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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

• BOYS, I’LL TAKE GIRLS… They give a quicker return for the money all the way — Cameron Shipp 35

• USUALLY DESTROYED… The recent past may still be called Earthly Paradise — Aldous Huxley 42

• BIG POKER: THE ONLY GAME… Leave little poker to the normal people — Rex Lardner 45

• HOUSTON: BIG MAN ON THE MOVE… Always upward and onward with the boom — Stanley Walker 51

• PARENTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!… The Emancipation League is your best club — Arthur Gordon 53

• THE DOZEN WORDS “NOBODY” KNOWS… There’s a linguistic inflation, too — T. K. Brown III 70

• THE CIGAR: NOBLEST SMOKE… Case history of a comeback comfort — James Cerruti 73

• THE CATFISH IN HIS CASTLE… Catfish plebeian? Try these recipes! — Hermann B. Deutsch 81

• PROLIFIC PAPAS… The figures are smaller now, but worthy of comparison — Vincent Starrett 92

COMMENT

• THIS MAN’S WORLD… Memories of Glorious Fourths, and yearnings of later years — Paul Gallico 46

PERSONALITIES

• YOUNG FIGHTER… Billy McNeece, preliminary: all heart, all fighter — W. C. Heinz 39

• KUBIN… A great artist who inhabits his picture world almost in fact — Simon Bourgin 94

FICTION

• BOURBON IS A STREET… The unwelcome guest at the birthday masquerade — Noel Digby 37

• THE SWING… There was harmony in his old world, and rhythm, but not peace — Robert Lewis 55

• NEXT DADDY… She was letter-perfect in her act; if only Jackie was — George Victor Martin 58

• LUCKY OLD SUN… Your children can beat you every time — Robert Switzer 75

PICTORIAL

• THE CAT’S WHISKERS… Jazz dictionary—international and unabridged — Robert J. Lee & Orrin Keepnews 40

• ESQUIRE’S LADY FAIR… Anita Ekberg — Painting by Mike Ludlow 47

• ESQUIRE’S AVENUES OF FASHION… Main Street, Houston — Water color by Juliette Kida Renault 49

• STAGE CENTER: AMERICA’S EUGENE O’NEILL… — Photography by Erwin Blumenfeld 54

• ROOMS WITH A VIEW… And a Dream: Ava Norring — Photography by Robert Halmi 60

WEARABLES

• COOLER HEADS PREVAIL… Blue ice and brown ice: cool, appetizing and dignified for city summers 56

• SHORE LINE… The bright colors get brighter as they move beyond the city limits 88

• THE CHILDREN’S HOUR… Sartorial elegance for the young fry 91

• TRUNK LINE… Seven styles to sink or swim in 96

GIFT SUPPLEMENT

• FATHER’S DAY FAVORITES… Dressing up Father for the day he calls his own 28

• FATHER’S DAY FAVORITES… A four-page guide for pleasing that young old man (For a list of stores displaying these gifts, see page 132) 77

TRAVEL

• VACATION NOW… New York’s Long Island; what it is and what it has 14

• NY… If you’re looking for variety, try a New York State vacation — Richard Joseph 84

POTABLES

• ESQUIRE’S CLASSIC DRINK NO. 3 71

DEPARTMENTS

• Publisher’s Page: Three Useless Things 6

• Editorial: “My Pop Can Beat Your Pop!” 8

• THE SOUND AND THE FURY 10

• ESQUIRE ON RECORD 26

• DINING IN/OUT WITH ESQUIRE 30

• ESQUIRE’S FASHION FINDS — O. E. Schoeffler 33

BRIEF

• GRIBNEY’S GOMOBILE — U. S. Andersen 132

ESQUIRE’S BUYING GUIDE

• FATHER’S DAY FAVORITES 132

TALKING SHOP

• SHOPPING FINDS… beginning on 133

Credits: Cover photography by Peter Dimitri; cover model, Phyllis Newell; nightgown worn by Ava Norring on page 62 by Odette Barsa; the engraving for The Cigar: Noblest Smoke, page 73, from Bettmann Archive; the photographs on page 84 are by FPG, Lanks-Black Star; on page 85 by Goldman-Rapho-Guillermette.

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