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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Golden Decade
A REMINISCENCE OF A GOLDEN DECADE … Stimulating times … Frederick Lewis Allen 79
THE WOMAN FROM TWENTY-ONE … Scene in front of the stage … F. Scott Fitzgerald 81
GIN AND GALLANTRY … The women in the spotlight of the Golden Twenties … 82
JAZZ ON A HIGH NOTE … Records and cut-ups … Louis Armstrong 85
SHINING ARENA … Memories of the theatre’s golden days … John Mason Brown 86
LONG LIVE THE BEAT … The danceable beat that carries you along … Fred Astaire 88
YOUTHFUL GIANTS … Here are the Champs, the Golden Boys who’ve never been bested … 90
SOCIAL ERROR … It is hard to understand a doll’s heart … Damon Runyon 93
THE SHOW THEY NEVER FORGOT … The Ziegfeld Follies had everything … 95
THE ROARING TWENTIES … Nineteen cartoons showing the decade’s other side … 100
“HELLO, SUCKER!” … Texas Guinan, great hostess of the Twenties … 102
Dreams of Far Places
“DREAM FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE BEYOND TIME” … Half-recalled from a dream … 105
THE NILE … “The longing of a desert wanderer is in it” … Emil Ludwig 107
CAPE HORN … “Uncharted paths men trace in ocean’s foam” … Walter de la Mare 108
BALI … “Spend the glittering moonlight there” … Rupert Brooke 109
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION … “Yet a dearer thing than home” … David Morton 110
Fiction
THE PRECIOUS DROP … Seven women of the South Pacific … James A. Michener 121
IRENE, GOOD NIGHT … It was to be a most romantic evening … Ken Kolb 123
DELAYED ACTION … Timed for the judge’s revenge … Clayre & Michel Lipman 128
DEAD PIGEON … A man has to look out for himself … Jules Archer 130
Mystery
THE GUILTY … There’s no law against wishing a man dead … Niven Busch 113
Supplement
CHRISTMAS GIVING, 1951 … Portfolio of gift hints … 132
A FATHER’S CHRISTMAS … Whether he be sportsman or indoor man … 134
A YOUNG MAN’S CHRISTMAS … For school and for play … 136
A BACHELOR’S CHRISTMAS … For the man around town at home … 138
A FAMILY’S CHRISTMAS … Suggestions for husbands and wives … 140
CHRISTMAS FOR ALL … For the special Him and the special Her … 142
CHRISTMAS MISCELLANY … Gifts any man would like to receive … 144
Pictorial
THE SHOW THEY NEVER FORGOT … A pictorial sequence, painted by Ben Stahl 94
THE ROARING TWENTIES … Cartoons of that decade … Drawings by Sam Cobean 100
TEXAS GUINAN AT HER CLUB INTIME … Gatefold painting by Gustav Rehberger 103
DREAMS OF FAR PLACES
“DREAM FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE BEYOND TIME” … Gatefold painting by Alex Ross 105
THE NILE … Lovelies of its golden era … Painting by Fred Steffen 107
CAPE HORN … In the days of sailing ships … Painting by John Atherton 108
BALI … The right side of Paradise … Painting by James Bingham 109
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION … Where waters meet … Painting by Fred Freeman 110
SLOW MEN AT WORK … Today’s ruling class … Drawings by Eldon Dedini 114
CHRISTMAS CARDS YOU’LL NEVER RECEIVE … Drawings by Eldon Dedini 124
Illustrations
THE WOMAN FROM TWENTY-ONE … Painting by Edwin Georgi 80
JAZZ ON A HIGH NOTE … Painting by Robert Riggs 84
LONG LIVE THE BEAT … Paintings by J. Frederick Smith 88
SOCIAL ERROR … Painting by Wesley Snyder 92
THE GUILTY … Painting by Robert Fawcett 112
CHRISTMAS GLOW: BLUE BLAZER … Kodachrome by Charles Kerlee 116
THE PRECIOUS DROP … Painting by Ray Prohaska 120
Wearables
CHRISTMAS KNIGHT … Evening wear for today’s Sir Escort … 118
Potables
CHRISTMAS GLOW: BLUE BLAZER … Warming holiday drinks … Harry Botsford 116
Travel
VACATION NOW … December specials for the man who needs a change of air … 59
SWITZERLAND THE MOUNTAIN MASTERPIECE … Skiing Christmas … Richard Joseph 126
Departments
Editorial: MY FAVORITE SANTA … Ah, the pleasures of doing for others … 6
THE SOUND AND THE FURY … Derailment for father’s leisure … 10
BACKSTAGE WITH ESKY … The men—and the woman—of the month … 15
FASHIONS … He’s dressed the way that suits men best … O. E. Schoeffler 118
GOING PLACES … Festive ideas for the celebrating season … 241
Once Over Lightly
HAPPY YUL-TIDE … Everybody’s favorite monarch, Yul Brynner … 24
BABES IN TOYLAND … Sid Caesar plays a latter-day Santa to Imogene Coca … 28
GIFTS FOR THE GREAT BIG STOCKING … Ten gifts for the moneyed man … S. R. Fogel 32
GOD REST YOU MERRY ESQUIRES … A toast to our authors and artists … Elaine Greene 36
ALL THE WORLD WENT WHEELING … When riding meant bicycling … Frank Tripp 44
KEN MURRAY’S CHRISTMAS EVE … Donner and Blitzen and Dobbins … 54
BIRD & BOTTLE … An extra special way to start your Christmas dinner … 56
Briefs
EDITOR BITES DOG … Leviathan City gets back to normal … Parke Cummings 23
VIRTUOSI OF THE COUGH … England’s talented music lovers … Edwin Newman 146
THEY’D BE PLAYING YET … Called on account of darkness … Tom Norton 187
GET UP AND EAT … Sup this if you’re an African pygmy … Lee Rogow 200
YOU’RE DIFFERENT … He didn’t know what he wanted … L. L. Foreman 202
VENISON’S BENISON … It’s all in the way you make it … Burr MacMurray 234
Talking Shop
SHOPPING FINDS … 200 practical and glamorous gift suggestions … beginning on 244
BOOKS … A dozen books, all good Christmas gift suggestions … 249
PHOTOGRAPHY … Gift ideas for him: a miniature camera, a pocket tripod … 282
ESQUIRE’S CHRISTMAS SHOPPING LIST … What to buy and where to get it … 238