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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Collecting Hot: 1944. . . . Sequel to a 1934 piece with bibliographies of records and jazz magazines to make the novice hip. — Charles Edward Smith — 27
Esquire’s All-American Jazz Band. . . . Naming top artists of the piano, sax, drums, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, bass, guitar, voice, odd instruments. — Robert Goffin — 28
Consequences of a Social Call. . . . The visit that Pvt. Layutey saved thousands of American soldiers and won a medal for Col. Pierrepont Hamilton. — Paul Gallico — 30
Jazz Is Where You Find It. . . . Answering queries on hot jazz, boogie-woogie, swing, bands, soloists, jive talk, melody and rhythm. — Leonard G. Feather — 35
Mysteries of the Fathomless Sea. . . . Granted sailors are superstitious, but immortal fools can say whether these stories are true. — Albert Richard Wetjen — 42
The Fourth Reich Casts a Shadow. . . . Schacht, Messner, Krupp, Thyssen, and other Nazis plan to wash their reputations whiter than snow. — Curt Riess — 49
Plastics on the Fighting Front. . . . Our Army’s flexibility is shown by its quick use of new materials to save vital steel, aluminum and brass. — W. L. Burton — 61
“Calling Doctor Dentifrice”. . . . Proposing a soap opera about Rinse, the D.M.D., complete with throbbing love interest, suspense and sound effects. — Hovey Wright — 64
Adventures of the Intruder. . . . Czech refugee’s progress from the Foreign Legion to France, to Casablanca to smashing Hun bombers for the R.A.F. — Alan Hynd — 70
Crimes and Loco Motives. . . . Case histories displaying the wacky impulses that incite ordinarily sane and harmless people to commit murder. — Clement J. Wyle — 94
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury. . . . Naked truth needs no shift. — 10
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire. . . . Communiqués from our writers. — 22
The Lively Arts: The Incomparable Bing. . . . There will always be a Crosby. — Gilbert Seldes — 38
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments. . . . Lonsdale’s delusion of America. — George Jean Nathan — 82
Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf. . . . The case of the Gertrude Stein manuscript. — Bennett Cerf — 86
Potables: Whistles in the Dark. . . . Debunking the gossip about liquor stocks. — Lawton Mackall — 88
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette. . . . Hamburger delights the soul of the swing musician. — Iles Brody — 93
Camp Humor: Goldbricking with Esquire. . . . Servicemen build up civilian morale. — Bruce Patterson — 96
Discs: Esquire on the Record. . . . What to buy for now, for keeps and what to expect. — O. E. Schoeffler — 105
Wearables: Nothing Is Sacred. . . . The deadlier sex adopts our topcoats, shorts, et al. — 108
FICTION
What Gives Since Memphis? . . . This Blue Waters is but a character and Blue likes the dames so much he gave up Dixieland for life. — Richard English — 36
Hath Charms to Soothe. . . . Dmitri never knew what hit him after he played G-sharp on his clarinet and got that strange, electric thrill. — Bryan Marvin — 44
The Wheel of the Law. . . . Kathleen felt the prayer wheel turned Geoffrey’s thoughts back to India, and it kindled her wifely jealousy. — W. G. Mayne — 50
The Absent-Minded Marine. . . . It was wise to remember the password among those trigger-happy people, but he’d never been to Harvard. — Frank X. Tolbert — 58
A Sudden Gust of Wind. . . . Bernabe was a tobacco hand who masked his feelings and said nothing when the plantation boss rode by. — Carlos Montenegro — 62
The Sacrifice of Sarah Jo. . . . Tragicomic story of a hillbilly girl who considered no sacrifice too great to help her country in time of war. — George Milburn — 73
High Climber in a Hurry. . . . Jack didn’t mind clinging to a Douglas fir trunk a hundred feet up, but he didn’t relish the smell of smoke. — Clay Perry — 74
POETRY
I Lest Stand Hyar, Laughin’. . . . David done some sin but he also seved. — Roark Bradford — 60
PERSONALITIES
The Compleat Eater. . . . M. F. K. Fisher is unique among writers about food. — Sidney Carroll — 52
Immigrant’s Rock-Bound Coast. . . . Rockport, Mass., is Sol Wilson’s spiritual home. — Harry Salpeter — 81
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Cover Design. . . . Model: Helen Bennett. . . . Setting: Staples-Smith. . . . Photograph: Sidney Ravitz — 31
The Mission at Port Lyautey. . . . Painted especially for Esquire by John Falter — 33
The Varga Girl. . . . Torch Singer. . . . Verse by Phil Stack — 33
American Beauties, Western Style. . . . Dinah Shore. . . . Photograph by George Hurrell — 39
The Esquire Canteen. . . . Margo at the Monte Carlo Beach Club. . . . Photograph by Anton Bruehl — 40
Stage Door Esquire. . . . Duke Ellington at the Hurricane. . . . Photograph by George Serebryakoff — 45
One-Woman Jam Session. . . . MGM’s Lena Horne. . . . Photograph by William Stone — 46
The Very Merry Widow. . . . Betty Grable. . . . Photograph by Frank Powolny — 48
Rhapsody in Midnight Blue. . . . Emily Smith. . . . Photograph by Henry Waxman — 65
American Beauties, Eastern Style. . . . Jackie Copeland. . . . Photograph by Sidney Ravitz — 66
Broadway for the Boys. . . . Constellation from Stars on Ice. . . . Photograph by Jon Abbot — 68
Four Paintings. . . . Courtesy of the Babcock Galleries, New York City. . . . by Sol Wilson — 80
The Ventura. . . . Dishes to cut and take it. . . . Painting by Alexander Leydenfrost — 89
Manners before Morals. . . . The world in a nutshell. . . . by Howard Baer — 90
Commissioned Naval Officers’ Mess. . . . Dr. Livingstone wears stripes. . . . Painting by Leslie Saalburg — 92
Winter Mobile Units. . . . “The horse knows the way.” . . . Robert Goodman — 141
SPORTS
Let Louis Meet Conn. . . . But you can’t expect Joe to risk his title just for fun. — Abe J. Greene — 41
Skiing in Time of War. . . . On transportation and instruction at the various resorts. — Otto Lang — 57
The Sporting Scene. . . . Musing on the extraordinary childhood of the tots on ice. — Herb Graffis — 69
The Fastest Human. . . . Reviewing the record of the late Capt. Charley Paddock. — Al Wesson — 76
The Esquire Sports Poll. . . . Babe Ruth gets the ballots for personality. — Ralph Cannon — 84
BRIEFS
Tired? Then Sprint. . . . Track Coach Billy Hayes says fatigue is only mental. — L. C. Tolbert — 111
Comedy from the Fields of Sports. . . . Favorite gags of an umpire, a ball player, et al. — Ralph Cannon — 120
New England Goes Candlepin Crazy. . . . The game is faster and strikes are rarer. — Worthen C. Cornish — 142
African Opera—of Two Stages. . . . “Camera” was a loathed cry to the elephants. — Comdr. Attilio Gatti — 143
TRENDS IN DRESS
Clothes and Accessories, sketched by Goodman, Saalburg, Hughes and Fellows. . . . beginning on 102