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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COMMENT
MOTHER . . . The greeting-card rack inspires a call to arms . . . Aldous Huxley 31
REFLECTIONS AFTER THE CURTAINS FALL . . . Pedestals for short-term lease . . . George Jean Nathan 33
THIS MAN’S WORLD . . . A valentine from afar, with lace and modern art . . . Paul Gallico 34
FICTION
BOWERY IDYLL . . . An hour’s glory, then back to the crawl through time . . . Leo Dillon Murtagh 37
THE DAMNEDEST THING . . . It’s not like he couldn’t spare it . . . Garson Kanin 63
DEMISE OF A GOLDFISH . . . Sometimes it pays to give a murderer an even break . . . Walter Brooks 80
ARTICLES
GADFLY OF MEDICINE . . . The Lancet: it reports the world through doctors’ eyes . . . Caroline Bird 42
THE DRINK THAT MADE HISTORY . . . Cognac, from the town of the same name . . . Oscar Schisgall 46
ST. LOUIS: THE DOWAGER CITY . . . It’s a great place to live in . . . Peter Wyden 51
MADISON’S PRODIGAL PROPHET . . . Frank Lloyd Wright and his Monona Terrace . . . Warrington Colescott 58
HOW HIGH IS HI-FI? . . . Dispelling that fascinating aura of mystery . . . Igor Buketoff 85
CROSS SECTION U.S.A.: MILL TOWN . . . Passaic, N.J.: It’s through being belted around . . . Monroe Fry 90
PERSONALITY
LIGHT-TACKLE MAN . . . Tommy Gifford, the dean of charter-boat captains . . . George Wiswell 67
PICTORIAL
AUDREY HEPBURN: NIGHT SPRITE . . . Sophisticated pixie . . . Photograph by Erwin Blumenfeld 35
ESQUIRE’S LADY FAIR . . . Marjorie Hellen . . . Photograph by William Read Woodfield 47
ESQUIRE’S AVENUE OF FASHION . . . Ollie Street, St. Louis . . . Drawing by Juliette Kida Renault 49
BRITTANY SPANIEL: DUAL CHAMPION HELGRAMITE HOWIE D’ACAJOU . . . Photograph by Carl Perutz 71
BEAUTY AND THE BATIK . . . Venetia Stevenson . . . Photograph by Don Ornitz 72
GILBERT BUNDY’S NEW YORK . . . Verbal and pictorial vignettes . . . Sketches by Gilbert Bundy 76
XV CENTURIES NEW . . . We give you, for your selection, the old and the new . . . 88
WEARABLES
INTERNATIONAL AIR: TRAVEL LIGHT AND LIKE IT . . . Careful color accents and rich new fabrics . . . 40
RESORT REPORT . . . Soft and easy textures follow a relaxed line to bold patterns.
(For stores featuring these fashions, see page 120) . . . 56
HE & SCHI . . . Ski equipment: the boot contains antifreeze liquid . . . 78
SURPRISE PACKAGE: PEACOCK TONES HAVE ARRIVED . . . Overtones of elegance in dinner jackets . . . 91
TRAVEL
THE COUNTRYSIDE OF EUROPE . . . For your choice: the high spots . . . Richard Joseph 95
VACATION NOW . . . Facts and figures and atmosphere for planning your trip . . . 108
DEPARTMENTS
Publisher’s Page: GO LIGHT, YOUNG MAN . . . 6
Editorial: TIME AND AGAIN . . . 8
THE SOUND AND THE FURY . . . 10
DINING IN/OUT WITH ESQUIRE . . . 18
ESQUIRE ON RECORD . . . 21
BACKSTAGE WITH ESQUIRE . . . 26
ESQUIRE’S FASHION FINDS . . . O. E. Schoeffler 28
WET-WEATHER FRIEND . . . 28B
GIFTS
ESQUIRE’S GIFT GALLERY . . . 86
ESQUIRE’S BUYING GUIDE
RESORT REPORT . . . 120
TALKING SHOP
SHOPPING FINDS . . . beginning on 133
CREDITS: Cover photography is by Dan Wynn. Miss Marjorie Hellen, who appears on the gatefold, can be seen in Twentieth Century-Fox’s Rains of Ranchipur. The imported merchandise on He & Schi, pages 78 and 79, is available through Sig Buchmayr, New York City. On pages 88, 89, XV Centuries New, Interfoto is from Black Star.
ADVERTISERS’ INDEX . . . 131