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1966-01 Playboy Magazine Contents for January 1966

Jan.19, 2010 in Playboy

1966/01 — Vol. 13 No. 1. 262 pages.

Holiday Anniversary Issue

Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Princess Grace Kelly
  • The Wisdom of W. Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
  • “The Last Act” — Fiction by Roald Dahl
  • Those Gilded Galas — Nostalgia by Lucius Beebe
  • John Held, Jr.: Creator of an Era – Nostalgia
  • Cheers! — Drink by Thomas Mario
  • “The Man Child” — Fiction by James Baldwin
  • Sex in the Stone Age — Humor by Richard Armour
  • The Playboy Mansion — Pictorial Essay
  • The Royal Smut-Hound — Article by Kenneth Tynan
  • The Parisians and the Germans — Memoir by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Living With Automation — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • Despair — Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Redhead! — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Judy Tyler
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • The Great Books of 2066 — Opinion by Mortimer Adler and Clifton Fadiman
  • Retroactive New Year’s Resolutions — Humor
  • Senor Discretion Himself — Fiction by Budd Schulberg
  • When Will the Demonstrations End? — Article by James Farmer
  • Playboy’s Playmate Review — Pictorial
  • Manhattan – Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • Two-page fold-out Vargas Girl “He only needed one shot for the leopard, but it took most of a fifth to get me.”
  • Just Who Is J.D. Salinger? — Humor by H. Allen Smith
  • Flamenca’s Bath – Ribald Classic
  • The Eleventh-Hour Santa – Gifts
  • Going Naked on the Riviera — Article by Geoffrey Bocca
  • A Luncheon at the Ritz — Reminiscence by Bennett Cerf
  • Did I? — Satire by Jules Feiffer
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

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    1945-03-31 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    Sep.10, 2009 in Saturday Evening Post

    1945/03/31 — Cover design by Norman Rockwell

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
    4 SHORT STORIES:

  • “Gentle Like a Cyclone” by R. Ross Annett and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “Fateful Meeting” by Anne Wormser and Jess Oppenheimer and illustrated by George Wiggins
  • “A Boy in France” by J.D. Salinger and illustrated by Roebrt Frankenberg
  • “The Crumped Leaf” by Margaret Craven and illustrated by Austin Briggs

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Death March in a French Courtroom by George Slaff
  • We Must Have Steadier Jobs by Eric A. Johnston
  • The Surprised Democracy by John Lear
  • Imagine Wanting to Eat a Pigeon! by Sgt. Robert Geake
  • The “Baloney Barrage” Pays Off by Henry F. Pringle
  • Is China Washed Up? by Samuel Lubell
  • Doghouse to Let:–Apply Newhouser and Trout by Red Smith — with photos of Detroit Tigers Hal Newhouser and Dizzy Trout
  • Why Your Child Acts Like That by Wilbur Schramm

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Commodore Hornblower” — Part 2 of 8 — by C.S. Forrester and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • “The Red House” — Part 4 of 5 — by George Agnew Chamberlain and illustrated by Paul Rabut

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Editorials
  • Poetry

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    1944-07-15 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    Sep.10, 2009 in Saturday Evening Post

    1944/07/15 — Cover design Butch’s Vacation by Albert Staehle

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
    4 SHORT STORIES:

  • “The Glasgow Phantom” by Guy Gilpatrick and illustrated by George Hughes
  • “How to Save a Lady From Pain” by George Bradshaw and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • “He Could Make a Willow Whistle” by Ada Marie Fairchild and illustrated by Lonnie Bee
  • “Last Day of the Last Furlough” by J.D. Salinger and illustrated by B. Kimberly Prins

