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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
MORE FUN THAN ANYBODY — Darrell Huff — 65
THE ORDEAL OF JOHN PAUL JONES — Fletcher Pratt — 69
SHALL WE DANCE? — Herb Graffis — 72
THE TERRORS OF LAW — Joseph Wechsberg — 81
REMNANT OF THE RACE TRACKS — Alan Hynd — 83
RUINS AT TARAWA — Frank X. Tolbert — 91
AND THE MUSIC THAT REMAINED UNSPOKEN — MacKinlay Kantor — 100
THE END OF THE CIGARETTE CARD — Karl Baarslag — 102
TWILIGHT OF A COWMAN — Stanley Walker — 108
HAIL AND FAREWELL — M. Harvard — 112
JOHN DECKER’S HOLLYWOOD — Ben Hecht — 132
AMBITIOUS LADY — Odgen Meckes — 159
I LIVE WITH A PHOBIA — Albert Parry — 203
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: THE SOUND AND THE FURY — 10
Contributors: BACKSTAGE WITH ESQUIRE — 58
Opinion: THIS MAN’S WORLD — Paul Gallico — 87
Theatre: FIRST NIGHTS & PASSING JUDGMENTS — George Jean Nathan — 130
Movies: MOVIE OF THE MONTH — Jack Moffitt — 135
The Lively Arts: THE LITTLE THINGS — Gilbert Seldes — 147
Books: ARE WOMEN BETTER? — Sinclair Lewis — 148
Anecdotes: GOING THE ROUNDS WITH ESQUIRE — 167
Edibles: MAN THE KITCHENETTE — Iles Brody — 175
Jazz: THE RHYTHM SECTION I — Paul Eduard Miller — 191
Jazz: THE RHYTHM SECTION II — Leonard G. Feather — 194
Discs: ESQUIRE ON THE RECORD — Gilbert Seldes — 198
Potables: THE WAY OF COLD EGGS — Lawton Mackall — 210
SEMI-FICTION
QUICK CURTAIN AT DRURY LANE — Douglas Ainslie — 115
FICTION
THE ROLE OF MYTHRINE — André Maurois — 65
THE BEGGAR’S STONE — Gerald Kersh — 72
TABUEZ AND THE NEW YEAR — George Victor Martin — 77
BARGAINING FOR THE HAMBURGS — Victor Polzer — 82
SNOW ON BIG MILLINOCKET — Robert Gold — 90
THE ONE WITH HANDS — Paul Annixter — 116
CRIME AND POVERTY — Peter Helmers — 128
A LESSON IN SIWASH — Dan Cushman — 151
THE MATERNAL INSTINCT — Maurice Baudin, Jr. — 154
PICTORIAL FEATURES
THE ORDEAL OF JOHN PAUL JONES — Painting by Anton Otto Fischer — 67
THE VARGA GIRL — CHRISTMAS TIDINGS — Painting by Varga; Verse by Phil Stack — 69
AN IMPRESSION OF GERALD KERSH — Color photograph by Sydney Ravitz — 72
FOUR HARMONY HONEYS — Photographs by George Hurrell — 73
BIG-LOW — Sketches by Howard Baer — 78
SUZI CRANDALL, ONE OF THE NEBULAS OF HOLLYWOOD — Color photograph by Madison Lacy — 81
SUSAN REED — Color photograph by Sydney Ravitz — 82
MR. SMITH COMES TO ESQUIRE — Drawings by J. Frederick Smith — 83
BIOGRAPHER IN BRONZE — Color photograph by M. E. Browning — 89
SHRINE AT TARAWA — Paintings and sketches by Kerr Eby; Official photographs U. S. Marine Corps — 91
COOK’S TOUR: ELIZABETH PARK — Color photograph by Sydney Ravitz — 101
PARADISE — Color photographs by Sydney Ravitz — 103
NEW PATHWAYS IN THE SKY — Color photograph by Greenholt — 109
HAIL AND FAREWELL — Caricatures by William Auerbach-Levy — 112
LUDIO BACK AT REST — Color photograph by George Hurrell — 117
THE CAME BOOK SECTION — 119
GO FOR THE VIRGIN ISLANDS — Color photograph by George Hurrell — 129
JOHN DECKER’S HOLLYWOOD — Paintings by John Decker — 132
HOW DEEP THE DUCK — Drawing by Charles Liddell — 137
PORTFOLIO OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS — Color photograph by Ravitz-Palazzo — 139
TREE WITH KNOWLEDGE — Photograph by Breitenbach — 149
PATTERN IN COMPOSURE — Photograph by Ewing Galloway — 150
SPORTS
THE MEASURED MILE — Wayne Kearl — 118
THE REAL MUSCLE MEN OF SPORTS — Bill Stern — 127
THE SPORTSMAN’S YEARBOOK: DECEMBER — William J. Schlach — 137
MY BEST TRAINER — Dick Bassett — 138
THE ESQUIRE SPORTS POLL ON SPORTSMANSHIP — — 153
NONAGENARIAN ON ICE — Paul Gould — 216
BRIEFS
THE TWO SIRENS — Robert Fontaine — 99
WE MADE IT OUT OF ODDS AND ENDS — Kenneth Kraft — 107
READY, AIM, ZING! — Parke Cummings — 110
THE PIPES ARE CALLING — James C. G. Conniff — 183
DELAY IN THE SNOW — Tracy Perkins — 186
CREDITS
ILLUSTRATION ON PAGE 108 through the courtesy of the Associated American Artists