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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COMMENT
PLEASURES . . . The patterns of pleasure are the same as they were thousands of years ago — Aldous Huxley 27
THIS MAN’S WORLD . . . Small girls, wonderful wizards, and to-be-remembered birthdays — Paul Gallico 30
FICTION
SANDERSON’S SEVERAL WARS . . . He’d won two, but the third was the decisive one — Robert Switzer 37
ABOUT TIME TO GO SOUTH . . . When only two are left, memory is a wonderful thing — Douglas Angus 42
THE SITUATION OF GASTON . . . Armor is a handy thing to have for family arguments — A. D. Wintle 56
ARTICLES
THE JOB OF GETTING A JOB . . . Six rules for a smashing personal success — Ralph Ginzburg 39
LE MANOIR DE BÉCHERON . . . A great house with personality and history — John Wheelock Freeman 44
HOW TO WIN $100 A WEEK GAMBLING . . . You can do it if you stick to the realities — Al Morehead 51
GREAT SCOTT! . . . He’ll be the leader of one of tomorrow’s great jazz bands — Bruce Mitchell 63
CROSS SECTION U.S.A.: ELECTRIC TOWN . . . Schenectady is a man’s town — Monroe Fry 87
PERSONALITIES
GAD! . . . Elia Kazan: winner of two Oscars and show-business top guy — Frederic Morton 49
KIM . . . Her second chances, like your understanding of her, are there for the drilling — Robert W. Marks 66
SUPPLEMENT
LONDON’S CASBAH: SOHO . . . Twelve pages of the last of our Bohemias — Denis & Charlotte Plimmer 71
PICTORIAL
MAL MASQUE: NEW ORLEANS . . . The devious search for wealth — Photography by Lyle Bongé 35
CHECKMATE . . . Twenty-three views and a skidoo — Photography by Desmond Russell 40
MADNESS IN THE METHOD . . . Do these captions express you? — Photography by Dan Wynn 48
A SOUTHERNER’S VIEW OF THE NORTH . . . Dark and true and tender, and by Grant Wood 52
A NORTHERNER’S VIEW OF THE SOUTH . . . Sunny and pillared and gay — Paintings by Erik Blegvad 53
WEST OF EDEN . . . Another Eve, another sea — Photography by Philippe Halsman 60
AFRICA: EQUATORIAL OR ESQUITORIAL . . . Esky in Nigeria — Photograph by Ken Schmid 64
WEARABLES
DESERT SONG . . . Printed designs on cotton shirts are bold and rhythmic 54
ACCORDING TO CUSTOM . . . What the well-dressed traveler will wear and pack 58
LOW TIDE: HIGH FASHION . . . Here’s a man who’s always in the swim 84
UNDERWEAR-WITHALS . . . Four first-places in comfort and fit 85
HITTING THE HIGH C’S . . . There’s character in these dashing fashions 88
THE 44-POUND WORLD WARDROBE . . . Here’s what to pack and what to pack it in 99
YOUNG MAN IN A SCOOT SUIT . . . For the man on top of a fast success 109
THE ESQUIRE GUIDEBOOK
VACATION NOW . . . How to get to Europe and what it will cost you in time and money 18
EUROPE ’57 . . . A full view of the more traveled countries, a peep at others — Richard Joseph 95
POTABLES
ESQUIRE’S CLASSIC DRINK NO. 13: HOT BUTTERED RUM . . . Insulation for the cold days 62
DEPARTMENTS
Publisher’s Page: ON THE COVER 6
Editorial: COLD LOGIC 8
THE SOUND AND THE FURY 12
DINING IN/OUT WITH ESQUIRE 14
ESQUIRE ON RECORD 17
GIFTS
ESQUIRE’S GIFT GALLERY 91
TALKING SHOP
SHOPPING FINDS . . . beginning on 133
ESQUIRE’S BUYING GUIDE
For where to buy the wearables, beginning on page 54 129
CREDITS:
Chessmen on the cover from the Carlebach Gallery, New York City; Kim Novak’s negligee, page 69, from Iris Lingerie.
ADVERTISERS’ INDEX . . . 129