Esquire Magazine January 1945 cover featuring Varga Calendar Girls and WWII themes, showcasing colorful artwork with a vintage aesthetic.
Esquire Magazine January 1945 front view, highlighting Varga Calendar Girls and World War II illustrations, captured in good condition with visible signs of age.
Esquire Magazine January 1945 featuring the contents page, showcasing articles and features of the issue, including categories such as articles, departments, fiction, and trends in dress.
Esquire Magazine January 1945 Varga Calendar Girls illustration for January, depicting a blonde woman posed seductively with a flower-covered fan, highlighting vintage pin-up artistry.
Esquire Magazine January 1945 Varga Calendar Girls illustration for May, showcasing two women in artistic poses, one upside down and the other in a glamorous swimsuit, representing 1940s pin-up style.
Esquire Magazine January 1945 Varga Calendar Girls illustration for August, featuring a blonde woman in a stylish green swimsuit sitting gracefully, exuding vintage charm and elegance.
Esquire Magazine January 1945 Varga Calendar Girls illustration for September, presenting an attractive woman in a playful outfit and a sailor costume, capturing the essence of 1940s pin-up art.
Esquire Magazine January 1945 features Van Heusen advertisement showcasing formal wear options for Christmas, including ties and suits, from an era when American fashion was adapting post-WWII.
Esquire Magazine January 1945 highlights the back cover illustration with a humorous character, Throckmorton Ploop, promoting Pabst Blue Ribbon beer with trophies and a relaxing setting, reflecting post-war America.
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Esquire Magazine January 1945 cover featuring Varga Calendar Girls and WWII themes, showcasing colorful artwork with a vintage aesthetic.Esquire Magazine January 1945 front view, highlighting Varga Calendar Girls and World War II illustrations, captured in good condition with visible signs of age.Esquire Magazine January 1945 featuring the contents page, showcasing articles and features of the issue, including categories such as articles, departments, fiction, and trends in dress.Esquire Magazine January 1945 Varga Calendar Girls illustration for January, depicting a blonde woman posed seductively with a flower-covered fan, highlighting vintage pin-up artistry.Esquire Magazine January 1945 Varga Calendar Girls illustration for May, showcasing two women in artistic poses, one upside down and the other in a glamorous swimsuit, representing 1940s pin-up style.Esquire Magazine January 1945 Varga Calendar Girls illustration for August, featuring a blonde woman in a stylish green swimsuit sitting gracefully, exuding vintage charm and elegance.Esquire Magazine January 1945 Varga Calendar Girls illustration for September, presenting an attractive woman in a playful outfit and a sailor costume, capturing the essence of 1940s pin-up art.Esquire Magazine January 1945 features Van Heusen advertisement showcasing formal wear options for Christmas, including ties and suits, from an era when American fashion was adapting post-WWII.Esquire Magazine January 1945 highlights the back cover illustration with a humorous character, Throckmorton Ploop, promoting Pabst Blue Ribbon beer with trophies and a relaxing setting, reflecting post-war America.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Small Business for the Yanks … Citing air trucking and rural construction in the States, food processing and boat building in Alaska … Gus Larson 43

Atlantic Homecoming: Christmastime … From deserts to jungles American lads have prayed: “Now I lay me down to sleep a day nearer home” … Ira Wolfert 46

Hank Luisetti: Basketball Wizard … Recalling the spectacular game in 1936 when the great player led Stanford to victory over L.I.U. … Ward Lambert 51

A Visitor from America … The Czechs had formed their view of the distant land from headlines about tremendous crime and heat waves … Joseph Wechsberg 54

Greatest Gold Strike in America … “Free gold in the bull quartz” was the battle cry of the great rush to Porcupine, Ontario … Clay Perry & John L. E. Pell 63

What Makes a Perfect Lover … Elixir of the youthful, roughhouse and crazy types of wooing is this perfect formula: passionate indifference … Jack Benny 69

