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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
The Score for 1943 … Straight dope on changes in store for you due to heavier taxes, drafting of manpower and rationing of commodities … Leo M. Cherne 29
Should I Marry the Girl? … You can’t go wrong if you grade her according to this quiz, which covers such items as beauty, intelligence and juke … Ed S. Woodhead 32
A Champion in Chains … Political tidilywinks prevents 200,000 eager Palestinian Jews from forming an army to defend the Middle East … Ben Hecht 36
You Can Do Business with Litvinoff … Probably the outstanding diplomat of our time, this Ambassador has done much to build up Russian prestige … Curt Riess 41
Eight Men a Day … She learned about men by teaching them ballroom dancing, and concludes they’re simple but well worth the trouble … Anonymous 42
So You Want to Be a Blood Donor? … Pro and Red Cross donor relates his amazing and amusing experiences to cheer you on your patriotic way … Anonymous 47
Return of the Minute Man … Pointing out the value and danger of armed guerrilla forces which should be kept under rigid government control … Paul W. Kearney 54
The Pilot and the Bomb’s Rush … With his scientific training and the Norden bomb-sight, the world’s most dangerous man is a bombardier … Robert W. Marks 63
The Esquaportable Shelter … Life sportsman’s delight, a modernistic folding house, goes up easily in half an hour and costs only fifty bucks … Mark Ashley 64
Preserving Cars in Storage … Whether you supervise the job yourself or hire a commercial garage, here are some “musts” that will minimize deterioration … C. E. Packer 67
What a Racket … Funny paper cartoonist contends his life is no joke and Andy Gump pursues him like a bad conscience in his dreams … Gus Edson 76
Return of an Aristocrat … The lush flower made famous by the wayward and celebrated Lady of the Camellias has come into its own again … Frederic A. Birmingham 85
DEPARTMENTS
Correspondence: The Sound and the Fury … Plaudits and Chaff for Eskie 10
Contributors: Backstage with Esquire … Inside our Writers 24
The Lively Arts: Apple Trees and Jerks on Jeeps … On lyrics the service men sing … Gilbert Seldes 60
Books: Esquire’s Five-Minute Shelf … Fine poetry has emerged from this war … William Lyon Phelps 81
Theatre: First Nights & Passing Judgments … Slapstick that is sure-fire … George Jean Nathan 82
Potables: U.S. Grapes Are in the Groove … And mission bells are sounding … Lawton Mackall 86
Edibles: What Cooks with Wine … A can of prunes, a cup of wine, and wow … Iles Brody 89
Potpourri: Ad Libbing with Esquire … Men aimest right when they shoot in jest … Bruce Patterson 97
Wearables: Cure for the Color-unconscious … With a chart for future Guidance … O. E. Schoeffler 101
FICTION
The Joy of Waiting … Every afternoon just at four-thirty the mysterious Madame Henri came to The Hull and sipped a glass of sherry … Manuel Komroff 30
Montage of a Screen Star … Omnivorous in her collecting of men, antiques and culture, this Hollywood Queen has come quite a spell on her looks … Sidney Carroll 35
The Atavism of Ralph Piscatore … He had never felt at ease with his fellow men and so it was that he found pleasure among the southern fish … Robert J. Kuhn 53
A Day with Debutantes … Corp. Huyler explains Public Relations makes sure soldiers and civilians pester each other according to regulations … Louis Paul 56
Mr. Galahad and Mr. Roland … It was plain to the old men reading the comic strip, Lily Belle’s Grandfather needed transportation to Floridy … Elijah L. Jacobs 68
PERSONALITIES
Ambidextrous Manfred Schwartz … If his work as dealer postponed his growth as painter it showed the power of ideas and a principle of art … Harry Salpeter 70
PICTORIAL FEATURES
Cover Design … Ho for the life of a sailor … Modeled by L. S. Söderström
The Varga Girl … Song for a Guitar … Verse by Phil Stack; Painting by Varga 39
Etchings of the Quail … In personal and public life … by William J. Schaldach 45
Hussite Battle Hymn … Oh Ye Warriors of the Lord God … Painting by William Pachner 61
When a Grumman Avenger Lets Fly … Scratch One “Flat Top” … Painting by Alexander Leydenfrost 62
Plans for Esquaportable Shelter … Fifty-dollar cabana 65
A Group of Paintings … Courtesy of the Lilienfeld Galleries, N.Y.C. … by Manfred Schwartz 71
Marjorie Woodworth … In Hal Roach’s Prairie Chicken … Photograph by George Hurrell 83
The Camellia Girl … Lost lady rediscovered … Kodachromed by Erwin Blumenfeld 84
A Dictionary of American Wines … Aleatico to Zinfandel from native vines 87
“Dropping In” … Black Ducks in Arkansas … Water Color by Walter E. Bohl 93
Labrador Retriever … Black-coated hunter … Color Photograph by Henry Waxman 94
SPORTS
Bob and Madame White … The quail has kept space with the times and has survived by streamlining his life to meet a changing era … William J. Schaldach 44
Diagnosis of Anemia … Sports participant tells why he hates public games that are a business, organized, drilled and disciplined play … Ted Robinson 48
The Three R’s of Training … Ex-football star says many an athlete is injured because he hasn’t mastered the important art of relaxation … Tom Harmon 59
The Sporting Scene … Major Richard Hanley, former football coach, is toughening Marines with a strenuous course of competitive calisthenics … Herb Graffis 75
The Esquire Sports Poll … Ballot on establishing a strong, government-sponsored sports program after the war … Herb Graffis & Ralph Cannon 78
TRENDS IN DRESS
New Clothes, Accessories, sketched by Pachner, Fellows, Saalburg, Goodman … beginning on 37