TITLE: The Saturday Review of Literature
[Each Saturday Review of Literature issue covers books, arts, literature, movies, ideas, music, science, poetry and much more. Many regular features and writers, and most reviews are also essays on the subject at hand. ALL the latest books had to have an ad in The Saturday Review! ]
ISSUE DATE: February 1973; VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1; JANUARY 20, 1973, THE SOCIETY
CONDITION: RARE edition, standard magazine size, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: The Swelling of the Presidency.

UP FRONT:
LIFE IN THE GREAT INDOORS: Is the high-rise campground an idea whose time has come?
MUGGING THE PRESIDENT BY STEVE KLINE -- A thirty-second "photograph opportunity" at the White House is no place to learn the social graces.
GAMES TEXANS PLAY: OIL VS. FOOTBALL BY GARY CARTWRIGHT -- Fundamental values collide when an old wildcatter threatens to exercise his mineral lease and drill on the fifty-yard line of the oil town's football field.
THERE'LL ALWAYS BE A CALIFORNIA BY ANTHONY BAILEY -- A recently repatriated Englishman reminisces about his good life in Southern California and why it made Mother England seem a bit of a hag.

FEATURES:
BELIEVE IT OR NOT! EVEN THOUGH ROBERT RIPLEY DIED IN 1949, HIS FEATURE STILL APPEARS IN 328 NEWSPAPERS IN 38 COUNTRIES!!! BY WILLIAM ALLEN -- And you thought the feature disappeared with your childhood. Researcher Norbert Pearlroth and cartoonist Paul Frehm -- who between them have worked eighty-six years for Ripley's -- know otherwise.

A MAFIOSO CASES THE MAFIA CRAZE BY VINCENT TERESA -- "Right now I think there are more books on the Mafia floating around than Joe Namath signature footballs. Everyone's making money on the mob," declares the highest-ranking Mafia figure ever to turn state's evidence. Mr. Teresa then goes on to present a Mafia lord's review of the recent rash of Mafia films and literature. Some, he likes; some, he'd like to rub out.

THE SWELLING OF THE PRESIDENCY BY THOMAS E. CRONIN -- The number of government employees working directly under the President of the United States has grown an alarming 20 per cent in the last four years and now approaches the size of the State Department's domestic bureaucracy. A White House watcher weighs the consequences of the burgeoning "Presidential Establishment."

THE MID-CAREER CRISIS BY KENN ROGERS -- Why, in their mid-thirties, do so many people suddenly crack up, break down, let their careers go smash, or lash out at those closest to them? An expert offers an explanation.

PSYCHIC FARMING BY MARTY JEZER -- "How I joined the Total Loss farming commune in Vermont after dropping out of grad school, traveling, marrying, divorcing, and parading for peace. And how I was miserable, quit the commune, returned, and learned to love the people, apples, berries, cheese, peach wine, carrot bread, and the cow -- while paying off the mortgage."

SR: REVIEWS:
Politics & Government -- What your congressman can do for you besides make laws By Robert C. Zelnick.
Business & Economics -- The coming revolt of the home buyer -- and how to join it By Suzann Lancashire.
Lifestyles -- How to live well at 30,000 ft. By Nancy Lyon.
The Law -- The lengthening list of new tenant rights laws By D. Steven Rutkus.
Communications -- Newsletters:For the Connoisseur of Information By Phil Tracy.

BOOKS -- REVIEWS:
The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan By Daniel P. Moynihan Reviewed by Michael Harrington.
The Best and the Brightest By David Halberstam Reviewed by Eliot Fremont-Smith.
SR Recommends.
Soldier By Anthony B. Herbert with James T. Wooten Reviewed by Edward L. King.
American Civilization: A Portrait From the Twentieth Century Edited by Daniel J. Boorstin Reviewed by Benjamin DeMott.
The Royal Griffin: Frederick Prince of Wales, 1707 -- 1751 By John Walters. George the Third By Stanley Ayling. King George III By John Brooke Reviewed by Peter Stansky.

FILM BY THOMAS MEEHAN: He May Be the Greatest Filmmaker of All Time. (Ingmar Bergman)
MUSIC BY IRVING KOLODIN -- A New Deal for "The Queen of Spades"
TRAVEL -- Florence Blooms in Winter By Herbert R. Lottman.

EDITORIALS: By Ronald P. Kriss
The Truman Legacy -- Well, was he near great, as many reputed historians maintain, or the villainous architect of the Cold War, as some now insist?
The Nixon Prospect -- Between Election Day and Inauguration Day the President behaved in a manner that does not bode well for his second term.

GAMES: Literary Crypt and Wit Twister; Kingsley Double-Crostic No. 2023.

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