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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Esquire’s Pocket Air Power Course
A quiz for armchair strategists and pertinent information to help you scan the news wisely.
Capt. J. R. Gillingham — 23
Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe
Exposé by an anti-Nazi who knows Germany’s air force from the inside … as told to Curt Riess by Hauptmann Hermann
— 27
The Unsinkable Sailor
Perhaps his roguish spirit has protected him through mishaps that would have killed or shattered other men.
H. B. Lawrenson — 30
The Morale of the Nazi Soldier
As Nazis cannot have a free people’s natural morale they have a false one, based solely on victory.
Jan Valtin — 35
Geo-Gods and Little Fishes
Explaining Germany’s attack on Russia and ultimate goal in terms of that ersatz science, Geopolitik.
Mark Ashley — 54
Inventory for a Blitz
Bombing is a mathematical problem dealing in areas to be blasted, tons of explosives and reserve planes.
Robert W. Marks — 57
3 Estraies 1 Aut (Mex.)
“Beisbol” woos the Mexicans, Cubans, Panamanians and Nicaraguans, our closest Pan-American cousins.
Martin Torrence — 58
Afternoon with a T.N.T. Man
First writer allowed inside a T.N.T. plant sheds his matches, dons a powder uniform, learns what cooks.
Frederick C. Painton — 63
Esquire’s All-American Band
World-famous sage on jazz picks instrumentalists and singers for 1943 in the first of an annual series.
Robert Goffin — 74
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury
Building and busting Esky’s morale. — 10
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire
Introducing our writers. — 20
The Lively Arts: The Gibson Girl for Me
That proud beauty had her points.
Gilbert Seldes — 49
Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf
Intellectual lowdown on Victor Hugo.
William Lyon Phelps — 73
Wearables: Skiing in the Military Manner
Reviewing the Ski troops.
O. E. Schoeffler — 79
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments
We are not entertained.
George Jean Nathan — 83
Potables: Central Heating with Punch
Hot toddies for cold patriots.
Lawton Mackall — 84
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette
Our Daily Bread.
Iles Brody — 89
Potpourri: Ad Libbing With Esquire
Let joy be unrefined.
Bruce Patterson — 98
FICTION
The Test of Courage
As soon as the two boys put to sea in the frail boat, in all his excitement, Peter forgot his fears.
Liam O’Flaherty — 28
What Is a Hero?
Once in the Army, you can’t even duck such an order as tutoring a son of a Mrs. Hadley Royce.
Louis Paul — 38
The Case of the Missing Corpuscle
The distinguished scientist said he was sure he had discovered the secret of physical life.
Frank Veloz — 42
The Limited Turn of the Worm
Before shipping off for the Navy he meant to have a last, soul-satisfying talk with the personnel manager.
Joseph Silverman — 50
A Stall for Uncle Jeff
Pa said he’d rather have a copperhead as to have Uncle Jeff hauled over the mountain to his house.
Jesse Stuart — 60
Nobody Loves a Fat Boy
When the prettiest girl in the freshman class teased him about his weight, he knew he must take steps.
Louis Zara — 64
Home Sweet Ruby Street
As Mrs. Finn so truly wrote, “I’m the Sprung a yong Man’s fance gets hutchy-cutchy ideas in the head…”
Edward Harris Heth — 76
PERSONALITIES
Nice Nellie, the Gibson Girl
Men adored her, women imitated her and Gibson became the social arbiter of the better-heeled classes.
Harry Salpeter — 47
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Cover Design
Spitfire modeled by Paul Van Sant; figures modeled by L. S. Soderstrom
The Varga Girl
Song for a Soldier.
Verse by Phil Stack; Painting by Varga — 33
Our Dumb Friends
A Lesson in Natural History.
Drawings by Derso and Kelen — 44
The Gibson Girl
From Cincinnati Art Museum.
by Charles Dana Gibson — 46
The Anthem of the Chetniks
Fighting Song of Yugoslavia.
Painting by William Pachner — 55
The B-25
Enemy Number 1 to the Axis.
Painting by Alexander Leydenfrost — 56
The Miniature Pinscher
No mutt but a man’s dog.
Color Photograph by Henry Waxman — 81
American Beauties, Western Style
20th Century-Fox’s Linda Darnell.
Photograph by George Hurrell — 82
Exploits of Esky
Comic strip for grownups. Pictured by E. Simms Campbell; Storied by Beep — 91
American Beauties, Eastern Style
Lenore Simon’s face and fortune.
Photograph by Paul Garrison — 103
Blue-Winged Teal
Over the Marsh.
Water Color by Walter E. Bohl — 104
SPORTS
I Couldn’t Take It
No fighter’s brain was made to withstand long the jarring and shaking that comes from hard punches.
Abe Simon — 36
Black Pirates From a Snow Blind
It’s always open season on the crow, which is clever and fast enough to defy the best of hunters.
Ben East — 41
He’s Rupp and Ready
With a shrewd flair for publicity, Kentucky’s coach is delighted to start a feud if it’s good box office.
Jimmy Jones — 53
The Sporting Scene
Facing shortages of sports equipment and players, we must consider ourselves lucky for anything we get.
Herb Graffis — 80
The Esquire Sports Poll
Majority favors the appointment of a committee by Roosevelt to regulate wartime sports.
Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon — 86
TRENDS IN DRESS
Clothes and Accessories, sketched by Pachner, Fellows, Goodman, Saalburg, Hughes — beginning on 31