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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

THE HOBOKEN BLUES … It’s a lively dirge for what might have been … Monroe Fry 41
APFELSTRUDEL AND OLD LACE … In Vienna, only Demel’s remains unchanged … Joseph Wechsberg 51
WHY MEN FALL IN LOVE … Philters under a gentle microscope … George Wiswell 52
WINNING THE WAR WITH WOMEN … This time you get in the extra words … Will Stanton 71
SEA IDYLL … In the wrecked ship he found another humpback whale—a female … Sally Carrighar 78
LOWDOWN ON LEO … The safest generality on the lion is that he is unpredictable … Robert Ruark 89
COLLECTIVIZED SPORT … It makes a mockery of amateurism … Frank Sacks 92

COMMENT

THIS MAN’S WORLD … Sex, plots and rivals … Paul Gallico 48

PERSONALITY

SATCHMO … Louis Armstrong I, II, III, and the greatest of these is II … Leonard Feather 80

FICTION

THE TARLETON TWINS … If only they hadn’t met on the bedroom rug … Gerald Kersh 57
THE SMALL MAN … Whoever heard of a three-sided war? … Robert Switzer 59
DON’T COUNT YOUR TIGERS … He got both tigers, then his luck ran out … John Morressy 66
THE EMPTY ROOM … They all heard what they wanted to hear … William Brandon 76

PICTORIAL

THE APPIAN WAY … Connoisseurs of woman’s beauty … Photography by Gene Cook 44
ESQUIRE’S LADY FAIR … Betsy von Furstenberg … Painting by Mike Ludlow 53
WOTRUBA … A new prodigy in an ancient art—Fritz Wotruba … 68
HAS EVERYBODY HERE SEEN GUS? … The Co-Ed who took the bath … Photography by Halmi 84

WEARABLES

BRIGHT LIGHTS … New fabrics plus new color effects equal comfort … 55
THE WELL-TEMPERED PALETTE … Careful coordination is worth more than a second thought … 74
WARM-UP TIME … Knitted shirts that pull the wool over your eyes … 94
TIE SCORE … It’s important for a gentleman to know how to wear a tie … 96

POTABLES

THE SCOTCH OLD-FASHIONED … Esquire’s classic drink No. 1 … 72

TRAVEL

VACATION NOW … Get set on where you’re going and see your travel agent … 18
EUROPE: DIVIDEND PLAN … Extra added attractions in Europe … Richard Joseph 61

DEPARTMENTS

Publisher’s Page: ARTIST AS A WHOLE MAN … 6
Editorial: BEND A KNOTTED OAK … 8
THE SOUND AND THE FURY … 12
BACKSTAGE WITH ESQUIRE … 30
ESQUIRE ON RECORD … 33
DINING IN/OUT WITH ESQUIRE … 36
ESQUIRE’S FASHION FINDS … O. E. Schoeffler 38

BRIEF

THE ART OF SUCCESSFUL OGLING … Egon W. Loffel 124

TALKING SHOP

SHOPPING FINDS … beginning on 125

CREDITS: The Appian Way pictures on page 45 are by Pietzsch-Black Star; the photographs on page 61 of Europe: Dividend Plan are by Seymour-Magnum; F.P.G., Lanks-Black Star, on page 64 by Von Matt-Rapho-Guillmette, F.P.G.; the photograph at the bottom of page 68, Wotruba, and the one on page 69 are by Yoichi Okamoto, U.S.I.S.

ADVERTISERS’ INDEX … 123