Wisdom Magazine Editions 25-39 1958-1964
Editions 25-39 were published between 1958 and 1964. Issue 25 Pablo Picasso was the start of volume 3 in May 1958. By this time Wisdom Magazine was no longer a monthly magazine. Only 2 additional issues were published in 1958. 5 issues were published in 1959. Only 3 issues in 1960. 2 issues in 1961, only one issue in 1962 and the final issue 39 wasn’t published until sometime in 1964. Starting with issue 30 through issue 39, the format was changed from a magazine to a hard covered publication. The final issue published in 1964 returned to the magazine format.
Table of Contents
- 25. Pablo Picasso
- 26. Ernest Hemingway
- 27. Arnold Toynbee
- 28. Felix Frankfurter
- 29. Pearl S. Buck
- 30. William Benton
- 31. Carl Sandburg
- 32. Walt Disney
- 33. Great Books of the Western World
- 34. Nehru of India
- 35. Thomas Edison
- 36. John Harvard
- 37. Vic Tanny
- 38. Robert Frost
- 39. The Wisdom of the Bible
25. Pablo Picasso
Volume 3 Number 25 May 1958
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 25:
Pablo Picasso – M. Raynal
From The Wisdom Of … – Pablo Picasso
Picasso Paintings – Portfolio
Wisdom Of The Ages – Selected Authors
The Bahamas – Travelogue
Dvorak-Bohemian Composer – Hamilton
Antonin Dvorak – Pictorial Essay
Analysis Of Genius – B. Bliven
Genius And Prolonged Illness – E. Mayer
What Is An Intellectual – R. Kirk
Answering Intelligently – E. W. Walpole
George Santayana – R. Butler
On Friendship – G. Santayana
Alexander The Great – C. Robinson, Jr.
Wit Of Wisdom – Selected Authors
26. Ernest Hemingway
Volume 3 Number 26 June 1958
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 26:
Ernest Hemingway – J. Atkins
From The Wisdom Of … – Hemingway
Age of Achievement – C. W. Hunnicutt
Webster And Dictionaries – E. Thompson
How To Read A Dictionary – M. J. Adler
Uses Of A Dictionary – Manly & Rickert
Dictionary Adventures – O. Shepard
Dictionary Is Created – Merriam-Webster
Webster’s New Dictionary – A Summary
Live To Be One Hundred – R. W. Burnett
Birth Of Jazz Music – G. Chase
Virtues Of Humility – R. L. Hudson
Idealist And Realist – L. D. Baldwin
Learning To Concentrate – A. L. Logan
Your Reading Ability – J. H. Wise
The Sabbath – A. J. Heschel
Troubles Are Teachers – C. E. Macartney
Pleasures Of Laziness – F. C. Kelly
The Happy Life – Seneca
27. Arnold Toynbee
Volume 3 Number 27 September 1958
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 27:
Toynbee-Master Historian – T. Lean
A Study Of History – A. J. Toynbee
Civilization In Pictures – A Pictorial
What I Have Tried To Do – A. J. Toynbee
From The Wisdom Of … – A. J. Toynbee
Imagination And The Writer – M. Lewis
Words And Emotions – R. H. Thouless
Evidences Of Education – N. M. Butler
New York-World Mecca – J. Barzun
Portrait And Painter – M. Grosser
Listening To Modern Music – D. Taylor
Beauty Born Of Storms – A. Rutledge
Will Power – E. H. Sloane
Overcoming Fear – J. J. B. Morgan
Why Good People Suffer – R. L. Hudson
28. Felix Frankfurter
Volume 3 Number 28 January 1959
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 28:
Felix Frankfurter – A. Lewis
Bold Experiment – F. Frankfurter
Supreme Court Story – J. Barbar
American Law – H. S. Commager
Lawyers, Laymen, Law – M. Radin
Drama In The High Court – A. Lewis
Ignorance Of Law – B. Evans
Oliver Wendell Holmes – F. Frankfurter
From The Wisdom Of … – Frankfurter
Music And Moods – Howard & Lyons
Faith And Mountains – T. S. Kepler
Language – Manly & Rickert
Hypnotism – S. J. Van Pelt
Rumors – A Summary
How To Detect Propaganda – A Summary
Reporting – Snyder & Morris
Minds With Antennae – K. I. Brown
Liberal Education – R. Livingstone
29. Pearl S. Buck
Volume 3 Number 29 May 1959
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge For Lifetime Learning and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 29:
My Philosophy For Living – P. S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck-Author – A Biography
From The Wisdom Of … – P. S. Buck
Guiding The Gifted Child – P. A. Witty
Help For The Slow Learner – T. Newland
How To Judge Encyclopedias – A. J. Pratt
