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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Some Private Postwar Planning. Servicemen are asked the question, “What are you going to do when you get home?” and answer variously. — Sidney Carroll — 39
Years for the Asking. Sixteen days your real age may have nothing to do with birthdays, and a test with which you can prove it. — Martin Gumpert, M.D. — 44
Jimmy Doolittle’s American Eagle. Those were the days when Doolittle staked his nerve and his life for the sheer hell of the competition. — Paul Gallico — 46
The Future of Television. Answering some of the questions which make television the most exciting promise of postwar communications. — Gilbert Seldes — 51
Rummy the South American Way. How a Pic-Pac, the card game that Rio likes a buzz-bomb, and promises to spread to the North. — Richard L. Frey — 54
World’s Most Pressured Industry. With professions, classes and groups jumping on them, movies scarcely have room to turn around. — Don Carle Gillette — 62
King of the Keester Bugs. The ex-Racecar Wilson was determined to practice the art of go-cracking the floorboy toy—and almost did. — Dean Jennings — 68
The Rumba Is Not Alone. At least five dances which are also top favorites in Latin America would be excellent fare for any Yankee appetite. — José Manzanares — 73
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury. Mail call. — 10
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire. Esq’s authors take a bow. — 34
Opinion: This Man’s World. Scottsdale idea of a silver cup. — Paul Gallico — 65
Anecdotes: Going the Rounds with Esquire. Add these to your repertoire. — 82
The Lively Arts: How to Laugh on the Air. On a bad radio habit. — Gilbert Seldes — 88
Jazz: The Rhythm Section. Of an organization to spread jazz. — Paul Eduard Miller & Leonard Feather — 94
Education: Esquire’s Ready-to-Speak French II. Phrases through soundwriting. — Frank Henius — 98
Potables: Botany Can Be Bracing. Life and loves of friend gin. — Lawton Mackall — 105
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments. Critic fails to be amused. — George Jean Nathan — 106
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette. Noble use for the modest frank. — Iles Brody — 108
Wearables: Summer to Suit. Now’s the time to insure summer comfort. — O. E. Schoeffler — 117
Discs: Esquire on the Record. New platters: sweet and sour. — Gilbert Seldes — 124
FICTION
The Mule Who Didn’t Want Fame. He was Commanding General of the Theater—but he was faced with Frances, the talking, flying mule. — Peter Stirling — 40
You Can Do It in a Mock-Up. Gordon could not see how it could help the training film, but the major wanted to make the jump himself. — Peter J. Packer — 52
Water Over the Saddle. Before Billy could go up the Trail and be a man, he’d have to lick his father who had a twisted leg. — Allan R. Bosworth — 60
A Man With the Right Connections. James Dexter was a young man getting places, and didn’t see his old friends so much any more. — Maurice Baudin — 66
Little Three Fires and the Coyote. The boy had power to commune with things of nature, and thought the coyote his friend. — Robert N. Hubner — 74
Cousin Willie Is a Card. Willie studied cards with his other homework, and he played well even without his late Uncle Benny. — Paul Gardner — 96
A Ticket to Nowhere. By a singular misfortune he had been locked behind bars, and by a stroke of fate he was now emerging into the world. — Curtis Thomas — 110
PERSONALITIES
Earl Wilson: The Midnight Earl. Of the decade’s freest gossip reporter. — Paul Greene & William Burton — 76
The Research Magnificent. Artist Marshall Glasier’s own story. — Harry Salpeter — 93
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Jimmy Doolittle’s “Flying Engine”. Painted especially for Esquire by Boris Artzybasheff. — 47
Varga Girl. Late Spring. Verse by Phil Stack; Painting by Varga. — 49
Broadway for the Boys. Rosita Romero. — Photograph by Ravitz — 58
The Esquire Canteen. Frankie and Johnnie… and friends. — Photograph by Anton Bruehl — 63
American Beauties, Western Style. Esther Williams. — Photograph by Hurrell — 64
American Beauties, Eastern Style. Gale Y’villar. — Photograph by William Ritter — 69
Among Hollywood’s Nebulae. Marilyn Buford. — Photograph by Waxman — 72
Hollywood . . . Set to Music. The ballet comes to Duffy’s Tavern. — Photograph by Jack Kofman — 77
Central Park Rendezvous. Visitors in New York. — Painting by Leslie Saalburg — 80
Esquiregraph No. 7. Ernie Pyle. — Photocollage by Ravitz-Palazzo — 89
Cartoon Spread. Sad Apples in May. — Drawings by Frank Beaven — 90
A Group of Six Paintings. Courtesy of Associated American Artists, Inc. — by Marshall Glasier — 92
Martin Mariner. A Marine Tales & Flying Leap. — Painting by Alexander Leydenfrost — 104
SPORTS
The Return of Hagen’s Ghost. When Hagen mixed sports and London society. — Robert E. Harlow — 42
They’d Rather Hit Triples. Sainworth keeps his team happy—and hitting. — Stan Baumgartner — 59
The All-American Boys’ Ball Game. Announcing the new national contest. — Joe Hendrickson — 81
The Esquire Sports Poll. Mock poll by pollster just returned from overseas. — Herb Graffis — 84
The Sporting Scene. Current gleanings from the sports world. — 86
BRIEFS
You’ll Bust Your Sides Laughing. A type of humor unknowingly started by the Japs. — Parke Cummings — 41
In Lieu of a Written Will. A verbal gift by a dying person is not good. — Renzo Dee Bowers — 61
The Epic Ride of Casey Jones. How Casey became the hero of song and story. — Laurence J. Hathaway — 75
Your Boy and a Summer Camp. There’s a lot to be said for the things it can do. — George Wignall — 83
America’s Most Remarkable Horse. There’ll never be another Goldsmith Maid. — John Durant — 87
My Wife Is a Fat Lady. No mean size; she hasn’t an ounce of meanness. — George Victor Martin — 109
TRENDS IN DRESS
Clothes and Accessories by Goodman, Ravitz, Fenton and Fellows — beginning on 101