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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Good Soldiers Play Safe … British veteran of last war cites amusing divergence of professional soldiers’ and uninformed civilians’ morale … Liam O’Flaherty 23
Convoy Town, 1940 … Sailors of that valiant Atlantic-Ocean community loved to retell the incredible story of the San Demetrio … Charles Rawlings 26
Moscow for the Next Olympics … Since more people hate and love Soviet Russia than any other country, this would test the spirit of internationalism … H. V. Kaltenborn 30
How Attractive Are You to Men? … Since the game of love is largely a matter of approach, gals may profit by answering these fifty questions … by Him 38
How Attractive Are You to Women? … Any clunk can be Don Juan by trying this quiz and improving his technique according to answers appended … by Her 39
So You’re Going to Study Spanish … When in Latin America you should at least speak the language well enough to get around to parties … Ernest Noyes 52
Miner of Meteorites … Nininger believes knowledge of meteorites may well advance our knowledge of the whole solar system and of nearby space … Roscoe Fleming 59
Art for the Walls of America … Reeves Lewenthal hit on a business enterprise to benefit this country’s artists as well as its homes … Mark Ashley 62
Bluffing at Bridge … An admittedly mad contract bridge player fondly remembers those hilarious occasions when his screwball bids paid off … Hart Stilwell 69
G’s in the Jaws of Japan … Evolution of American Hell-divers into the German Stuka, the English Blackburn Skua, our own Douglas A-24 … Robert W. Marks 74
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury … Our readers give … 10
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire … Close-up of our writers … 20
The Lively Arts: There’s Gold in Them Camps … Entertainers on the Qui Vive … Gilbert Seldes 64
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments … Even a critic has emotions … George Jean Nathan 71
Wearables: Correct Dress Chart … Ranging from formal to country fashion … O. E. Schoeffler 76
Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf … The unrequited love of Mr. Shaw … William Lyon Phelps 81
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette … Shashlik at the Shasha … Iles Brody 83
Potables: Thirst Wardens, Attention … Introducing the Esquire cocktail … Lawton Mackall 87
Records: Esquire on the Record … Comprising Bandleader’s Choice (163) and current best sellers … 169
FICTION
What Do You Hear From Your Heart? … A hard-headed marriage broker, who has always persuaded his clients to marry for money, falls in love … Joe Abrams 25
Two Kinds of People … Murder was rare enough in the town for the patrolman to route out the lieutenant when Quenton’s phone call came in … William A. Krauss 28
Moon Love in April … Charles felt old indeed after the emotions that gripped him during that terrific crush on his eighth-grade teacher … Louis Zara 36
Barabbas Was a Robber … He boasted he was better known than Christ, else why would he have been freed and the Other crucified? … Manuel Komroff 42
A Memorable Evening … Corporal Corky Smith protests there ain’t no army regulations which says soldiers have got to eat any old dame’s shoes … Louis Paul 50
The Other Side of the River … Old Man Gay looked back with glee on that day sixty years ago when he first outsmarted his brother in a trade … Hamilton Basso 54
The Fire Martyr … Evoh, head of the clan, bewailed the urge that had taken his loved grandson over the hills where he had learned evil things … J. E. Lobner 60
You Don’t Wind a Sundial … None of that fancy history of sundials meant a thing to the two smartest business men on the island of Tahiti … Donald Barr Chidsey 72
The Captain Takes a Trip … What happened after a young officer of the Imperial and Royal Army did right by his landlady’s daughter … Sándor Hunyady 94
PERSONALITIES
F.D.R.’s Mystery Man … Co-ordinator of Information, Colonel William Joseph Donovan’s staff rivals the German Bureau of Geopolitik … John McCarthy 47
The Middleweight Artist … Fletcher Martin’s career proves the old saw that hazards which break the weak test and strengthen the strong … Harry Salpeter 88
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Cover Design … A dog’s best friend … Modeled by L. S. Soderstrom
Varga Girl … Song for a Lost Spring … Verse by Phil Stack — Painting by Varga 33
“On a Single” … Afternoon on an English Setter … Water Color by Walter E. Bohl 55
“Some Necks…” … Two down and one to go … Painting by Arthur Szyk 56
Eleanor Parker … In Warner Bros. The Male Animal … Photographed by George Hurrell 79
A Group of Paintings … Courtesy of Midtown Galleries, NYC … by Fletcher Martin 89
The Durer Girl … Joan of Arc … Kodachrome by Erwin Blumenfeld 101
Fox Terrier … Wherever English Is Spoken … Color Photograph by Henry Waxman 102
SPORTS
Britain’s Sport Goes to the Dogs … And sports authorities stew over popular indifference to rugby, soccer and boxing, partly due to lack of press space … Trevor Wignall 35
And the Blue Grass Grows All Around … There’s genuine devotion between the groom Willie Harbutt and the honorably retired Man O’ War … Robert C. McCormick 41
The New Fishing Technique … An Angler commends spinning, new to Americans though long a favorite method in England and France … Harold E. Lewis 49
The Sporting Scene … If we match our Good Neighbors’ sporting spirit the U.S. Pan American games in Buenos Aires will be a success … Herb Graffis 57
The Esquire Sports Poll … Sports’ wartime value endorsed by sports casters, soldiers at Langley Field, and the public … Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon 84
A Regular Feller … Fond of his father, hunting, trap-shooting, gadgets and practical jokes is the pitcher now training at Norfolk … Sec Taylor 93
Arousing That Killer Instinct … Ex-lightweight champ and U.S. Army director of boxing in World War I deems the sport invaluable to soldiers … Benny Leonard 150
TRENDS IN DRESS
New Clothes, Accessories, sketched by Pachner, Fellows, Goodman, Hughes, Saalburg … beginning on 31