Men Of Compton’s – G. S. Ford
From The Wisdom Of … -Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia
Learning-Life’s Great Adventure
Galileo-Father Of Modern Physics
Developing A Good Memory
Reference Books – Keys To Knowledge
On Being A Mature Person
The Art Of Conversation
How Do You Spell It
Medicine, Doctors And Specialists
Emotion-Life’s Driving Force
Figures Of Speech
30. William Benton
Volume 3 Number 30 June 1959
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge For Lifetime Learning and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 30:
The Story Of Encyclopedia Britannica
Benton Of – Britannica – A Biography
From The Wisdom Of … – W. Benton
From The Wisdom Of … – Encyclopedia Britannica
Art-The Creation Of Beauty
Liberal Education And Modern Women
What Is An Educated Man
History And Historical Events
Slang – Informal Expression
Rhetoric-Art Of Persuading People
Diagnosis And The Human Body
Music Of The 20th Century
Immortal Philosophers On Immortality
The Psychology Of Thinking
Intelligence – What Is It
Faith – Reaching Beyond The Known
Ego – Magnifying One’s Self
Process Of Reading
Personality – How It Is Developed
Common Sense – Ordinary Intelligence
Longevity – Prolongation Of Life
31. Carl Sandburg
Volume 3 Number 31 August 1959
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge For Lifetime Learning and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 31:
Carl Sandburg – A. Jenkins
From The Wisdom Of … – C. Sandburg
Story Of The Encyclopedia Americana
From The Wisdom Of … – Encyclopedia Americana
Appreciating Art And Artists
Raphael-Master Painter
Education Throughout The Ages
The Meaning Of Liberal Education
Handwriting – Evaluating Character
Fatigue -Why We Get Tired
Sleep And Dreams
The Aging Of Man
Greece – The Cradle Of Civilization
Enjoying The Beauty Of Music
The Meaning Of Character
Why People Laugh
Psychiatry And The Human Mind
The Psychology Of Intelligence
Woman In A Man’s World
Introduction To Food And Festivity
The World Of Ballet
32. Walt Disney
Volume 3 Number 32 December 1959
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge For Lifetime Learning and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 32:
Walt Disney – A Biography
Animated Cartoon World Of Disney
Animated Feature World Of Disney
The Art Of Animation – W. Disney
Live-Action World Of Walt Disney
Disneyland – Disney’s Magic Kingdom
From The Wisdom Of … – W. Disney
The Story Of The Book of Knowledge
From The Wisdom Of … – The Book Of Knowledge
King Arthur
Your Child’s I.Q.
Wonder Questions
How Man Learned To Write
Races Of Mankind
What Is A Classic
Nature’s Animal Kingdom
The Prairie Dog
Chemistry In Today’s World
Man And His Universe
The Brain
Good Citizen In A Free Society
33. Great Books of the Western World
Volume 3 Number 33 March 1960
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge For Lifetime Learning and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 33:
Great Conversation – R.M. Hutchins
Reading Great Books – M.J. Adler
The Syntopicon – M.J. Adler
What Is An Idea – M.J. Adler
The 102 Great Ideas – M.J. Adler
From the Wisdom Of… – Hutchins
From the Wisdom Of… – Adler
And
Wisdom Of The Great Books
Aristophanes Thucydides Aquinas
Rabelais Boswell Lavoisier
Hippocrates Galen Gilbert
Machiavelli Fourier Faraday
Euclid Galileo Freud
Hegel Archimedes Harvey
Melville Apollonius Spinoza
Darwin Nicomachus Huygens
Marx Lucretius Ptolemy
Sterne Fielding Engels
Tolstoy Copernicus Smith
Dostoevsk Kepler Montesquieu
James Plotinus Gibbon
34. Nehru of India
Volume 3 Number 34 June 1960
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge For Lifetime Learning and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 34:
India Today And Tomorrow – J. Nehru
Women Of India – J. Nehru
Children Of India
Rural India
The Hindu View – S. Radhakrishnan
From The Wisdom Of … – Hinduism
From The Wisdom Of … – Buddha
Agriculture And India’s Economy
Industrialization In India
Educating 400 Million Minds
The Literature Of India
Music And Dance
Art And Sculpture Of India
