This issue celebrates quite an accomplishment in the field of literary magazines—a fiftieth anniversary! 1953! Quite a year! Of course, some other things took place-Queen Eliza­beth's coronation, the first ascent of Mt. Everest, the discovery of DNA, and while it might seem a bit presumptuous to mention the Review's birth in the same breath, because it has survived for so long in a field where that rarely happens, why not?

The undersigned enjoys lists of this sort, so here are some of the other highlights of 1953. Among the literary accom­plishments were the publications of James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March (which won the National Book Award the following year), Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451. William S. Burrough's Junkie, andJ.D. Salinger's Nine Stories. Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer. Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot opened at the Babylon Theater on the Left Bank. Lawrence Ferlinghetti opened up C…