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8/10/1946 Liberty Magazine Contents August 10, 1946

1946/08/10 —
Cover “That Old Swimming Hole” is by John Newton Howitt

Contents as follows:
ARTICLES:

  • Queen for a Day by Virginia Stevens
  • The Fervent Father by Stacy V. Jones is a feature on Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen
  • The President’s Housekeeper about Mrs. Nesbitt
  • Japan Is Sold American by Victor Boesen
  • Homes for Americans – No. 4 by Darrell Huff
  • That Vine-Covered Gas Pump by Morris Markey
  • STORIES:

  • Florry Was Hard to Get by Nick Boddie Williams with color illustration by O.F. Schmidt
  • The Contest Winner — Short Short Story by May Sarton with half-page color photo illustrated by Rafael De Soto
  • The Champ by Herbert B. Livingston with color illustration by Pat Holbrooke
  • Murder on Fifty-Second Street — Conclusion by Oscar Schisgall with color illustration by Larry Kritcher
  • PICTURES:

  • The Camera Eye: They Talked 20 Years Ago featuring the cast of “Don Juan” including John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Warner Oland, Mary Astor and others
  • BOOK CONDENSATION:

  • States of Grace by Francis Steegmuller
  • FEATURES:

  • Vox Pop
  • On the Beam
  • Books in Review
  • Crossword Puzzle
  • Veterans’ Bulletin Board
  • The Thropp Family
  • Woman-Talk
  • Liberty Goes to the Movies
  • Clothes Clinic by P.B. Juster
  • EDITORIAL:

  • Stream Pollution — A Disgrace to America by Paul Hunter
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    8/3/1946 Liberty Magazine Contents August 3, 1946

    1946/08/03 —
    Cover “Lovely Lady” is by Pat Holbrooke

    Contents as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • Ten Ways to Labor Peace by Richard P. Doherty
  • Harvard Goes to Market by Will Cloney featuring Harvard football with large photo of coach Dick Harlow
  • The Million-Dollar Squeak by Thomas Newman about Inner Sanctum hosted by Paul McGrath
  • The Great Stampede by Dickson Hartwell
  • Homes for Americans – No. 5 by Darrell Huff
  • Queenmaker by Allen Rankin about bees and the honey industry
  • STORIES:

  • “The Man Who Won the War” by Samuel W. Taylor and illustrated by Dun Roman
  • “The Look in Mama’s Eyes” — Short Short Story by Lucille Graceman with illustration by Glen Thomas
  • Address: Central Park by S.P. Walker with large color illustration by Jay Nourbell
  • The Curse of the Pryors – Conclusion by Frank Bonham with large color illustration by Ernest Chiriacka
  • PICTURES:

  • The Camera Eye
  • BOOK CONDENSATION:

  • The Foxes of Harrow by Frank Yerby
  • FEATURES:

  • Vox Pop
  • On the Beam
  • Books in Review
  • Crossword Puzzle
  • Veterans’ Bulletin Board
  • The Thropp Family
  • Woman-Talk
  • Liberty Goes to the Movies – “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers” starring Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas and Van Heflin with three photos over 2 pages
  • The Thropp Family written by Lawrence Lariar and illustrated by Don Lou
  • EDITORIAL:

  • We Can’t Risk Isolation by Paul Hunter
  • Ad on back cover for Chesterfield features New York Yankees manager Bill Dickey and New York Giants manager Mel Ott
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    1893-12 Century Magazine Contents Page for December 1889

    1893/12 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Edwin Booth
  • To Lowell on this Fortieth Birthday by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fifth Avenue by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
  • The Yellow Globe by Alexander W. Drake
  • My First Lions — Huntingt Fierce Game in Eastern Africa by H.W. Seton-Karr
  • The Factions of Kitwyk by Anna Eichberg King
  • The Watchman by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Artist’s Adventures – The Rush to Death by Walter Shirlaw
  • The Bowers of Paradise by Clinton Scollard
  • A Morning in Spring by Horatio Walker
  • The Casting Vote — Part 1 of 2 by Charles Egbert Craddock
  • John Henderson, Artist by George Kennan
  • George Michel — The Painter of Montmartre by Virginia Vaughan
  • Taking Napoleon to St. Helena – Part 2 of 2 by John R. Glover
  • Bismarck at Friedrichsruh by Eleonora Kinnicutt
  • Tramping with Tramps by Josiah Flynt
  • Farewell to Italy by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • Escape of the Confederate Secretary of War by John Taylor Wood
  • A Prayer in Thessaly by John Hay
  • Humor, Wit, Fun, and Satire. Prefatory Note by Charles Eliot Norton by James Russell Lowell
  • Memories and Letters of Edwin Booth by William Bispham
  • Combatants by Florence Earle Coates
  • Mr. Cummins’ Relinquishment by Richard Malcolm Johnston
  • Topics of the Time:
    Lowell’s Last Gift to Literature

