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis (Review)
  Lewis Gannett
  , p. 31
  1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
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  Hemingway: "A Farewell to Arms" A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway (Review)
  Francis Hackett
  , p. 32
  1. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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  Wilder: "Our Town" Our Town, by Thornton Wilder (Review)
  John Mason Brown
  , p. 33
  1. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
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  S.V. Benet: "John Brown's Body" John Brown's Body, by Stephen Vincent Benet (Review)
  Eugene O'Neill, Jr.
  , p. 34
  1. John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet
- And One Came Running
  Louise Townsend Nicholl
  , pp. 35-37
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  An Ill-Will Tour of the American Mind (Review)
  Louis Kronenberger
  , pp. 38-45
  A Mencken Chrestomathy, by H.L. Mencken
  1. A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
- Remembering the Poets
  William Rose Benet
  , pp. 46-57
  A Reviewer's Vista
- Machines with and without Freedom
  David E. Lilienthal
  , pp. 58-63
- Ideas as Master Switches
  Dixon Wecter
  , p. 64
- History Without Ideas
  Elmer Davis
  , pp. 65-73
- Confessions of A Universalist
  Norman Cousins
  , pp. 74-81
- Books Make the Times
  H.A. Overstreet
  , pp. 82-89
- Editorial, pp. 90-91
- The American Blend
  Howard W. Odum
  , pp. 92-99
- From Babbitt to the Bomb, pp. 100-107
- Exiles and others, pp. 108-111
- The Theme of America, pp. 112-115
- Thunder on the Left, pp. 116-117
- Hollywood and Broadway, pp. 118-119
- The Theme of War, pp. 120-123
- American Tragedy
  John Mason Brown
  , pp. 124-129
- Footnote to a Preface
  Robert E. Sherwood
  , pp. 130-134
- Democracy's Temple
  Maxwell Anderson
  , p. 135
- Credo of A Critic
  Brooks Atkinson
  , pp. 136-137
- Retrospect with Lament & Motto
  Iris Barry
  , pp. 138-141
- Does Our Art Impress Europe?
  James Thrall Soby
  , pp. 142-148
- "No Problems"
  Lyonel Feininger
  , p. 149
- "Viva Tonal" to "FFRR"
  Irving Kolodin
  , pp. 150-155
  Recorded Music Comes of Age
- Book Marks, p. 156
- Flowering of American Music
  Howard Hanson
  , p. 157
- Your Literary I.Q., pp. 158-162
- Literary Crypt No. 320, p. 163
- Public Gardens
  Frances Minturn Howard
  , pp. 164-176
- Librarians' Choice, pp. 177-179
- A Ballad of Reunion
  Babette Deutsch
  , p. 180
- Among Those Present, p. 181
- Advertisers' Index, pp. 182-185
- Double-Crostics No. 802, pp. 186-188