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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
The Straight Dope from Daddy. A frank letter from a bridegroom to his future son, to be read when the boy is seventeen. — Joseph Roger Carr — 31
Proposition: Am I a Good Father. Arguing that time erects certain barriers and any man who claims he and his son are buddies is a liar. — Franklin P. Adams — 34
Ralph De Palma’s Glorious Failure. Dawson won the 1912 race, but De Palma earned a cheer never again heard in Indianapolis. — Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker — 38
Why You Are Different! By their reactions to his cartoon you can probe the psyches of your unsuspecting friends. — Lts. W. T. Pratt & R. W. Wilkerson — 43
The Magnificent American Male. The war wasn’t fought in vain if some sturdily assertive feminists step down to their normal role. — Sgt. Gene Philip Fortuna — 54
The Mad Emperor of Long Island. Jacques Lebaudy’s imperial adventures began in Africa, where he used his millions to hire subjects. — Victor Boesen — 60
Life Afloat with Father. Whether sailing a canoe or catboat, becalmed or in a raging squall, the Old Man never lost his British aplomb. — Ira Henry Freeman — 65
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury. Our piquant critics. — 10
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire. The Belles-Lettres Boys. — 26
Opinion: This Man’s World. On the terrible beauty of democracy in arms. — Paul Gallico — 46
Books: Obscenity and Obscurity. Questioning the literary value of dirty words. — Sinclair Lewis — 51
The Lively Arts: The Songs America Sings. A supplement to Sing Out, Sweet Land. — Gilbert Seldes — 57
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette. Recipes for Vichyssoise and Eggs Beurre Noir. — Iles Brody — 68
Jazz: The Rhythm Section. Papa Haydn and Louis Armstrong. — Leonard Feather & Paul Eduard Miller — 76
Education: Esquire’s Ready-to-Speak Spanish II. Short-cut lesson in grammar. — Frank Henius — 78
Potables: There’s Rum Without Tears. Sunshine Cocktail and Fish House Punch. — Lawton Mackall — 97
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments. With emphasis on Foolish Notion. — George Jean Nathan — 98
Anecdotes: Going the Rounds With Esquire. The Pilot and the Seabees. — 100
Wearables: F-Day Minus Seven. Alerting all offspring for Father’s Day. — O. E. Schoeffler — 109
Discs: Esquire on the Record. The Song of Songs according to Orson Welles. — Gilbert Seldes — 116
FICTION
The Valley of the Shadow. When the doctor said there was still some reason to hope, Mr. Walton despaired for the life of his beloved son. — T. K. Brown III — 32
Showdown at the Turnagain. Lud Kilbane was a noisy patriot, always searching for slackers, fond of reminding folks, “There’s a war on.” — Kenneth Gilbert — 36
Back to the Farm Up Home. With all the emotion of a night-club crooner he longed for growing things, the good clean smell of manure. — George Victor Martin — 44
The Devil of the Woods. Laban took little interest in his fur pelts for he was consumed with a desire for revenge against the wolverine. — Paul Annixter — 52
Something Rotten in Mozambique. Nick Sideris, an ex-patriot in Lourenço Marques, was delighted to help a fellow American. — T. E. Kruglak — 58
A Horse Named Stringbean. The aged race-track tout had the heart of a child and he lived in a never-never land where right always triumphed. — Richard Bry — 66
Breakfast on the Ferryboat. Anderson seemed strangely commonplace among the artists and adventurers and dreamers of Tahiti. — Donald Barr Chidsey — 74
PERSONALITIES
Art Career in Two Keys. Recalling the crackers and milk days of Milton Avery. — Harry Salpeter — 73
PICTORIAL FEATURES
De Palma Pushes His Mercedes Home. Painted especially for Esquire by Peter Helck. — 39
Varga Girl. Classic Example. Verse by Phil Stack; Painting by Varga. — 41
American Beauties, Western Style. Ann Sheridan. — Photograph by Hurrell — 55
The Esquire Canteen. Seven Lively Arts. — Photograph by Anton Bruehl — 56
American Beauties, Eastern Style. June Bright. — Photograph by Hurrell — 61
Broadway for the Boys. The dancing De Marcos. — Photograph by Gjon Mili — 64
Among Hollywood’s Nebulae. Ruth Hall. — Photograph by Henry Waxman — 69
Cartoon Spread. Firecracks. — Drawings by Frank Beaven — 70
A Group of Paintings. Courtesy of Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York. — Milton Avery — 72
Hollywood… Set to Music. Gloria De Haven of Step Lively. — Photograph by Eric Carpenter — 81
Esquiregraph No. 9. W. C. Fields. — Photocollage by Ravitz-Palazzo — 84
Graduation Day at King’s Point. Hailing the U. S. Merchant Marines. — Painting by Leslie Saalburg — 93
Father’s Day Gift Portfolio. Suggestions for June 17. — Color Photograph by Sydney Ravitz — 94
Boeing’s C-97. The cargo and troop transport. — Painting by Alexander Leydenfrost — 96
SPORTS
No Fun in Sports Rules. Hints for punching up the Olympics and other games. — Herb Graffis — 85
They Made Me a Cinderella. Baseball success story, as told to Ralph Cannon. — Luke Sewell — 86
The Boy Gets a Chance. Bright prospects for Esquire’s All-American Game. — Joe Hendrickson — 87
The Esquire Sports Poll. Women vote on sports and on athletes as husbands. — 88
Bobby Jones on Golf’s Future. Looking forward to Good Neighbor Tourneys. — O. B. Keeler — 90
Any Man Can Run. There’s the English style, the flatfoot and the Finnish. — Charles B. Roth — 92
BRIEFS
Gone with the Windfall. Aussie tears and laughter speed the departing Yanks. — Sidney Carroll — 33
Few Men Are Worth Looking At. A certain lady sculptress had better think twice. — Parke Cummings — 37
How to Be a Poker Wolf. Rules for bluffing, folding and bumping the pot. — Joseph A. Wing — 91
TRENDS IN DRESS
Clothes and Accessories by Saalburg, Runnette, Murley and Ivers — beginning on 106