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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
The Fighting Filipinos . . . Those who know them expected Filipinos to answer the Japs with blood, feel sure they’ll continue to resist . . . Frederic S. Marquardt 29
Woman Into Wife . . . Case histories of “good wives” including Vine into Step-mother, Colonel Thelma and The Good Ship “We” . . . Anonymous 32
Are Women Jurors? . . . Some people call their viewpoint emotional, the author calls it sense, but they’re tough problems to any lawyer . . . William Scott Stewart 36
It Ain’t Misterarily So! . . . N. A. newspaper gal rebukes “Mistera” Goes South, terms Latin men “regular,” women cultured though feminine . . . Anonymous 41
I Pick a Candidate . . . Conscientious chunk on the street tries to get the lowdown on all 137 candidates listed on his primary ballot . . . Hart Stilwell 42
Lo, the Poor Cowboy . . . Those were the days when Bill Hart and Tom Mix galloped and shot their way through two-reelers at thousands per . . . Sidney Carroll 47
After Gin Rummy—What? . . . Spade Cassino, Kalabrizsa and Build-up offer a stiff workout to card players seeking good two-handed games . . . Albert A. Ostrow 53
The American Indian Style . . . It was a cold, mean day in November when Domenic, the head-waiter, hit on a ruse to get rid of Ricardo . . . Donald Hough 58
Plymobile to the Rescue . . . This cheap transportation marvel can be powered by gasoline, by electric battery, by compressed air or by foot . . . Murray Teigh Bloom 90
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury . . . Short letters to a distant friend . . . 10
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire . . . In what dark mazes . . . 24
The Lively Arts: Preliminary Report on Superman . . . Psyching the comic-strip hero . . . Gilbert Seldes 63
Potables: Oh, You’ll Take the Highball . . . And your correspondent will take Scotch . . . Lawton Mackall 69
Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf . . . From the art of cartooning to murder . . . William Lyon Phelps 80
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments . . . Naming thirty peculiar experts . . . George Jean Nathan 82
Edibles: Man the Kitchenette . . . How to cook like a native Chinese . . . Iles Brody 88
Wearables: The Care and Feeding of Shoes . . . Promoting a shine in time . . . O. E. Schoeffler 97
Potpourri: Ad Libbing With Esquire . . . A pun is a noble thing per se . . . Bruce Patterson 100
FICTION
The Red Can-Can . . . The German staff captain declared this woman was the only one who could have reported their troop movements . . . Dan Steele 31
The Hangin of Willard Bellstrasse . . . His kin could forget their pistols for folks had rode miles for a hangin and that’s what they intended to see . . . Jesse Stuart 44
How to Be a Sergeant . . . With an unhappy Indian, a practical joker and a moocher, Serg. Smoot enjoys what is laughingly called his rest period . . . Louis Paul 56
Black Boy’s Good Time . . . The sheriff told Slim to give the little Negro the works and give it to him good till he made a confession . . . Elmer Grossberg 60
At the Bottom of the Garden . . . Aunt Mildred was a fool for flowers and told garden clubs all about the elvish little creatures she knew so well . . . Walter Brooks 66
An Act with Class . . . It was out in Flatbush that Joe spotted this Nicodemus with the act that was a sure nugget for the Yukon Agency . . . Ernest Evans 70
Beware the Tremper Buck . . . It was the last night of the season and Gaffer had no intention of letting the stranger shoot his cherished deer . . . Edmund Gilligan 76
Teach a Child the Way . . . No boy could ever forget the joy of hopping his first freight or the horror of being kissed and forgiven by his maiden aunt . . . Peter DeVries 87
PERSONALITIES
Ribak: Art the Hard Way . . . Louis Ribak, born in Russian Poland, came up the tough way in New York’s East Side, is largely self taught . . . Harry Salpeter 75
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Cover Design . . . The stag at bay . . . Modeled by L. S. Soderstrom
Varga Girl . . . Beauts and Saddles . . . Verse by Phil Stack; Painting by Varga 39
Chee-Lai . . . March of the Chinese Volunteers . . . Painting by William Pachner 61
The Douglas A-20A . . . Army attack plane does its stuff . . . Painting by Alexander Leydenfrost 62
Four Paintings . . . Courtesy of the A.C.A. Gallery, N.Y.C. . . . by Louis Ribak 74
Rita Hayworth . . . In Columbia’s You Were Never Lovelier . . . 85
Horseless Carriage: 1943 Model . . . Build it yourself . . . Tony Palazzo 91
Doberman Pinscher . . . Far from frivolous . . . Color Photograph by Henry Waxman 95
Ring-necked Pheasant . . . When the fodder’s in the shock . . . Water Color by Walter E. Bohl 96
SPORTS
Celestial Touchdowns . . . Former football star sees flying in terms of a game, feels sure our boys can take it and lick the Axis . . . Aviation Cadet Tom Harmon 34
Where’s That Goat? . . . Students, alumni, coaches and camp followers menaced football officials, slugged them, burned them in effigy . . . John J. Schommer 48
Boxing Builds Bums . . . Contending that boxing is never good for anybody mentally and rarely physically—least of all prospective soldiers . . . Pete Norton 55
The Sporting Scene . . . On B-teams as paratroopers, the comeback of Joe Kirkwood and reminder that war’s more important than football . . . Herb Graffis 64
The Esquire Sports Poll . . . What’s best way to get all citizens into prime physical shape for the war effort in minimum time? . . . Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon 78
TRENDS IN DRESS
New Clothes, Accessories, sketched by Pachner, Goodman, Saalburg, Fellows, Hughes beginning on 37