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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

• Cinderella, Incorporated — Louis Untermeyer — 101

• Put This in Your Pipe — Brooks Atkinson — 105

• Campus Portrait: Dartmouth College — F. Alexander — 106

• High Man on a Totem Pole — Sidney Carroll — 115

• When Irish Hearts Were Laughing — Joseph E. Shaner — 124

• The Mellerogious Night of Tom Kenney — Frank Mechau — 130

• Macy’s Santa Claus — Fred Freed — 133

• Mink by Mink — Frances Geiger Adams — 144

• Flying Faster Than Sound — John C. Ross — 150

• The Plight Before Christmas — Herb Graffis — 152

• Brazil—Land of Wonderful Nonsense — Richard Joseph — 164

• Nocturne in Lace — Bill Graffis — 168

• The West’s Wildest Town — Henry W. Hough — 175

• Food with the Spanish Accent — Paul Wilder — 181

• Home Practically by Christmas — Charles Cooke — 185

• What Makes a Bug Man Tick? — Sidney Fields — 186

DEPARTMENTS

• Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury — 10

• Contributors: Backstage with Esquire — 90

• Comment: What in the World — 95

• Movies: Christmas Carol in Blackface — Jack Moffitt — 121

• Books: Five Yards Through Wolcott Gibbs — A. J. Liebling — 136

FICTION

• The Hero Worshipped — Gerald Kersh — 97

• Man’s Alien Shore — N. O. Youmans — 98

• How Sportsmanship Came to Carver College — Jesse Stuart — 111

• We Shoot at Sunrise — George Jessel — 116

• What Is Courage? — Mack Reynolds — 129

• Johnny Brennan’s Ivory Tower — Driscoll Thomas — 134

• Christmas Eve at McConnell’s Bar — F. Hugh Herbert — 142

• Dream of a Sawdust Christmas — John Frederick Frank — 149

• A Dame with Sympathy — Mel Matson — 162

• The Man in the Moon — Charles Carver — 171

PERSONALITIES

• Heir to Chopin — Frederick Packard — 112

POETRY

• This Poem Is for Those — Walter Benton — 6

• Reverie at Christmastide — Verses by Pierre de Ronsard — 137

ESQUIRE GALLERY

• Moment — Painting by Coby Whitmore — 99

• Dalliance — Painting by Ben Stahl — 100

• Christmas Miss-Adventures — Paintings by Fritz Willis and Joe De Mers — 117

• When Oxen Pulled the Iron Horse — Painting by Harper Goff — 126

• Reverie at Christmastide — Paintings by J. Frederick Smith — 137

• The Snow Maiden…A Winter Legend — Painting by Euclid Shook — 176

PICTORIAL FEATURES

• Cover Illustration — Painting by Sheilah Beckett

• Adventures of a Blade Maid — Color photograph by William Stone — 102

• Harping on Her Subject — Color photograph by William Stone — 105

• Dartmouth College…A Profile — Painting by Fred Eng — 107

• Racing to the Fire — Painting by E. Opper — 109

• December’s Children — Caricatures by Alan Jedla — 110

• Intimate Glimpse of Alexander Brailowsky — Color photograph by Arnold Glantz — 112

• Cinderella Horse: First Fiddle — Color photograph by William Stone — 115

• It Should Happen to a Dog — Color photograph by Arnold Glantz — 129

• If It’s Music You Want… — Color photograph by Arnold Glantz — 135

• Charlotte Anthony—Singing the Songs of America — Color photograph by Arnold Glantz — 143

• Recipe for an Old-Fashioned Christmas — Paintings by Van Kaufman — 145

• Joan Edwards—Top Tunes, Top Performance — Color photograph by William Stone — 151

• Esquire’s Portfolio of Christmas Gifts — Color photographs by Ed Rinker — 153

• Bobbie Yeoman—Young Lady with Designs — Color photograph by William Stone — 163

• A Salvador Dali Classic — Caricatoon by Jedla — 172

• Looking for a Place to Linger? Try This — 175

• Falcon II Glides Through Lake Michigan Waters — Color photograph by J. Julius Fanta — 178

• Cook’s Tour: Catherine Anderson — Color photograph by Arnold Glantz — 181

• Blend and Bend, Recipe No. 1 — Sketches by Mina Gow — 183

• Mechanical Prophecies, No. 7—Gifts You Can’t Buy — Designs by Alexis de Sakhnoffsky — 184

• The Film That Dreams Are Made On — Color photograph by Rudy Arnold — 187

SPORTS

• You, Too, Can Ski—Maybe — Robert M. Coates — 102

• Georgia Spartan — Jimmy Jones — 141

• The Father and Mother of Nimrod — Robb White — 161

• The Esquire Sports Poll on Hockey — Jim Crossett — 188

BRIEFS

• Occupation Sketches — Morton Bloom — 122

• Dead Men Don’t Laugh — Harry Fletcher — 167

• Ride in Mexico — Richard M. Morse — 172

• You Got to Have a Good Lip — John D. MacDonald — 178

• Duty-Honor-and Country — Thomas L. Stix — 182

CREDITS

• Illustrations on pages 102, 134, 172, 181 — courtesy Associated American Artists

• Frank Mechau illustration on page 130 — courtesy Encyclopaedia Britannica