The enormous radio / John Cheever Defeat / Kay Boyle Man here keeps getting arrested all the time / John McNulty Down in the reeds by the river / Victoria Lincoln A winter in the country / Robert M. Coates The catbird seat / James Thurber Lady with a lamp / Sally Benson Act of faith / Irwin Shaw The ballet visits the Splendide's magician / Ludwig Bemelmans The middle drawer / Hortense Calisher The dilemma of Catherine Fuchsias / Rhys Davies The nightingales sing / Elizabeth Parsons The second tree from the corner / E.B. White The pleasures of travel / Wendell Wilcox Content with the station / John Andrew Rice A perfect day for bananafish / J.D. Salinger The patterns of love / William Maxwell The lottery / Shirley Jackson Yonder peasant, who is he? / Mary McCarthy The decision / John O'Hara Her bed is India / Christine Weston Inflexible logic / Russell Maloney The falling leaves / Frances Gray Patton My da / Frank O'Connor The four freedoms / Edward Newhouse A view of Exmoor / Sylvia Townsend Warner Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford Mr. Skidmore's gift / Oliver La Farge A short wait between trains / Robert McLaughlin Party at the Williamsons' / Astrid Peters Monsoon / Jerome Weidman Song at twilight / Wolcott Gibbs Run, run, run, run / A.J. Liebling The jockey / Carson McCullers Pigeons en casserole / Bessie Breuer A killing / Roger Angell Goodby, my love / Mollie Panter-Downes Colette / Vladimir Nabokov A clean, quiet house / Daniel Fuchs Village incident / James A. Maxwell De mortuis / John Collier Then we'll set it right / Robert Gorham Davis The mysteries of life in an orderly manner / Jessamyn West Porte-cochère / Peter Taylor The evolution of knowledge / Niccolò Tucci Continued humid / Mark Schorer The baby-amah / Emily Hahn Truth and consequences / Brendan Gill Between the dark and the daylight / Nancy Hale The judgment of Paris / James Reid Parker Mary Mulcahy / Christopher La Farge The bummers / John Powell Under Gemini / Isabel Bolton The improvement in Mr. Gaynor's technique / S.N. Behrman Black secret / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.