  • Buying and Selling Votes
  • The Burden of Age by Edith M. Thomas
  • Establish Trade Schools
  • Lessons of the Silver Delusion
  • Notes to the Apprentice Series
  • Open Letters:

  • The Sale of Votes in New Hampshire by J. B. Harrison
  • New School of Italian Opera by W. J. Henderson
  • The Century Series of American Artists – Horatio Walker by W. Lewis Fraser
  • A Memory of Whittier by Sarah Ellen Palmer
  • In Lighter Vein:

  • Luvbyrd Goes A-courting by Janus
  • Baby Dorothy by David L. Proudfit
  • Irish Songs. “Five Little Gossoons” by Jennie E.T. Dowe
  • The Doctrine of Eternal Punishment by Howard Helmick
  • In the Studio by F.O. Small
  • Observations by Dorothea Lummis
  • The Tower in Madison Square by Theodore C. Williams
  • A Century of Fashion by M.L. Rayne
  • Farm Superstitions by Doane Robinson
  • Only and Understanding by M. C. S.
  • The Point of View by X.X.X.
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    1893-11 Century Magazine Contents Page for November 1889

    1893/11 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Edwin Booth
  • To Lowell on this Fortieth Birthday by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fifth Avenue by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
  • The Yellow Globe by Alexander W. Drake
  • My First Lions — Huntingt Fierce Game in Eastern Africa by H.W. Seton-Karr
  • The Factions of Kitwyk by Anna Eichberg King
  • The Watchman by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Artist’s Adventures – The Rush to Death by Walter Shirlaw
  • The Bowers of Paradise by Clinton Scollard
  • A Morning in Spring by Horatio Walker
  • The Casting Vote — Part 1 of 2 by Charles Egbert Craddock
  • John Henderson, Artist by George Kennan
  • George Michel — The Painter of Montmartre by Virginia Vaughan
  • Taking Napoleon to St. Helena – Part 2 of 2 by John R. Glover
  • Bismarck at Friedrichsruh by Eleonora Kinnicutt
  • Tramping with Tramps by Josiah Flynt
  • Farewell to Italy by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • Escape of the Confederate Secretary of War by John Taylor Wood
  • A Prayer in Thessaly by John Hay
  • Humor, Wit, Fun, and Satire. Prefatory Note by Charles Eliot Norton by James Russell Lowell
  • Memories and Letters of Edwin Booth by William Bispham
  • Combatants by Florence Earle Coates
  • Mr. Cummins’ Relinquishment by Richard Malcolm Johnston
  • Topics of the Time:
    Lowell’s Last Gift to Literature

  • Buying and Selling Votes
  • The Burden of Age by Edith M. Thomas
  • Establish Trade Schools
  • Lessons of the Silver Delusion
  • Notes to the Apprentice Series
  • Open Letters:

  • The Sale of Votes in New Hampshire by J. B. Harrison
  • New School of Italian Opera by W. J. Henderson
  • The Century Series of American Artists – Horatio Walker by W. Lewis Fraser
  • A Memory of Whittier by Sarah Ellen Palmer
  • In Lighter Vein:

  • Luvbyrd Goes A-courting by Janus
  • Baby Dorothy by David L. Proudfit
  • Irish Songs. “Five Little Gossoons” by Jennie E.T. Dowe
  • The Doctrine of Eternal Punishment by Howard Helmick
  • In the Studio by F.O. Small
  • Observations by Dorothea Lummis
  • The Tower in Madison Square by Theodore C. Williams
  • A Century of Fashion by M.L. Rayne
  • Farm Superstitions by Doane Robinson
  • Only and Understanding by M. C. S.
  • The Point of View by X.X.X.
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    1893-10 Century Magazine Contents Page for October 1893

    1893/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted
  • Life among the German Tramps by Josiah Flynt
  • Plague on a Pleasure-Boat by J. Stuart Stevenson
  • The Cold Meteorite by William Reed Huntington
  • Taking Napoleon to St. Helena by John R. Glover
  • Life by Florence Earle Coates
  • Letters of Walt Whitman in War-Time by Walt Whitman – 9 pages, 8 all text by Whitman, 1 a full-page engraving of Whitman
  • Light in Shade — A Painting by I. H. Caliga
  • The Cats of Henriette Ronner by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Frederick Law Olmstead by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • The Vanishing City by Richard Watson Gilder
  • The Pratt Institute by James R. Campbell
  • Balcony Stories – A Delicate Affair by Grace King
  • Balcony Stories – Pupasse by Grace King
  • Street-Paving in America by William Fortune
  • Beranger by C. Coquelin
  • The Heir of the McHulishes — Part 2 of 2 by Bret Harte
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini — Conclusion by Tomasso Salvini
  • The Autumn Waste by Archibald Lampman
  • Benefits Forgot by Wolcott Balestier
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Richard T Auchmuty
  • A Word or Two, By Your Leave
  • Do not Miss the World’s Fair
  • A True Friend of the American Working-Man
  • Substitutes for the Extinct Apprentice System
  • Open Letters:

