John T Bethell Editor (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cover "Happy Birthday, John Harvard".

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 1976 issue of "Harvard Magazine" (Vol. 78 No. 6) edited by John T. Bethell and published by Harvard Magazine, Inc. out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. A quality, glossy-paged magazine measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 76 pages including front and rear covers. With photographs and illustrations, contents include: A Bicentennial fit for a king by Nancy Poland ("Great Britain will celebrate the anniversary of American independence elaborately and with gusto"); Threats to the atmosphere by Michael B. McElroy ("Concern over preserving the ozone layer has raised alarming questions. Among them: Do our basic agricultural policies pose a greater threat to health than aerosol cans ever did?"); A new chance for students who "can't learn" by S. B. Sutton (on dyslexia); Maxim Karolik's American originals by Janet Cox ("How a Russian emigre, armed with Brahmin capital, assembled a distinguished collection of art"); 150 years of history in thirteen weeks by Anthony Astrachan (on the television series "The Adams Chronicles"); two-page poem The Old House (Adams Mansion, Quincy, Massachusetts) by George Caspar Homans; Assassination in the eighteenth century: The dog that did not bark in the night by Franklin L. Ford ("Sandwiched between centuries that saw a host of political murders is one in which there were virtually none. What explains it?").

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the January 1976 issue of "Harvard Magazine" (Vol. 78 No. 5) edited by John T. Bethell and published by Harvard Magazine, Inc. out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. A quality, glossy-paged magazine measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 76 pages including front and rear covers. With photographs and illustrations, contents include: All the world's a bell by Christopher S. Johnson (on the history of bells); "Not noise but love" by Sue Bass (on change ringers); The value of life: two contending policies by Arthur J. Dyck ("If a President were in a coma, how long would we wait to disconnect the respirator?"); special section Winter ("A blizzard of incidental information about 'the season of perfect works'"); [Alexander] Solzhenitsyn: The storm petrel and 'the tender dawn of detente' by Nicholas Daniloff; Where to find a unicorn's horn by Max Hall (on the narwhal: "In the Arctic, attached to a mysterious large animal"); "The hero of two worlds" by Agnes Morgan (on the Marquis de Lafayette). Mailing label to rear cover; very light wear to covers.