Educator, biographer, and poet. HOWARD MUMFORD JONES is a native of Michigan who has taught at the University of Texas, at Chapel Hill, and at the University of Michigan. Since 1936 he has been Professor of English at Harvard, and he is the author of many boohs and articles. Atlantic readers will recall his part in the debate on “The Withering of New England in our April, 1950, issue, but he now discerns a new social phenomenon which seems to be national rather than regional in scope.

The Atlantic in Paris: Dispatch #2