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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COMMENT
THIS MAN’S WORLD… Suggestions for bringing Santa to your house … Paul Gallico 91
CANNED FISH… An island of stability in a flux of change … Aldous Huxley 93
REFLECTIONS AFTER THE CURTAINS FALL… In the theatre, let’s have theatricality … George Jean Nathan 94
SUPPLEMENT
A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES… Read it aloud, if only to the close and holy darkness … Dylan Thomas 95
FICTION
LA SMORFIA… The paesanos knew the age of miracles hadn’t passed … Pietro Di Donato 104
AN ABOMINABLE TANGERINE… Tangier is beautiful from a safe distance … W. Stanley Moss 110
A BANNER WITH A STRANGE DEVICE… They helped him carry it to the top … John Moore 113
UNCLE JEFF AND THE FAMILY PRIDE… The winter of his discontent … Jesse Stuart 119
THREE BROTHERS… When night came, he’d had another chance … Thomas Bruce Morgan 146
SWAMP JUSTICE… Long live the king!—if only for a little while … Jim Buford 148
WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?… She was ready for the celestial consequences … Robert Bogardus 159
THERE’S SHEEP IN THE CITY… He wasn’t going to shepherd all of New York … Jerry Olson 162
NOVELETTE
ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE… Christmas Eve surprise; return engagement New Year’s … Garson Kanin 167
ARTICLES
ACTORS’ STUDIO… Finishing school for the make-believe world … Frederic Morton 107
IF MAMA HADN’T FED LENIN AND TROTSKY… 1910 vignette, Geneva … Frédérique Frédège 114
THE CUSTOMER IS SOMETIMES RIGHT… If caught in a light trance … Robert L. Heilbroner 121
CROSS SECTION U.S.A.: STEELTOWN… As steel goes, so goes Bethlehem … Monroe Fry 126
THE GOTHIC MURALS SCANDAL… Old Masters that were really original … Joseph Wechsberg 128
THE GRAND CANAL: TIDE OF ELEGANCE… Venice: white swan of cities … Charlotte & Denis Plimmer 141
PICTORIAL
ESQUIRE’S LADY FAIR… Rhonda Fleming … Photography by Dan Wynn 115
THE END OF AN ERA… When opulence was more than a word … Paintings by Leslie Saalburg 122
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW… Always in the footlights … Painting by Joe Kaufman 129
OCTETTE: DARKROOM DRAMA… Study in line … Solarized photography by Bill Hughes 131
RENAISSANCE IN GRAPHICS… Contemporary originals … Woodcuts by Marianne Davidson 144
WEARABLES
INTERNATIONAL AIR: TRAVEL TABLEAU… Well-dressed men … Painting by Al Pimsler 117
EXECUTIVE DECISION: VIA PRIVATE LINE… Transcontinental connection … 142
FORMAL INVITATION… At ease for dinner and the opera … 160
GIFT GALLERY
ESQUIRE’S CHRISTMAS SHOPPER… 48 photographs filled with gifts … beginning on 12
A TREASURE HOUSE OF SELECT CHRISTMAS GIFTS… Just close your eyes and point … 149
POTABLES
BEFORE AND AFTER … 238 and 108
TRAVEL
VACATION NOW … 52
CARIBBEAN SWING … Richard Joseph 164
DEPARTMENTS
Publisher’s Page: NOT EVEN A LOUSE … 10
Editorial: THE YEAR OF THE QUEECH … 15
THE SOUND AND THE FURY … 22
ESQUIRE ON RECORD … 71
DINING IN/OUT WITH ESQUIRE … 76
BRIEFS
MAKE WITH A BARE BODKIN … T. Young 222
EASY MONEY … Garnett Radcliffe 253
TALKING SHOP
SHOPPING FINDS … beginning on 273
ESQUIRE’S BUYING GUIDE
ESQUIRE’S TREASURY OF GIFTS … 272
CREDITS:
The cover photograph is by Dan Wynn; Rhonda Fleming, on the gatefold, is currently appearing in United Artists’ News Is Made at Night; her gown is from Rogers Lingerie. The glassware on pages 108 and 109 is from Baccarat & Porthaud. On pages 160 and 161, the white gown is by Ceil Chapman; the tile flooring by Johns-Manville; the chandelier and decanter from Crystal Mart; the table from Italian Marble Mart; the chairs from Mayhew Co.
ADVERTISERS’ INDEX … 272
ESQUIRE’S CHRISTMAS SHOPPER … 272