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: APRIL 14, 1979; Vol. 6, No. 8
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: Children and Cancer: New hope for Survival. Cover photo by Ken Ambrose.

ISSUES:
Children and Cancer: New Hope for Survival by Susan Schiefelbein. Cancer is the leading cause of death among childhood diseases; nonetheless, recent advances permit some youngsters to live a full lifespan. Those who live-- and those who may not--have a compelling story to tell.
Douglas Fraser, Labor's Courtly Rebel by Ron Chernow. The demise of organized labor has rapidly become a truism. But UAW president Doug Fraser refuses to give up the ghost, instead turning back to the political activism of labor's heyday.

THE NEW AMERICAN OUTBACK:
A special section on the star-spangled backcountry and outlandish things to do in it.
Is There Life After Yosemite? by Horace Sutton. Lesser-known nooks preened and protected by the National Park Service.
Twenty Off-Trail Trips for Offbeat Travelers by Susan Ochshorn. A score of outings designed for off-duty astronauts and other hearties.
Watching the Feathers Fly by Jonathan Evan Maslow. Bird-watching reconstituted for warmongers.

PLEASURES:
Lookouts.
Archaeo-Art by Eleanor Munro. On the miniaturization of the world.
Theater by Martin Gottfried. Character-less musical.
The Movies by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Crafted crime.
Books: Mary Gordon on Flannery O'Connor's habitual genius; Alan Harrington discusses John Gribbin's trip through space--time.
Books in Brief.
Trade Winds by Walter Arnold. Bookie monster.

PUZZLES: Double-Crostic No. 169 (page 55); Wit Twister No. 140 (page 5); Literary Crypt No. 128 (page 5).
Letters; Front Runners.
Editorial by N.C. The fallacy of cost-benefit ratio.
Light Refractions by Thomas H. Middleton. Back to the blackboard.
The Back Door by Carll Tucker. Taking our distemperature.
Cartoonists Clarence Brown, Cary Grossman, Nurit Karlin, Jerry Marcus, Henry Martin, John Ruge.

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