DEPARTMENTS

Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury … Of Pin-ups and Sophistry … 10

Contributors: Backstage with Esquire … Authors’ inspection … 38

Jazz: The Rhythm Section … Blue notes in the home … Paul Eduard Miller & Leonard Feather 86

Opinion: This Man’s World … Whatever happened to common courtesy? … Paul Gallico 97

The Lively Arts: Should the Movies Tell? … The adventures of Frederic March … Gilbert Seldes 105

Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments … Of hits in the hinterland … George Jean Nathan 106

Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf … Random book list for Christmas shoppers … Bennett Cerf 108

Edibles: Man the Kitchenette … Directions for good eating in Paris … Iles Brody 113

Anecdotes: Going the Rounds with Esquire … Have you heard this one? … 116

Potables: Make Mine Bottled … One-man campaign against white elephants … Lawton Mackall 121

Discs: Esquire on the Record … The Coffee Cantata and Sally Don’t You Grieve … Gilbert Seldes 124

Wearables: Mustered into Mufti … To war veterans starting a civilian wardrobe … O. E. Schoeffler 128

FICTION

Satan Up a Side Road … Money, that root of all evil, was flowing in the Dry Hill country and evil was the Reverend Sin-Splitter’s meat … Roark Bradford 44

Spanish Spoken Here … Blood being thicker than water, it seemed only right to Sam’s wife to phone his dear brother in Buenos Aires … Max Shulman 52

The War of the Rheingold … The German ambassador offered a solution to the mass murder in New York, Washington and Philadelphia … Otto Eisenschiml 64

A Home with the Latest Gadgets … Hard by the escalators stood Honeymoon Cottage, quite a revelation to a hillbilly from North Carolina … Brendan Gill 70

Episode at a Nazi Chess Club … Had the Underground not been hard-pressed it would not have imperiled its General Staff contact … Charles Edward Gray 100

SEMI-FICTION

Black Sheep No. Four: Ethelda … She was a strange breed of career girl acting without regard for others and against her own interests … Theodore Dreiser 85

PERSONALITIES

The Genius of Samuel Morse … The great inventor is tardily honored as a painter … Kurt Steel 88

PICTORIAL FEATURES

Homecoming, New York Harbor: Christmastime … Painted especially for Esquire by Stevan Dohanos 47

Luisetti Scores Again Stanford vs. L.I.U., Dec. 30, 1936 … Painted especially for Esquire by James Bingham 49

The Esquire Canteen … The great Cardini … Photograph by Anton Bruehl 67

American Beauties, Western Style … Maxine Fife … Photograph by Hurrell 68

Varga Calendar … Verses by Phil Stack; Paintings by Varga 73

American Beauties, Eastern Style … Lizabeth Scott … Photograph by Jon Abbott 89

Among Hollywood’s Nebulae … Janis Paige … Photograph by Henry Waxman 90

Hollywood … Set to Music. Tonight and Every Night … Photograph by Coburn 95

The Black Widow Flies at Night … Northrop’s P-61 … Painting by Alexander Leydenfrost 96

Broadway for the Boys … Hats Off to Ice … Photograph by James Snyder 101

Let Nothing You Dismay … Portfolio of cartoons … by Frank Beaven 102

Esquiregraph No. 3 … Edgar Bergen … Photocollage by Ravitz-Palazzo 104

Folio of Holiday Gifts … Including All-Weather Friends … Kodachromes by Sydney Ravitz 109

SPORTS

They Shouldn’t Come Back … When punch-drunk pugs try to fight it’s murder … Abe J. Greene 66

Flyers with Hickory Wings … Recounting some of the hazards of famous ski jumpers … Frank Elkins 72

The Esquire Sports Poll … Rose Bowl game of 1929 voted all-time best … Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon 98

The Sporting Scene … How organized sports muffed its biggest opportunity … Herb Graffis 114

TRENDS IN DRESS

Clothes and Accessories … Sketched by Runnette, Fenton, Fellows and Murley … beginning on 130

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