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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Shape of Things to Come
The course of the war has repeatedly made saps of radio commentators, journalists, statesmen and other forecasters.
John R. Tunis — 31
Cupid Is a Hypocrite
No wonder so many marriages are unhappy, considering how dishonestly and unscrupulously people behave when in love.
Fred C. Kelly — 34
Twice-Told Truth About Japan
She has never contended with a first-rate power and her vaunted military strength is just a bubble.
James R. Young — 43
Hypnotism Grows Up
Psychologists Rowland and Wells have made an honest science of hypnotism, once known as “black magic.”
S. S. Tomlinson — 84
Does Xmas Get in Your Hair?
Lady-in-the-know pilots make shoppers safely past shoals of trite parcels to gifts that women treasure.
Sarada Murfin Robbins — 86
Who Was Joe Miller?
Old joke books dating as early as the 16th century show that radio, stage and cartoon gag men only change the words.
Robert O. Foote — 94
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury
Every reader an editor. — 18
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire
Are writers people? — 26
Motors: Bombs Over Broadway
What the Axis could do to New York.
Robert W. Marks — 80
The Lively Arts: Anything for a Laugh
On military defense comedy.
Gilbert Seldes — 98
Wearables: Tips for the Snow Trail
Clothes and clothes for skiers.
O. E. Schoeffler — 104
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments
Craven shouldn’t talk.
George Jean Nathan — 105
Potables: Gifts That Gurgle
Bearing good will for the inner man.
Lawton Mackall — 108
Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf
The amazing prophecy of Thomas Gray.
William Lyon Phelps — 110
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette
When in Florida don’t snub the fish.
Iles Brody — 113
Records: Esquire on the Record
Pluggery songs of Free China.
Carleton Smith — 114
Music: Roulades and Cadenzas
The best musicians are none too good for Mozart.
Carleton Smith — 123
FICTION
That Which Was Spoken
The general confessed that controlling the subject nations was more difficult than conquering them through warfare.
Horatio Winslow — 33
The Storm Cloud
It started with one of those sudden streaks of crackpot carelessness that every air pilot gets once in a while.
Roger L. Treat — 36
Traced in Moonlight
Judas willingly follows the three ruffians to the Temple in Jerusalem to proclaim that his Master is King over all.
Manuel Komroff — 46
Herr Umlaut’s Hospitality
It would have been all right if the gentle professor hadn’t boasted so much in Bavaria about his New World prosperity.
Robert Z. Melville — 50
Lesson of a Cockfight
He told her he was going stale on their dance routine and needed to see something different, get some new ideas.
Benedict Thielen — 61
At the Way Station
The old man told his son how he had traveled and worked, never hearing the dialect of his native place.
Martin Savela — 66
Tale of the Bad Brothers
Uncle Theodore, who was tough as all hell, came joyously every year to see the sights and punish the four rascals.
Sándor Hunyady — 103
PERSONALITIES
The Happy Tragedist
Lillian Hellman, author of The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine and other top-drawer drama, is no pale introvert.
Sidney Carroll — 59
The Master of Vermont
Paul Sample makes art a kind and pleasing, story-telling thing even if not a mighty, tormenting and compelling thing.
Harry Salpeter — 91
Field Day in Hollywood
That faithful bloodhound, your Hollywood reporter, makes a heroic effort to tree the evasive Miss Betty Field.
Donald Hough — 96
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Cover Design
Esky and Galatea.
Modeled by L. S. Soderstrom
Three Holiday Moods
A dream of fair women.
Color Photographs by Paul Garrison — 39
Welsh Corgi
He is a See-all, Hear-all.
Color Photograph by Henry Waxman — 58
Varga Calendar
Twelve reasons for embracing 1942.
Verse by Phil Stack; Paintings by Varga — 67
Gifts for Her
Suggestions showing imagination.
Color Photography by Leon de Vos — 87
Winter Visitor
Courtesy of Ferargil Galleries, N. Y. C.
Painting by Paul Sample — 89
Gifts for Him
From beer mug to barometer.
Color Photography by Leon de Vos — 99
Blind-man’s Buff
From the Collection of Joel Spitz.
Robert Cruikshank — 101
Mixed Company
’Tis the season to be jolly.
Photography by Leon de Vos — 109
Sally
Undiscovered movie extra.
Photograph by Hurrell — 111
Margie
A Hollywood fashion model.
Photograph by Hurrell — 112
Boxted Confider
Champion Suffolk Stallion.
Painting by Wesley Dennis — 138
POETRY
The Boils and Bildads of Job
Illustration by Howard Baer; Verse by Roark Bradford — 32
Varga Calendar
Verse by Phil Stack — 67
SATIRE
Snow With Oomph
The inventor’s high-pressure promoter could see plenty of commercial possibilities in snowflakes of varying hue.
Parke Cummings — 38
You’re in the Army Now!
Private Bradley felt sure he had some kind of rare-like disease, because he wearied so easy on the drill field.
Louis Paul — 62
Columnists’ Fifth Column
Police reporter busts into the Twenty-one and other joints to organize a spy ring and corner the rumor racket.
Curt Riess — 79
The Corpse Talks Back
Separating mystery books into such categories as the Had I But Known, the Hard-boiled and Mice in the Attic.
Frank Gruber — 106
SPORTS
The Translated Bobby Jones
Guy who saw former golf champ win thirteen national titles tells how he’d rank in today’s low-score events.
O. B. Keeler — 45
Rose Bowl—Gold Bowl
Pasadena doesn’t mind getting the short end of the game’s receipts, being chiefly interested in the big parade.
Al Wesson — 48
Ring of the Cash Register
Monopoly in big-time boxing threatens to edge the sport toward the same non-competitive burlesque as wrestling.
Joseph Triner — 64
The Esquire Sports Poll
Counting votes on such debatable questions as legalized bookies, the center-jump in basketball…
Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon — 82
The Sporting Scene
What’s cooking in heavyweight boxing, defense activities of boating sportsmen and cheering news for golfers.
Herb Graffis — 93
TRENDS IN DRESS
New Clothes, Accessories, sketched by Goodman, Hughes, Fellows — beginning on page 122