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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Why Jap Pilots Take a Beating … Returned American pilots say these overtrained robots lack stamina, go berserk in emergency … Joseph Wechsberg — 37
From Babe to Battle-Axe … Why does the sweet, marriageable girl of twenty-five so often become a domineering, neurotic wife at forty? … J. George Frederick — 38
The Giant Killer’s Story … Portrait of a latter-day David, Lt. Waybur, who fought Goliath in the form of a twelve-ton, steel armored tank … Paul Gallico — 40
Buffalo Bill’s Last Stands … Recalling a candid interview with Bill Cody, showing a kind of heroism never revealed by his fictionalized press … John Wilstach — 46
Now I Stash Me Down to Nod … Harlem newspaper columnist Dan Burley gives fresh life to our language through a patter called jive … Stanley Frank — 53
How to Talk Sense in Company … Spirited argument among friends can be rational and stimulating if you follow these basic rules … Mortimer J. Adler — 59
1,600 Miles of Opportunity … Prophesying a land rush to the North when the Alaska Highway opens the way to adventurous colonists … Broadhurst Jackson — 70

DEPARTMENTS

Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury … Giving readers the last word — 10
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire … Some personal histories — 32
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments … Sweet and terrible to remember … George Jean Nathan — 84
Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf … The uncanny luck of Quentin Reynolds … Bennett Cerf — 88
The Lively Arts: In Motion Pictures It’s Timing … Pre-Oscar vote for Casablanca … Gilbert Seldes — 90
Potables: Sipping Eastward to the Sea … Prescribing Dr. Pitcher’s Parch Remedy … Lawton Mackall — 95
Jazz: The Rhythm Section … Birth of a hot music column … Leonard Feather & Paul Eduard Miller — 96
Camp Humor: Goldbricking with Esquire … Then there’s the one about the two fleas … Bruce Patterson — 98
Wearables: Furlough Weddings … The dress problem is simple for men in uniform … O. E. Schoeffler — 107
Discs: Esquire on the Record … From the Merry Macs to the Budapest String Quartet … Gilbert Seldes — 108

FICTION

Party Line at Portland … Steve told the colonel if he’d stepped from a white cart drawn by angels he would still need identification … Robert Gold — 45
The Owl That Kept Winking … The man wanted only one thing before he killed the great horned owl, and that was to break its spirit … Theodore Pratt — 48
The Faith That Failed … Father’s political Gethsemane came about through the misadventure of an eleven hundred pound Shorthorn steer … Peter B. Kyne — 54
The Turning of Radiquet … Jules had always been one of the best poachers in the village, and police were his natural enemies … Georges Surdez — 60
The Champeen of the World … Eddie’s and Joe’s friendship transcended words: they had been the two best men of their size in the U.S. … Edward L. McKenna — 68
The Admiral and the Nose … This Turk has a sweetheart of a nose which tells him on what side of a contest he should invest his beans … S. A. Tannenbaum — 76
He Had a Thousand on Him … Operating as a pair they probably educated more suckers than any of the card sharps who plied the Mississippi … David Friedman — 100

PERSONALITIES

Gwathmey’s Editorial Art … Robert Gwathmey paints with disciplined indignation … Harry Salpeter — 83

PICTORIAL FEATURES

The Giant Killer … Painted especially for Esquire by John Falter — 41
The Varga Girl … Matrimony Preferred … Verse by Phil Stack; Painting by Varga — 43
American Beauties, Eastern Style … Rebel Randall … Photograph by Anton Bruehl — 57
American Beauties, Western Style … Judy Garland … Photograph by Hurrell — 58
Broadway for the Boys … June Havoc in Mexican Hayride … Photograph by Jon Abbot — 63
Plum from the Melting Pot … Lina Romay … Photograph by Otto Dyer — 64
Old Time Songs … Strolling through the Park … Design by Staples-Smith; Photograph by Sydney Ravitz — 66
Stage Door Esquire … At the Casino Russe … Photograph by George Serebryakoff — 79
Among Hollywood’s Nebulae … Alma Carroll … Photograph by Henry Waxman — 80
Five Paintings … From the A.C.A. Gallery and private collections … by Robert Gwathmey — 82
Hollywood … Set to Music … from Rhapsody in Blue … Painted by Irving Roir — 91
To Everything a Season … Portfolio of cartoons … Painted by Leslie Saalburg — 93
Graduation Day at West Point … With a word for civilians … Paintings by Alexander Leydenfrost — 94
Good Hunting for Hellcats … Our Navy’s threat to Zeros … Paintings by Alexander Leydenfrost — 160

SPORTS

Gibbons, Pillar of St. Paul … Catching up on the current history of Tommy Gibbons … George A. Barton — 56
Dynamite for Sand Traps … This golf club makes the whole course a fairway … Tommy Armour — 62
Outdoors Is Where They Grow … There are no problem children in summer camps … LeRoy Smith — 67
The Sporting Scene … Many a pleasure yachtsman will emerge from the Navy … Hugo G. Autz — 78
Baseball’s Violent Vesuvius … Stout fellows tremble when Taylor Spink erupts … Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon — 86
The Esquire Sports Poll … Selecting the all-time best boxers … Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon — 86

BRIEFS

Exploits of a Flying Tackler … Ex-Northwestern athlete now tears into dogfights … James F. Henderson — 110

TRENDS IN DRESS

Clothes and Accessories … Sketched by Goodman, Fenton, Fellows and Murley … beginning on — 104