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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COMMENT
REFLECTIONS AFTER THE CURTAINS FALL . . . Illusion’s quiet joys . . . George Jean Nathan 111
CAN WE BE WELL EDUCATED? . . . Guarding the guardians . . . Aldous Huxley 112
FICTION
ORCHESTRATION FOR TWELFTH NIGHT . . . Hark! Our heralded angel sings . . . Paul Gallico 113
THE TURNING PAGE . . . Spring’s down to autumn’s rustling wings . . . Anthony C. West 117
SCOTTY & CO. . . . Even overspecialization has its price . . . Paul Annixter 124
THE WISE FOOL OF AKSHIN . . . At least he had all the answers . . . Robert L. Heilbroner 141
THE MAGIC CITY . . . Neon lights and candles of understanding . . . Leo Dillon Murtagh 155
THE MAN WHO KNEW CONRAD . . . He stopped his ears against the mermaid’s song . . . David Loth 161
DAYDREAM . . . Epilogue: with curtain down, star in the wings . . . Basil Rathbone 168
PRINCESS CLOTHILDE AND THE DRAGON . . . When knighthood was in flour . . . A. D. Wintle 187
PERSONALITIES
PRESIDENT KEFAUVER . . . He has something in common with the champs . . . Lester Cohen 127
FABIAN OF SCOTLAND YARD . . . Britain’s real-life Sherlock Holmes . . . Lewis W. Gillenson 148
JULIE ANDREWS: GLAMOUR UNDER ICE . . . Fair lady with pipe-organ voice . . . Robert W. Marks 158
ARTICLES
THE TOUGHEST TIGER . . . Harry Greb: dames came even before the ring . . . Allen Churchill 130
GAME BIRDS IN YOUR BACK YARD . . . Game refuge when the hunter’s afar . . . Edwin J. Becker 134
THE TOWN OF MANY FACES . . . Businesslike, virtuous, venal, lecherous Zurich . . . Herbert Kubly 139
HOW NOT TO BUY A R.R. TICKET . . . You’ll always get some kind of a ride . . . J. D. Ratcliff 146
THE APOTHEOSIS OF JIMMY DEAN . . . He belongs to the adolescents . . . Martin Mayer 166
WHO TESTS THE TESTERS? . . . And are they fitted for their jobs? . . . Monroe Fry 179
BRITISH ORDERS OF CHIVALRY . . . The four jeweled ladders and how they’re mounted . . . John Masters 184
MICHIGAN’S FAVORITE MEDICINE MAN . . . A. W. Chase, mail-order pacifier . . . F. N. & M. W. Kerwin 191
PICTORIAL
ROBERT WEAVER: OBJECTIVE . . . Art and illustration . . . With illustrations by the artist 128
SNUFF SAID . . . The old and the very, very old . . . Photograph by Ben Rose 132
ESQUIRE’S LADY FAIR . . . Maria Felix . . . Photograph by Philippe Halsman 135
CHRISTMAS IN ZURICH . . . Along the Limmat to the Zürichsee . . . Painting by Jean Pages 137
CONRAD HILTON . . . Ambassador of the good things in life . . . Photograph by Richard Bruguier 150
EVE AT CHRISTMAS . . . From rosy dawn to golden candlelight . . . Sketches by Eric 151
CECIL BEATON: MAINLY ON THE PLANE . . . Cause of effects . . . Photograph by Erwin Blumenfeld 159
MUSIC AT CHRISTMAS . . . Light and shadow and brass and wood . . . Photograph by Ben Somoroff 162
WEARABLES
FORMAL ACCEPTANCE . . . You’re right with elegance, La Scala or Monaco version . . . 143
FIRST RUN SMASH HIT . . . The arbiter of these fashions seems to be the magnet . . . 144
TOPS IN PAJAMAS . . . Far-East adaptation, combining color and comfort with luxury . . . 254
GIFT SUPPLEMENT
ESQUIRE’S CHRISTMAS SHOPPER . . . Easy pickings . . . Photography by Arn Glantz . . . beginning on 22
THE COMPLETE GENTLEMAN’S GIFT SELECTOR . . . A royal directory . . . beginning on 169
IF YOU HAVE $50 TO SPEND AND A LIST TO TAKE CARE OF . . . Including best girl, friend . . . 170
IF YOUR CHRISTMAS INVESTMENT IS $250 . . . Not forgetting clients and relatives . . . 172
CHECKBOOKS UNLIMITED . . . For those who have everything, including taste . . . 174
KID STUFF . . . For the six-to-sixty bracket . . . Photography (170–176) by Peter Dimitri 176
FOR SPECIALLY GIFTED PEOPLE . . . For her and for you . . . Photography by Tosh Matsumoto 180
TRAVEL
VACATION NOW . . . The capital and the seacoast and all the places in between . . . 43
HIGH ROAD THROUGH MEXICO . . . Neighbor with a fascinating touch of foreignness . . . Richard Joseph 182
POTABLES
ESQUIRE’S CLASSIC DRINK NO. 11: CHAMPAGNE PUNCH . . . For the festive season . . . 149
DEPARTMENTS
Publisher’s Page: THROUGH THICKEST DECEMBER . . . 6
Editorial: REFLECTIONS REFLECTED . . . 10
THE SOUND AND THE FURY . . . 18
BACKSTAGE WITH ESQUIRE . . . 54
DINING IN/OUT WITH ESQUIRE . . . 91
ESQUIRE ON RECORD . . . 94
THE SLIPPED DISC . . . 98
TALKING SHOP
SHOPPING FINDS . . . beginning on 284
CREDITS: The snuffboxes on page 133 are from the collection of À la Vieille Russie of New York.
ESQUIRE’S CHRISTMAS SHOPPER . . . 282