Description
The magazine is in good condition. It is a complete copy but shows moderate signs of age and wear, such as corner creases, spine stress, or light surface wear. The photos show the exact item you will receive. Please review all pictures for full condition details. Combined shipping is available. Each issue ships in a protective plastic sleeve.
Note: The content list below is derived from the issue's directory. Please Note: The only pinups included are those depicted in the photos.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
To Fathers in Wartime … Boystown’s beloved Father offers a prescription for the growing malady of juvenile delinquency … Rt. Rev. Msgr. E. J. Flanagan — 44
Visit on the Nazi Front … Reviewing Goebbels’ hysterical propaganda in the newspapers of Germany and German-occupied countries … Curt Riess — 46
Preview in Dreamland … Hundreds of Britons, emulating J. W. Dunne, tried recording their dreams and proved they saw into the future … Keith Monroe — 55
Director Without Schmaltz … Hollywood’s most versatile director doesn’t pretend to be an artist, he just knows he likes stories that move … Sidney Carroll — 58
Roots in the Soil … It gives a city man solid pleasure to crumble in his fingers the loam of his own farm—provided it is good loam … Donald McGuinness — 73
They’ll Fly for the Navy … Average American lads, well endowed with daring and co-ordination, become superlative pilots at Glenview Field … Nick Kearns — 76
Nine Out of Ten Can Fly … If you can pass these simple tests in your own living room, the chances are you’re fit to be a pilot … Stanley Washburn, Jr. — 94
The Eagle’s Advocate … Author of The Coming Battle of Germany, William Ziff, affirms with Seversky bombers alone can win the war … Robert W. Marks — 105
Mitchell Memorial … Gen. Mitchell’s cause will remain lost and our aircraft ineffectual till we establish a separate air force … Alexander P. deSeversky — 141
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury … Comments and Retorts Discourteous — 12
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire … What they do while the ideas incubate … Gilbert Seldes — 129
The Lively Arts: Who Wants a Noble Movie? … Retort to Mrs. Pearl Buck … Lawton Mackall — 130
Potables: Joys of Holiday Moisture … How to get an edge on St. Nick … George Jean Nathan — 192
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments … On the moot subject of Saroyan … William Lyon Phelps — 198
Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf … John L. Sullivan and Chinese Jades … Iles Brody — 206
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette … Gastronomic and romantic memories of World War I … Iles Brody — 206
FICTION
The Greatest Belief of All … He told the Stranger he and his wife lacked the hope to go on, that all of Europe suffered from the same illness … Manuel Komroff — 35
The Pod of a Weed … The boys were the city’s drabs, truants, thieves, morons and nobody expected him to teach them anything … J. J. Des Ormeaux — 56
Life with a Dream Girl … The brain specialist had advised a trip to Vienna but he was lost and lonely there—till he found his soul mate … Walter Duranty — 61
Bear with an Admiral … Venus warden complained that after too much meat and rum, the ship’s mascot got out of hand … Gilbert Hackforth-Jones — 62
The Frailty of Minnie … The sin had been sinned, the shame had been shamed, so righteous Old Jehua lashed the neighs of the other horses … Hugh S. Robertson — 74
One Lone Guerrilla … Protecting leaves had made this starred, impotent old man with his ancient gun the Nazis’ fearless opponent … Joseph Harrington — 85
The Beauty Part of a Democracy … Like Smoot told the conscientious objector, in America they could hate each other and not get mad … Louis Paul — 86
The Ordeal of Mephi … This maimed, tortured, ape-like creature never dreamed he would be the hero of a strange and wild adventure … Ernest Henderson — 88
The Poor Rich Uncle … When dwarfed, miserly Uncle Roby died, someone said they’d only need a pigeonhole to store his soul … Robert Gibbons — 93
Death Has Two Good Eyes … The seven brothers swore they’d go over the hill and bring their father back from his unlawful wife, dead or alive … Jesse Stuart — 118
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Cover Design … Christmas with a Bang … Modeled by L. S. Soderstrom — 39
The Shape of Things to Come … Revenge with a brush … Drawings by Derso & Kelen — 41
Nativity of a New World … Commentary by Raymond Gram Swing … Painting by Salvador Dali — 59
“Land of Hope and Glory” … A British Freedom Song … Painting by William Pachner — 60
Kerry Blue Terrier … It’s the Irish in him … Color Photograph by Henry Waxman — 63
A Portfolio of Sporting Prints … For the devotees of the manly arts … Color Photographs by Hurrell — beginning on 63
Janet Blair … In Columbia’s Something to Shout About … Verse by Phil Stack; Painting by Varga — 91
A Portfolio of American Prints … For the enhancement of a man’s den … beginning on 121
Feminine Octet of United Nations … Photographs by Hurrell … beginning on 131
A Curious Miscellany of Prints … Embracing diverse interests … Portrait by Vuchinich — 141
Introducing America’s Half-Honored Prophet, Billy Mitchell … Painting by Alexander Leydenfrost — 142
Esquire’s Portfolio of Gift Suggestions … Color Photographs by Howard S. Redell … beginning on 169
SPORTS
The Esquire Sports Poll … On sports as a tonic for war nerves, the killing of antlerless deer and the wearing of the red … Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon — 106
Martyrs of the Grid … Arguing football officials are not bums, robbers or lime-light hogs but honest guys who love the game … Austen Lake — 108
The Sporting Scene … Twitting Tunney about athletic boondoggling in his own (Shakespearean) language and noting Nazi effect on sports … Herb Graffis — 117
Crow’s Nest Basketball … There’s something wrong with basketball referees’ environs, and hoisting them on platforms may be the answer … Jean F. Eberhart — 120