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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

NYMPHOS HAVE NO FUN … Hard-boiled fiction to the contrary — Allen Churchill & Pierre Rubé, M.D. — 21
PROMENADE ON THE HIGH SEAS … Shopping on a floating Avenue of Fashion — Martin Mayer — 37
THE TOOLS OF IGNORANCE … Giving the catcher his due as a pennant winner — Jack O’Brien — 41
HOUSTON VS. THE JITTERS … The city that says a serious recession can’t happen — Monroe Fry — 44
THE PILL’S GRIM PROGRESS … There’s a destructive dictatorship in business too — Bernard Davis — 55

PERSONALITY

HERO IN HELL … Wallace Reid, last star of the Age of Innocence — Laurence Stallings — 28
FROM MOUNT VERNON TO MONTMARTRE … Art Buchwald, guide to Paris — Robert Emmett Ginna — 84

THIS MAN’S WORLD

CIRCUS IN PARIS … Interpreter of the world of laughter with sympathy — Paul Gallico — 30

FICTION

JUST OUT OF THE HIGH-RENT DISTRICT … Wanted: a cottage, with weeds — John Harrold — 23
MEN WITHOUT BONES … Was it the fever, or a real discovery? — Gerald Kersh — 24
THEM MONUMENTAL BLUES … The trouble was, his head was in the sky — Charles Embree — 32
SEVERAL SHADES OF RED … It was a situation he had hoped to avoid — Frank Harper — 39

PICTORIAL

ESQUIRE’S LADY FAIR … Sparkling Vanessa Brown — Photography by Philippe Halsman — 33
ESQUIRE’S AVENUES OF FASHION … Promenade deck of the Mary — Water color by Jean Pagès — 35
52ND STREET: THE LAST GASP … Its big show is over — Photography by Sam Shaw — 50
UNDER A PARIS SKYLIGHT … Home in an artist’s city — Photography by Wendy Hilty — 61
AUTOMOTIVE FASHIONS: THE DODGE FIREARROW — Water color by Leslie Saalburg — 87

WEARABLES

VIEWING THE LIGHT SWITCH … They’re light, but not overexposed — 78
SHOOTING THE BREEZE … You’ll feel like a cool grand in this summer apparel — 80
SHORT TAKES … The shorts story for both town and country — 82
ROBERT Q. LEWIS … The man of the month — 88

TRAVEL

VACATION NOW … Practical considerations, whether you drive or plane-hop — 12
MEDITERRANEAN ODYSSEY … Make it in two weeks or two years — Richard Joseph — 58

POTABLES

MIDSUMMER FLIGHT’S DREAM … Seven specials to beat the dog-days heat — 42

ESQUIRE’S FOOD FAIR

THE STAR-SPANGLED HOT DOG … The all-occasion food goes with any drink you like — 69
YOU CAN EAT BEER, TOO … And in food you serve from breakfast to midnight snack — Harry Botsford — 70
THIS IS MY FAVORITE … Gourmets let you in on their pièces de résistance — 71
ESQUIRE’S CUPBOARD FOR CONNOISSEURS … With these, you’ll be ready for anything — 72
STOP COOKING AND START EATING … Hot-weather delights, sans fire — Vernon Pizer — 74
GREENER PASTURES … Salads that are really new and unusual — 75
FIT TO BE TRIED … Dining and cooking equipment for your terrace — 76

ETIQUETTE

COURT ETIQUETTE … Your manners matter, on the court and before and after — 66

DEPARTMENTS

Editorial: SQUEEZE PLAY — 4
THE SOUND AND THE FURY — 6
ESQUIRE ON RECORD — 16
ESQUIRE’S FASHION FINDS — O. E. Schoeffler — 17
DINING IN/OUT WITH ESQUIRE — 18
TALKING SHOP … beginning on — 114

CREDITS:
Esky figurine on cover is by Beverly Weiner; binoculars from Abercrombie & Fitch; bathing suit by Par-Form, photograph by Peter Dimitri; towel on Vanessa Brown gatefold by Martex; Cha Cha hat on page 42 courtesy Brett Winston; photos on page 58 by Silberstein—Rappo-Guillermette, Viles, Hilty; on page 59, Quigg; rotisserie and cart, page 76, from Abercrombie & Fitch; plate and flatware from Hammacher Schlemmer.

ADVERTISERS’ INDEX — 113