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • The Mystery of Migration by Ivan T. Sanderson
  • Sorry Can Be Faced by Roy E. Dickerson
  • We Can Hope for an Early End by Demaree Bess
  • What Business Needs by Robert Wood Johnson, Brigadier General, Retired
  • Norman Rockwell Visits a Ration Board – Includes a few paragraphs of text from the Editors, one 15-3/4″ X 9-1/4″ color illustration by Rockwell spreading over two pages, and several small characters illustrated in black & white by Rockwell stretching across the bottom of the two pages
  • One Man’s War — Part 3 of 5 — by Sgt. Charles E. “Commando” Kelly as told to Pete Martin
  • Hale’s Handful by Forrest Davis
  • Something Extra for the Boys by Herbert H. Hilscher
  • Birthday of the Infanta by S.J. Perelman

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Remembered Death” — Part 1 of 8 — by Agatha Christie and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “After April” — Part 6 of 8 — by Frederick Faust and illustrated by Phil Dormont

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Editorials

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    1944-04-15 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    Sep.10, 2009 in Saturday Evening Post

    1944/04/15 — Cover design “Trout Fishing” by John Atherton

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
    4 SHORT STORIES:

  • “Chicago Lulu” by Wayne Whittaker and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “I’ll Quit the Cops” by Thomas Walsh and illustrated by Phil Dormont
  • “Soft-Boiled Sergeant” by J.D. Salinger and illustrated by Graham Kaye
  • “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by R. Ross Annett and illustrated by Amos Sewell

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • The Magic Lie Detector — Part 1 of 3 — by Alva Johnston
  • Six Sergeants Come Home by Charles A. Rawlings
  • An International Organization That Works by John G. Winant, US Ambassador to Great Britain about the I.L.O.
  • The Fourth Term’s Hair Shirt — Part 2 of 3 — by Forrest Davis
  • The Japs Fail in the Philippines by J.L. Boots, DDS
  • The Battle Without a Name by Capt. Robert W. Blake, USMCR
  • Wilderness Airport by Mary Ellen Leary
  • Letter from Hollywood — 11th of a Series of Hollywood Vignettes — by Pete Martin

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Fair Stood the Wind for France — part 5 of 8 — by H.E. Bates and illustrated by George Hughes
  • “Plunder” — Part 7 of 8 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Editorials

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    1944-02-26 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    Sep.10, 2009 in Saturday Evening Post

    1944/02/26 — “Shipyard” cover design by Fred Ludekens.

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
    SHORT STORIES:

  • “Old Army” by Paul Horgan and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • “Both Parties Concerned” by J.D. Salinger and illustrated by George Withers
  • “–And Shame the Devil” by David Lamson and illustrated by John F. Gould
  • “Venus of the Waterfront” by George Sessions Perry and illustrated by George Garland

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Should I Apologize?” by Arthur Train with drawings by Arthur William Brown
  • “Eisenhower’s Flying Scot” by Demaree Bess is about Sir Arthur William Tedder
  • “The Nazis Get Licked in Greenland” by Joe Alex Morris
  • “Boom Town on the Amazon” by Marquis W. Childs
  • “It’s Your Money, Brother!” by John H. Crider
  • “China Gets Ready to Win” by Ernest O. Hauser
  • “A Post Cameraman in the Wake of War” part 5 of 6 color-picture articles by Ivan Dmitri, this time in India
  • “Letter from Hollywood” part 4 of a series of Hollywood Vignettes by Pete Martin

    • SERIALS:

  • “Dark Waters” part 2 of 4 by Frank and Marian Cockrell and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • “Odd Man Pays” conclusion by Darwin L. Teilhet and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Editorials

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Philco Presents the Radio Hall of Fame with headshots of Bob Hope, Hildegarde, Red Skelton, and Ginny Simms, United Air Lines, Pennsyvania Railroad with color illustration of shirtless soldier by Frank J. Reilly, Gem Razors illustrated by Peter Arno*, and a Kodak Medalist ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

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    1943-07-17 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    Sep.10, 2009 in Saturday Evening Post

    1943/07/17 — “Dalmation” … Cover design by Rutherford Boyd.

