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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Look Out for Deflation. Why consumption won’t keep pace with production in the postwar world unless four suggested steps are taken. — Julius Hirsch — 37
Souvenir of Wartime Oahu. Oahu, the busiest of the Hawaiian Islands, seems to the first-time visitor a beautiful and eerie place. — Sidney Carroll — 40
Big Red: “The Meanest Horse.” In 1920, Big Red, better known as Man o’ War, faced his first big test in the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct. — Grantland Rice — 44
What Makes a Criminal Lawyer. Of the six greatest criminal lawyers in the United States, two have captured hearts and headlines alike. — Lloyd Shearer — 52
Latin Americans Are Different. These men and five acres between us would be understood if the Good Neighbor policy is really to prosper. — James Paul Stokes — 56
The Prince of Pitchmen. He unabashedly calls himself the world’s greatest salesman; let’s all be enriched by contact with him. — Don Carle Gillette — 67
Home in a Quonset. The Quonset hut dots the landscape from Iceland to the Pacific. Is the jeep of housing in World War II. — Henry Sember — 78
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury. The reader writes. — 10
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire. The men behind the bylines. — 32
Opinion: This Man’s World. Too unusual electric train and Erne. — Paul Gallico — 61
The Lively Arts: Miss West and Mr. Proust. The difference between them grows less. — Gilbert Seldes — 75
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments. Of Billy Rose and others. — George Jean Nathan — 76
Education: Esquire’s Ready-to-Speak French II. Grammar through conversation. — Frank Henius — 80
Jazz: The Rhythm Section. Musicians and records. — Leonard Feather & Paul Eduard Miller — 92
Anecdotes: Going the Rounds with Esquire. The royal suite and the hall bedroom. — 94
Potables: The Little Cheers of J. B. Liquor does more than warm the cockles. — Lawton Mackall — 106
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette. How to take your girl to dinner. — Iles Brody — 115
Wearables: A Fashion Refresher. For returning Joes, leathernecks and tars. — O. E. Schoeffler — 122
Discs: Esquire on the Record. Othello, Bloomer Girl and others. — Gilbert Seldes — 122
FICTION
Children of the Cemetery. The black natives took a fiendish delight in helping our men track down the Japs on their island. — William Dale Jennings — 38
Incident in the Time of Nick. Nick was a smart guy, and it was useful to see that dame ready to take him for another sleigh ride. — Jerry Davis — 49
The Monarch’s Last Tonto. With his woman, dandyed Chinita in the crowd, the Monarch began his first crooked game, and his last one. — Robert Sylvester — 50
The End of Indian Summer. The insurance people began to shake their heads after the death of nice old Miss Gillespie’s third husband. — Maurice Baudin, Jr. — 54
Return to Pleasant Waters. His return to the countryside of his childhood reminded him of long-forgotten balks with the bulky George. — Paul Strahl — 62
The Odyssey of Old Specs. How Specs, the raccoon, grew into manhood, and came to take his rightful place as the moving spirit of the gang. — Paul Annixter — 68
The Stand of the Wooden Soldier. No one believed it when Christopher Sauter, Nazi inductee, suddenly became stiff as a stick of wood. — Alfred Neumann — 108
SEMI-FICTION
The Pirate and the General. How the pirate Lafitte and his men helped General Jackson turn the tide in the decisive battle of New Orleans. — Howard Fast — 42
PERSONALITIES
Renaissance of Umberto Romano. His paintings stem from primal Renaissance. — Harry Salpeter — 87
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Man o’ War Beating John P. Grier. Painted especially for Esquire by Frank Voss. — 45
Varga Girl. Gravy for the Navy. Verse by Phil Stack; Painting by Varga. — 47
American Beauties, Eastern Style. Norma Richter. — Photograph by Hal Reiff — 60
American Beauties, Western Style. June Vincent. — Photograph by Hurrell — 65
The Esquire Canteen. Helena Bliss of Song of Norway. — Photograph by Anton Bruehl — 66
Among Hollywood’s Nebulae. Toni Seven. — Photograph by Waxman — 71
April Sun to Sips. Cartoon Portfolio. — by Irving Roir — 84
A Group of Six Paintings. Courtesy of Associated American Artists, Inc. — by Umberto Romano — 86
Fashions at an Exhibition. All the Muses of Modern Art. — Painting by Leslie Saalburg — 95
Etude in Black and White. Rhonda Fleming and Cindy Garner. — Photograph by Madison Lacy — 96
The Helicopter as Good Samaritan. Painting by Alexander Leydenfrost. — 101
Esquiregraph No. 6. Benny Goodman. — Photocollage by Ravitz-Palazzo — 102
SPORTS
The Wild Buckskin Stallion. Nothing short of a bullet could ever stop him. — Jack Tooker — 64
Big-League Hopper from Hastings. How Johnny Hopp made big-time baseball. — George Wignall — 70
The Sporting Scene. Tale of a wrestler, and other anecdotes of the sports world. — 88
Tension: Golf’s Greatest Hazard. That terrible strain that overtakes the best. — Tommy Armour — 103
BRIEFS
Onward Kissing Soldiers. Doughboys must do some explaining when they get home. — Parke Cummings — 39
Going to Sea in an Oilcan. Tankers deliver the goods amid deadly dangers. — Philip Harkins — 43
There Ain’t No Justice. An ex-con does a little recasting jailbreaking. — Chester B. Himes — 53
Kayo in the Afternoon. It looks forty terrible rounds and W. again was champ. — Harvey L. Miller — 89
Look Down, Father Washington. “Bee Bee” is vying for the Middleweight Championship. — Roger L. Treat — 105
TRENDS IN DRESS
Clothes and Accessories sketched by Murley, Runnette, Goodman and Fellows — beginning on — 112