Travel In India – W. O. Douglas
Gandhi – Modern Saint – J. Nehru
From The Wisdom Of Nehru-Liberator Of India – M. Gandhi
From The Wisdom Of … – J. Nehru
35. Thomas Edison
Volume 3 Number 35 November 1960
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge For Lifetime Learning and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 34:
Education – A New Era Begins
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Films For Teaching And Learning
The Unique Contribution
Learning About Animals – Animal Life
Birds Are Interesting – Living Things
Learning About Flowers – Plant Life
Children Of Many Lands
People Of Many Lands
Exploring The Universe – Astronomy
Science – Chemistry, Physics, Biology
History – Builders Of America
American Indians Of Today
American Government
The Renaissance – World History
National Gallery Of Art
Listening To Good Music
Literature – Language Arts
The Humanities – Great Literature
Today’s Teachers
Thomas A. Edison – A Biography
From The Wisdom Of … – T. A. Edison
36. John Harvard
Volume 3 Number 36 February 1961
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge For Lifetime Learning and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 36:
The Story Of Harvard University
The Story Of The Harvard Classics
Authors Of The Harvard Classics
And
Wisdom Of The Harvard Classics
Aristotle Augustine. Swift
Plato Chaucer Carlyle
Socrates Dante Hume
Homer Cellini Berkeley
Sophocles Cervantes Locke
Euripides a Kempis Hobbes
Plutarch Kant Mill
Epictetus Goethe Shakespeare
Aeschylus Rousseau Newton
Herodotus Pascal Milton
Aurelius Montaigne Bacon
Cicero Moliere Johnson
Virgil Descartes Scott
Tacitus Voltaire Stevenson
Confucius Hugo Browning
Bronte Byron Keats
Shelley Dickens Tennyson
37. Vic Tanny
Volume 3 Number 37 May 1961
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge For Lifetime Learning and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 37:
Your Heart And How It Works
Hypertension And Emotions
Why Most People Are Tired
Nutrition And Weight Control
Heart Attack – How To Avoid It
Dr. Paul Dudley White – A Biography
From The Wisdom Of … – P. D. White
ABC’s Of Heart Attack – P. D. White
Coronary Thrombosis – P. D. White
Importance Of Exercise – P. D. White
The President On Physical Fitness
Outdoor World Of Physical Activity
Physical Fitness And Long Life
A History Of Physical Education
Vic Tanny – A Biography
From The Wisdom Of … -V. Tanny
Wonderful World Of Physical Fitness
38. Robert Frost
Volume 3 Number 38 1962
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge For Lifetime Learning and Education
Articles and table of contents in edition 38:
Robert Frost – Great American Poet
From The Wisdom Of Robert Frost And
The Great Thoughts Of The World’s Greatest Minds
Einstein Toynbee Durant
Maugham Sandburg Emerson
Tennyson Edison Schweitzer
Sarnoff Shaw Disney
Whitman Hutchins Adler
Churchill Hemingway Franklin
Baruch Frankfurter Picasso
Lincoln Shelley Longfellow
Michelangelo Da Vinci Twain
Buddha Fenelon Dickens
Seneca Darwin Gandhi
Napoleon Nehru DeMille
Russell Keller Roosevelt
Rubinstein Heifetz Pope Pius XII
Freud Jesus Confucius
Voltaire Socrates Goethe
Aristotle Johnson Bacon
39. The Wisdom of the Bible
Volume 3 Number 39 1964
Tagline: The Magazine of Knowledge For Lifetime Learning and Education
This was the last issue of Wisdom Magazine published sometime in 1964.
Articles and table of contents in edition 39:
Our Bible – How It Came To Us
Our Ancient Civilizations
Bible Before The Invention Of Printing
Gutenberg – Printer Of The First Bible
Bible After The Invention Of Printing
23rd Psalm – Comparative Versions
The Story Of The Old Testament
Wisdom Of The Old Testament
The Story Of The New Testament
Wisdom Of The New Testament
What The Bible Can Do For Us
Great Writers And The Bible
Great Poets And The Bible
The Bible In Music And Art
How To Read The Bible
Tribute To The American Bible Society
God’s Word In Man’s Language
Distributing The Bible To The World
The Bible For The Blind
The Old And New Testament Books
Prayers And Benedictions Of The Bible
Where To Look In The Bible