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
    SHORT STORIES:

  • “The Varioni Brothers” by J.D. Salinger and illustrated by Al Moore
  • “Queenie” by R. Ross Annett and illustrated by Donald Teague

  • “In Again, Out Again, Botts Again” by William Hazlett Upson and illustrated by E.F. Ward
  • “When the Boys Come Home” by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by Floyd Davis

    • ARTICLES:

  • Dear Constituent: Go Fly a Kite by Robert Lewis Taylor
  • My Studio Burns Down by Norman Rockwell
  • Rescue in the Night by Maxwell Hawkins
  • How Soon Can We Expect More Civilian Goods? by Frederick H. McDonald
  • Boom in Babel by Lewis B. Funke
  • The Backstage Story of Our African Adventure — Part 3 of 3 — by Demaree Bess
  • White-Collar Justice by Jerome Frank
  • First Base by Ewart Young
  • Ma to the Air Gypsies by Wilberta Lipps in collaboration with Richard Sheridan Amis
  • What I am Fighting For by Sgt. Herbert E. Smith

    • SERIALS:

  • “Without Orders” — Part 5 of 7 — by Martha Albrand and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

  • “Heart on Her Sleeve” — Conclusion — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Glen Fleischmann

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts

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    1941-07-12 Colliers Magazine Contents

    Sep.09, 2009 in Colliers

    1941/07/12 — Cover photograph of the B-19 Bomber by Larry Kronquist

    Contents as follows:
    SHORT STORIES:

  • “Cleo” by Damon Runyon and illustrated by Harry Beckhoff
  • “Lost in a Fog” by R.G. Kirk and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “The Fortunate Cop” by Thomas McMorrow and illustrated by George De Zayas
  • “The Hang of It” — The Short Short Story — by J.D. Salinger and illustrated by T.D. Skidmore — Short Short is one page total, half the page is the Skidmore illustration, the other two columns are the complete Salinger short story. This is Salinger’s third published story and first in a mainstream general publication

    • SERIAL STORIES:

  • “Advance Agent” — Part 2 of 9 — by John August and illustrated by Ronald McLeod
  • “Dina Cashman” — Part 4 of 13 — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Walter C. Klett

    • ARTICLES

  • The Guns Are Coming by Walter Davenport
  • For Freedom’s Skies by Jim Marshall
  • Amazing Maisie by Kyle Crichton is about Ann Sothern
  • Plymouth Fights Back by Quentin Reynolds
  • Our New Army
  • California Comet by Bill Davidson is about Hal Davis

    • PLUS:

  • Wing Talk
  • Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster
  • Editorial: Air Power Comes of Age
  • Shredded Ralston ad on back cover features tennis star Big Bill Tilden

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    1945-12-22 Colliers Magazine Contents

    Sep.09, 2009 in Colliers

    1945/12/22 — Cover credited to Francis Chase

    Contents as follows:
    FICTION:

  • “The Dress of Lights” by Harry Sylvester and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Beauty Treatment” by Dave Grubb and illustrated by Earl Blossom

  • “Decision at Midnight” by Bernard Victor Dryer and illustrated by Elmore Brown

  • “The Sea Shell” – Part 2 of 3 – by Nancy Lyon and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “I’m Crazy” by J.D. Salinger is a Holden Caulfield story – illustrated by Leon Gregori
  • “She’ll Be Along” – The Short Short Story – by Garth R. Spencer and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum

    • ARTICLES

  • Billions for Britain by Frank Gervasi
  • The United States of Europe by George Creel and illustrated by Kenneth Thompson
  • So You’re Going to Fly by Henry L. Jackson and illustrated by Jefferson Machamer
  • Babies Have Their Rights by Ruth Carson
  • The Customer Is Always Wrong by Jules Levine

  • The Trip Home by Quentin Reynolds
  • The Winner of the Collier Trophy by Frederick R. Neely
  • A Lovely Tune in His Head by Flora Rheta Schreiber
  • Chinatown Potluck by Frank J. Taylor

    • PLUS:

