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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Let Him Be Lord and Master — Cynthia Harris — 45
Colonel Olcott’s 300 Ghosts — J. Andrew White — 46
When the Aeroplane First Saluted Liberty — Louis Sloane — 48
The Vitamin Girls — Hubbell Robinson, Jr. — 53
What Happened to the Helicopter? — William Winter — 59
Last of the Monsters — Herb Graffis — 60
The Plateau of Despond — Chester Morrison — 65
They Fought for News — Lawrence Lader — 71
Every Man a Mental Wizard — Jerome S. Meyer — 101
Gold Is Where You Find It — Bruce McLeod — 102
How’s Your Fashion Quotient? — O. E. Schoeffler — 104
The Creature from the Mist — Norman Caldwell & H. S. Mazet — 108
The Lost Paradise — by B. S. Miesheiker — 119
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury — 6
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire — Jack Moffitt — 40
Movies: Thoughts on Heaven and Hollywood — Gilbert Seldes — 56
The Lively Arts: Einstein, Kip, and Stoop — George Jean Nathan — 90
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments — Charles Edward Smith — 112
Jazz: Backdrop for Jazz Composers — O. E. Schoeffler — 120
Wearables: Major Resort Notes — Gilbert Seldes — 122
Discs: Esquire on the Record — Gilbert Seldes — 122
FICTION
The Breath of Fear — Laszlo Dormandi — 54
Never Another Word — Henry Seaton — 62
We Live in Fame — George W. Thorpe — 66
Train to Blois — Thomas L. Stix — 73
Leon the Winchman — Robert P. Hansen — 77
Your Name in the Papers — E. Ralph Rundell — 83
A Night at County — George Wiswell — 84
A Great Town for Characters — William March — 86
The White Horse — F. L. Owen — 96
The Gay Evening — Ernest Lehman — 111
PERSONALITIES
Gatto: Little Primitive — Harry Salpeter — 98
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Cover Illustration — Painting by Howard Baer
When the Aeroplane First Saluted Liberty — Painting by Harper Goff — 49
The Esquire Girl
Springsong — 1946 — Painting by J. Frederick Smith — 57
Eddie Foy, Jr., in The Red Mill — Color photograph by Sydney Ravitz — 60
Katharine Booth, One of Hollywood’s Nebulae — Color photograph by Eric Carpenter — 61
American Beauty: Dorothy Partington — Color photograph by Peter Junco — 69
Are You With It? — Color photograph by Stone-Bauman Greene — 70
“With Malice Toward None; With Charity for All” — Color photograph by Clarence C. Carter — 78
Clarissa, as Cast as a Half-Caste — Color photograph by Hurrell — 79
Fifteen Color Studies of Pan Fish — by Charles Liedl — 81
To Glide on the Wings of the Wind—and No Motor — Color photograph by Hans Groenhoff — 90
People We Can’t Read Enough About… No. 1: Ingrid Bergman — Caricature by Alan Jedla — 91
A Group of Paintings — by Joseph Victor Gatto — 99
Actor of the Month: Brian Aherne — Color photograph by Sydney Ravitz — 100
Cook’s Tour: Max Keller — Color photograph by D. Hoffman — 102
Lady Tweed and Anthony Adverse of Sayndalle — Color photograph by Lial Hoppen — 103
Country Race Meet — Drawing by Leslie Saalburg — 105
Divided by Three — Drawing by Robert Goodman — 106
SPORTS
Into the Woods Without a Guide — Henry Tetlow — 68
General Par’s Last Stand — O. B. Keeler — 74
Inside Baseball — Hugh Fullerton, Sr. — 78
From American Lakes and Streams — David M. Newell — 80
La Fiesta Brava — Barnaby Conrad, Jr. — 92
The Faith of Pojo — Phil Koury — 95
The Esquire Sports Poll on Big-League Baseball — — 107
Foxes Have It, Too — Al Swanson — 114
CREDITS
Illustrations on pages 45, 46, 54, 66, 77 and 96 through courtesy of Associated American Artists
TRENDS IN DRESS
Clothing and Accessories by Runnette, Murley, Saalburg and Fellows — beginning on 124