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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Winston Churchill’s Strategy
The only statesman to outguess Hitler, he has good reasons for withholding the all-out attack on Germany.
G. E. W. Johnson — 25
White Mountains and Purple Cities
Ski in virgin hills of Vermont, see beautiful but dumb Charleston, then romp in hyacinths in New Orleans.
Mark Ashley — 26
Uncle Sam’s Southern Exposure
Below the Rio Grande twenty republics and many islands teem with a thousand and one marvels.
Martin Torrence — 33
Latins Have Gringo Fun
U. S. tourists feel right at home among Good Neighbors’ jukeboxes, movie palaces, baseball leagues and soda fountains.
Kenneth Mann — 34
Dollar-a-Day Paradise Lost
Guatemala is fine for a visit, but most North Americans eventually discover they can’t live on lotus alone.
Arthur Goodfriend — 36
The Dark Fury of the South
Major Frederick Sullens, two-fisted, freewheeling editor of Jackson, Mississippi, is the scourge of all politicians.
Craddock Goins — 67
Design for a Bachelor’s Roost
A house offering all the joy of fresh air, birds, and commuting, without any need (or room) for a wife.
Fred Murphy — 72
Naval Hit and Run Power
From experience with deep-sea surface torpedo boats it is possible to plan a design for sea-going carrier ships.
Clyde Vandenberg — 94
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury
Signifying something. — 8
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire
Writers let down their hair. — 22
Motors: Finer Cars in a Fighting World
Our Own Automobile Show for 1942.
Robert W. Marks — 61
The Lively Arts: What Cooks with Shalon
Current phases and clichés.
Gilbert Seldes — 68
Wearables: Weathervanes and Fashions
Clothes to outsmart the thermometer.
O. E. Schoeffler — 74
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments
An ode to Bobby Clark.
George Jean Nathan — 79
Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf
From Edna Ferber to Jonathan Swift.
William Lyon Phelps — 80
Potables: Escapist Refreshments
A bird can’t travel on one wing.
Lawton Mackall — 86
Music: Roulades and Cadenzas
Singing Sam, the well-heeled radio man.
Carleton Smith — 92
Records: Esquire on the Record
Jazz, Madrigals and Songs of the Red Army Chorus.
Carleton Smith — 97
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette
Frank Vassar’s soup for pale people.
Iles Brody — 98
FICTION
Chariot in the Sky
As Lazarus and Judas Iscariot drive hastily to Jerusalem, they behold strange reflections in the overcast heavens.
Manuel Komroff — 39
The Saga of Zela
When he thought of the Indian girl in his keeping he remembered the denouement of every tropical romance.
Oliver La Farge — 40
Gather-all in the Hollow
Uncle George Powderjoy was just a trifle over eighty, and he figured Dovey Blevins would make him a wonderful wife.
Jesse Stuart — 45
… Went Up the Hill
Last night he would have thought it impossible that he could be an outlaw, fleeing from the Gestapo.
Ferdinand Czernin — 51
Strictly Business
Sure remembered when he killed them for fifty bucks but Big Angelo paid him a salary with a bonus of a grand a job.
Chester B. Himes — 55
Uncle Jeff’s Trump Card
Tug of war over Zack Bourne with Sarah pulling against the one-eyed Poacher and a bottle of Old Perhaps.
Edmund Ware — 82
PERSONALITIES
The Shorthand Caricaturist
Lawrence Beall Smith gets his pictures from the life of the street, and if they don’t sing, they certainly hum.
Harry Salpeter — 91
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Cover Design
Who took whom for a ride?
Modeled by L. S. Soderstrom
Varga Girl
Reveille.
Verse by Phil Stack; Painting by Varga — 31
The New Orderlies
Under Hitler’s heel.
Painting by Arthur Szyk — 53
Beaten Boxer
Courtesy of Associated American Artists, N.Y.C.
Painting by James Chapin — 54
Bahram
Man o’ War of the English Turf.
Painting by Wesley Dennis — 63
German Shepherd
Bred of honest, hard-working stock.
Color photograph by Henry Waxman — 66
Designs for a Bachelor’s Roost
Exterior and interior plans.
Designed by Fred Murphy — 73
Billie Seward
In Paramount’s No Hands on the Clock.
Color photograph by Hurrell — 77
A Group of Paintings
Reproduced in four-color photography.
by Lawrence Beall Smith — 90
Designs for Torpedo Boats
Showing “mother” ships for mosquito squadrons.
George W. Walker — 95
The Renoir Girl
An interpretation.
Kodachromed by Erwin Blumenfeld — 99
“On the Wing”
Prelude to duck hunting.
Painting by Walter E. Bohl — 100
SATIRE
The Grand Finale
Ten years ago they were five of the most sought-after women in Paris, yet they all sought the same man—Landrau.
Ashton Gregg — 48
There’s Something About a Soldier
Corporal Corky Smith knew the captain wouldn’t give him a pass to meet a blonde waitress named Edna.
Louis Paul — 58
Should Wire Tapping Be Permitted?
Even the FBI has no conception of the conversations that go on every day over the telephone.
Parke Cummings — 85
Toddy and the Revolution
It was during those first bloody days in the city of Vienna that a little dog played the lead in a tragicomedy.
Alfred Polgar — 101
SPORTS
He Flies Through the Air
How Torger Tokle, twenty-one-year-old Norwegian, set a new record and became ski jumping champion of America.
W. C. Heinz — 28
When Golf Is No Fun
Nine out of ten golfers chuck the game because of bad scores, foregoing the pleasure of healthy exercise in good company.
Ben Hogan — 46
The Sporting Scene
George Halas tops all football coaches while John B. Kelly and Alice Marble train softies for Civilian defense.
Herb Graffis — 52
Rotate the Center-Jump
Suggesting a much-needed remedy for the present dizzy pace of basketball and the over-fatigue of the players.
Forrest C. Allen — 56
Tally-Ho, Texas Style
Fox hunting is chiefly concerned with dogs in the Lone Star State, where men in varied costume ride tough cow horses.
Gerald Donoghue — 62
The Esquire Sports Poll
Boxing fans want bouts outside New York and baseball spectators thumbs-down abusive language.
Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon — 70
TRENDS IN DRESS
New Clothes, Accessories, sketched by Pachner, Hafela, Goodman, Hughes and Fellows — beginning on page 29