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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
School for Saboteurs … Sabotage being the only weapon left to the people enslaved by the Nazis, they make the most of it … Joseph Wechsberg 41
Marriage Makes Strange Bedfellows … No matter how much Romeo loves Juliet the time will come when they are in hopeless conflict … Lawrence Gould 44
The Unpredictable Profile … Leading some of the more printable bon mots of that “Monster” of invective, the late John Barrymore … John Decker 51
Japan’s Mein Kampf … The Tanaka Memorial, given to the Emperor in 1927, contains plans for Jap conquest now under way … Curt Riess 56
West Point’s First Captain … This coveted honor has served as a springboard to eternal fame for some of America’s greatest soldiers … Thom Yates 58
The Unholy Horatio Alger … Few who have read his books realize that Alger was a man of flesh, flesh that occasionally got out of hand … Stewart Holbrook 69
The Future of Air Power … Hinting at plane innovations that will revolutionize warfare as well as transportation in the postwar era … Robert W. Marks 77
I Lobby My Hobby … Practice these tricks, try them on your friends, and like most of Hollywood, you’ll be a sucker for magic … Cy Endfield 80
31 Lessons for Brass Hats and Bureaucrats … Excerpts from The Coming Battle of Germany which every American citizen should read … William B. Ziff 109
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury … The Sheep … 10
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire … The Goats … 32
The Lively Arts: Those Star and Garter Blues … Slapstick will outlive the strip … Gilbert Seldes 83
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments … Praising G. K. Chesterton’s Magic … George Jean Nathan 84
Potables: Burbles in Every Bundle … An Eggnog recipe for men of good will … Lawton Mackall 91
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette … How to be happy though Vegetarian … Iles Brody 94
Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf … An appreciation of Henry James … William Lyon Phelps 96
Potpourri: Ad Libbing With Esquire … “Many a true word …” Bruce Patterson 122
Wearables: The Fine Art of Bucking … Grooming Hints for Rookies … O. E. Schoeffler 125
FICTION
The Christmas Surrender … The greatest plot in the world and all the dynamite in Libya could not hold back the evening of Christmas … Manuel Komroff 39
Strictly Legitimate Deals … Corky said they’d had some very odd characters in his company but he figured MacClusky took the cake … Louis Paul 42
Testimonial to Hillel … After he prospered he did not forget the farmers and townsfolk who had welcomed him, an immigrant peddler … Louis Zara 46
Rose Into Cauliflower … Butch lived a double life, telling his fight manager nothing of the ballet and Anna nothing of the fighting … Mel Matison 54
61 Shopping Days ’til Love … Geranium’s heart was full as she floated down Ruby Street, leaving her messages in surprised mailboxes … Edward Harris Heth 70
Strangers Defeated … The night of the storm he realized what a difference the horse made in his life on the lonely African farm … James Stern 74
Black Angel Reef … Tobri was the best diver, fisherman and sailor on the coast, and yet everyone agreed he was better off dead … William A. Krauss 78
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Cover Design … Esky the hardy perennial … Modeled by L. S. Soderstrom
Varga Girl … Benedicts, Awake! … Verse by Franklin Reynolds; Drawing by Varga 45
Pictorial Map of America … From Associated American Artists … Painting by Miguel de Covarrubias 47
Letter from a Soldier … To his girl on Christmas … Color Photomontage by Erwin Blumenfeld 49
Travel Posters … Rejected by the Nazi Travel Bureau … Drawings by Derso and Kelen 62
March, March, Dombrowski … “Poland is not yet lost” … Painting by William Pachner 75
On the Wet Beam … Flying Fortresses in Action … Painting by Alexander Leydenfrost 76
The Birthday Team … Reproduction Courtesy of Camilla Lucas, Old Print Center, New York City 85
Dorothy Kelly … Appearing in R.K.O.’s Hitler’s Children … Photographed by Hurrell 87
Varga Calendar … “Oh how various is the scene.” … Paintings by Varga beginning on page 97
Ruffed Grouse … The winged drummer … Water Color by Walter E. Bohl 117
The English Bulldog … He never jumps at conclusions … Color photograph by Henry Waxman 118
SPORTS
Parallel Skiing vs. Stem … Maintaining you wouldn’t ski far with Loosli’s so-called parallel technique on Taft Trail or Mt. Baldy … Otto Lang 53
Basketball Scores for Business … Watch industrial basketball, modeled after the Philips plan, boom these next few years despite the war … Al Wesson 67
Big Man in a Minor League … Mike Kelley can boast of having managed or owned seven championship teams in the American Association … George A. Barton 72
The Sporting Scene … School administrators are beating old bugaboos and adopting physical training on the navy pre-flight basis … Herb Graffis 89
The Esquire Sports Poll … Debating the military value of boxing and the virtues of bare knuckle fights vs. gloves … Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon 92
TRENDS IN DRESS
New Clothes and Accessories, sketched by Hughes, Fellows and Goodman … beginning on page 156