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TABLE OF CONTENTS

THIS MAN’S WORLD

• THE LOST CHRISTMAS — Everything is changed and new these years, even Christmas — Paul Gallico — 83

ARTICLES

• HOW TO SURVIVE IN A DEPARTMENT STORE — Civil defense just won’t help you — Coskie Stinnett — 90

• MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN CLUB — New York’s gay, raffish Tenderloin — Samuel Hopkins Adams — 133

• STATE STREET: WORLD SHOPPING CENTER — To the music of two million dollars a day — Emmett Dedmon — 139

• HOW TO RUIN CHRISTMAS — Or, Whatever Happened to Santa’s Little Helpers? — J. D. Ratcliff — 143

• COIN DEALER TO KINGS — Sometimes a money’s value depends on a reign’s shortness — Arthur D. Morse — 241

FICTION

• SIC TRANSIT — The start was fast, and for a long time the sailing was easy — Ben Hecht — 87

• NO ROOM — It wasn’t a Grand Hotel, but its story is still a best seller — Dan Brunfield — 92

• A CLASH OF BELLS — A fearful tale their music told — David E. Walker — 105

• THE LITTLE PEOPLE — They belonged to him, but he couldn’t even brag about them — George Frazier — 110

• AMIGO HELIOTROPO — The day of miracles came just in time — Félix Martí Ibáñez — 112

• BLAZE OF GLORY — It’d be heaven if his score were one under par — Jock Carroll — 125

• COME GENTLE SPRING — Another growing season would bring more misery — Jesse Stuart — 126

• DOG BOY — He had all the attributes of his playmate but a sense of direction — Oliver La Farge — 134

• DASHED AWKWARD — You wouldn’t think she’d remarry, after all that happiness — Robert Fontaine — 141

• INCIDENT IN THE HUNTING SEASON — He could only deal with men weaker than himself — Roderick Lull — 232

PICTORIAL

• LA MORT BLANCHE — Keep your eye on the épée — Photography by Maxwell Coplan — 94

• BAD MEN’S GUNS — From Dick Turpin to Billy the Kid — Painting by Robert J. Lee — 108

• SITTING PRETTY — Framework for beauty — Photography by Fernand Fonssagrives — 128

• ESQUIRE’S LADY FAIR — Janis Paige — Photography by Ormond Gigli — 135

• ESQUIRE’S AVENUES OF FASHION — State Street, Chicago — Water color by Juliette Kida Renault — 137

WEARABLES

• DARK LIGHTENING: CHRISTMAS CARRIAGE TRADE — For this season of the year, we give you presence — 145

SUPPLEMENT

• THE MURDER OF THE MAN WHO WAS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE — Is this the key? — Robert L. Heilbroner — 115

GIFTS

• ESQUIRE’S CHRISTMAS SHOPPER — Forty-five gift-packed photographs of suggestions — 24

• MODEL GIFTS — Things that papa can play with, all Christmas long — 148

• ONE-RING TOY CIRCUS — Strike up the band and let the show go on — 150

• THE ART OF GIVING — For the hunter and the hunted … six pages of gifts — 151
  (For list of places displaying these gifts, see page 246)

EDIBLES

• THE GENTLEMANLY ART OF COOKING WITH COGNAC — Steak Diane to Crêpes Suzette — Denis Plimmer — 106

TRAVEL

• VACATION NOW — Jamaica made easy: Planes, ships, hotels, sight-seeing — 59

• JAMAICA — It has all things, plus a tercentenary celebration lasting through 1955 — Richard Joseph — 146

DEPARTMENTS

• Publisher’s Page: WARNING RE PAGE 115 — 6

• Editorial: BLITZEN ON 63RD STREET — 8

• The Sound and the Fury — 15

• Backstage with Esquire — 74

• Esquire on Record — 76

• Dining In/Out with Esquire — 78

• Esquire’s Fashion Finds — O. E. Schoeffler — 80

BRIEFS

• STUFF LIKE THAT — Charles G. Lumbard — 182

• STRANGER ACROSS A ROOM — Stuart Hanlon — 227

• LEAVE IT TO LARAINE — Donald Hough — 228

TALKING SHOP

• SHOPPING FINDS — beginning on 247

ESQUIRE’S BUYING GUIDE

• THE ART OF GIVING — 246

CREDITS:
The Regency sofa on page 128 is shown through the courtesy of the Bristol Antiques Importing Company; the oval-back chair on page 130 from Jean Friedlander; the jewelry worn by Miss Paige on the gatefold is from Black, Starr & Gorham, Inc.; her natural Embra celluloid sapphire mink coat by Ritter Brothers; the interior setting by Claremont Interiors and the gift packages by Dennison. The scene on pages 144–45 was photographed at Pine Hollow Country Club, East Norwich, Long Island, New York; the mink coat there is also from Ritter Bros., the gift packages from Dennison.

• ESQUIRE’S CHRISTMAS SHOPPING LIST — 246