  • “Keep Up With the World” by Freling Foster
  • Wing Talk by Frederick R. Neely
  • Your Life Tomorrow by David O. Woodbury
  • The Week’s Work by Amy Porter
  • Editorials: Single Command for Total War – How’s the MVA Doing? – More Americans

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    1945-12-01 Colliers Magazine Contents

    Sep.09, 2009 in Colliers

    1945/12/01 — Cover credited to Walter Bomar

    Contents as follows:
    FICTION:

  • “Bitter Harvest” — Part 2 of 3 — by Ramona Stewart and illustrated by Warren Baumgartner
  • “Secret Attack” by Frank O’Roarke and illustrated by Vincent Guise
  • “The Stranger” by J.D. Salinger and illustrated by A.L. Kortner
  • “Orchids to You” — The Short Short Story by Lawrence Williams and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • “Chicken Business” by Hyatt Downing and illustrated by Willard Mullin
  • “Blow Devil” by Wilbur S. Peacock and illustrated by Wilbur S. Peacock

    • ARTICLES

  • That Poor Man in the White House by Jonathan Daniels
  • They’ve Had It by Quentin Reynolds
  • The Case of the Cut-Rate Dream by Joan Younger
  • Small Town Does Big Job by Lester Valie
  • American Color Scheme by Amy Porter with painting of Alicia Markova by Walter Klett
  • Seventy Million Problem Children by Frank D. Morris
  • Sailors Ashore by Talbert Josselyn
  • Pooch Paradise by A.L. Simon
  • Big Wind From the South by Walter Davenport with illustration of John Rankin by Sam Berman
  • Store Business Is Show Business by Burton Schellenbach

    • PLUS:

  • Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster
  • Wing Talk by Frederick R. Neely
  • The Week’s Work by Amy Porter
  • Editorials: Upheaval in the Orient – Art, Race and the D.A.R. – Masterpiece by Marshall

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    1942-09-10 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    Sep.07, 2009 in Story

    1942/09-10 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XXI, Number 97. September-October 1942.

    Contents as taken from both the front cover and the index page inside are:

  • “The Dream of Angelo Zara” by Guido D’Agostino
  • “Even the Dead Shall Rise” by Margaret Rhodes Peattie
  • “The Long Debut of Lois Taggett” by J.D. Salinger This appears to be 23-year-old Salinger’s fifth published short story. The contributors section notes Salinger: J.D. Salinger writes, “I’m in the Officers, First Sergeants, and Instructors Prep School of the Signal Corps, determined to get that ole message through. …The men in my tent–though a damn nice bunch–are always eating oranges or listening to quiz programs, and I haven’t written a line since my re-classification and induction.” But he is one of many of “our boys” who are doing an important job and we are rooting for all of them. He is a native New Yorker, twenty-three years old, and his first story, “The Young Folks,” appeared in the March-April 1940 issue of STORY”
  • “This Healthy Life” by Vicki Baum
  • “The Bear, the Red Ox, Cupid and Mr. Zorn” by Else Torge Dougall
  • “Fair Lady” by Peggy von der Goltz
  • “Free Surprise Gift” by Frances Eisenberg
  • “Not Much Time” by Virginia Lee Warren
  • “By the Dawn’s Early Light” by Elick Moll

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    1940-03-04 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    Sep.07, 2009 in Story

    1940/03-04 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XVI, Number 82. March-April 1940. A Love Story Issue

    Contents as taken from both the front cover are:

  • “The Tower” by Jeanne Singer
  • “Stawberries in January” by Vivian Connell
  • “There Must Be Someone” by Lionel Wiggam
  • “The Young Folks” by J.D. Salinger
  • “Poet’s Grief” by Emmett Gowen
  • “The Years Go By” by Alphabelle Daily
  • “Tracks in the Snow” by Edward Havill
  • “Easter Egg” by Frank Brookhouser
  • “Honeymoon” by V.G. Calderon
  • Survey of Reviews

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