  • State Education of Frenchwomen by Theodore Stanton
  • The Question of Sex in Teacher’s Salaries by M. Babcock
  • The Apprentice System in Switzerland by H. J. Burger
  • Quits by Tudor Jenks
  • The Century’s American Artists Series by W. Lewis Fraser
  • A Muzhik’s Gratitude for the Gifts of Americans to Starving Russians by Jonas Stadling
  • In Lighter Vein:

  • A Song to Her by Frank Dempster Sherman
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    1893-08 Century Magazine Contents Page for August 1893

    1893/08 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Phillips Brooks
  • Fez, the Mecca of the Moors by Stephen Bonsal
  • Philips Brooks’s Letters to Children, with Notes on his Home Life
  • The Prince and Princess Achille Murat in Florida by Matilda L. McConnell
  • The Century Series of American Artists – Fox and Crows by Winslow Homer – A single full page illustration
  • Cup Defenders Old and New by W. P. Stephens
  • The White Islander — Part 3 of 4 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • The Century Series of American Artists. “Little Nell” by F. Edwin Elwell
  • Balcony Stories – One of Us by Grace King
  • Balcony Stories – The Little Convent Girl by Grace King
  • Breathing Movements as a Cure by Thomas J. Mays
  • Farmer Eli’s Vacation by Alice Brown
  • The Famine in Russia – Relief Work of the Younger Tolstoy by Jonas Stadling
  • An Artist’s Letters from Japan – Yokohama, Kamakura by John LaFarge
  • Contemporary Japanese Art by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa
  • A Swedish Etcher – Anders Zorn by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Mr. Jones’s Experiment by James Sager Norton
  • The Poet by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • The Philosophers’ Camp – Emerson, Agassiz, and Lowell in the Adirondacks by W. J. Stillman
  • A Sister of Saints – Gilberte Pascal by Marion Libby
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 9 by Wolcott Balestier
  • Quatrains by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The Redemptioner by Edward Eggleston
  • At Niagara by Richard Watson Gilder
  • August by John Vance Cheney
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Foreign Control of Labor-Unions
  • Silver and the Debtor Class
  • Open Letters:

  • Business Politics by Charles Fiske
  • “The Century’s” American Artists Series. Winslow Homer by W. Lewis Fraser – About a half page of text
  • “Napoleon’s Deportation to Elba” by Birge Harrison
  • In Lighter Vein:

  • The Harbor-Mother by Grace Duffield Goodwin
  • How Hans Pickel Saw the Brooklyn Bridge by Nathan Haskell Dole
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    1893-07 Century Magazine Contents Page for July 1893

    1893/07 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Sarah Siddons
  • Color in the Court of Honor at the Fair by Royal Cortissoz
  • The White Islander — Part 2 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • The Galaxy by Charles J. O’Malley
  • The Most Picturesque Place in the World – Le Puy, France by J. and E. R. Pennell
  • Thomas Hardy by Harriet Waters Preston
  • The Official Defense of Russian Persecution by Joseph Jacobs
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini — Part 4 by Tomasso Salvini
  • In Granada by Archibald Gordon
  • Balcony Stories – Anne Marie and Jeanne Marie by Grace King
  • Balcony Stories – A Crippled Hope by Grace King
  • Sarah Siddons by Edmund Gosse
  • Sextains by George Edgar Montgomery
  • Old Portsmouth Profiles by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The Mocking-Bird by Ednah Proctor Clarke
  • The Century Series of American Artists. “Sea-Bird and Land-Bird” by Mary Hallock Foote
  • The Intoxicated Ghost by Arlo Bates
  • Moonlight from the Cliff by Dora Read Goodale
  • The Reign of Queen Anne – The Author of “Gulliver” by M. O. W. Oliphant
  • An Artist’s Letters from Japan. Bric-A-Brac by John LaFarge
  • Dawn by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Mental Medicine: The Treatment of Disease by Suggestion by Allan McLane Hamilton
  • Famous Indians — Portraits of Some Indian Chiefs by C. E. S. Wood – 10 page feature with portraits shown on medallions by Olin L. Warner and brief biographies of: Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce – Encheaskwe of the Coeur d’ Alenes – Seltice of the Coeur d’Alenes – Lot, Chief of the Spokanes – “Young Chief” of the Cayuse Indians – Moses, or Sulktash-Kosha, Chief of the Okinokanes – Sabina, daughter of Kash-Kash, Chief of the Walla-Wallas – Yatiniawitz, or “Poor Crane” Chief of the Cayuses
  • Benefits Forgot by Wolcott Balestier
  • A Voice for the People of Russia by George Kennan
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Origin and Growth of the Spoils System
  • Compulsory Public Service
  • Hostility of Foreign to American Labor
  • Open Letters:

  • Poets Laureate (Who Wore the Laurels?) by Kenyon West
  • Children of the Dependent Poor: How Shall We Educate Them? by Louise Seymour Houghton
  • In Lighter Vein:

  • Biography by Elizabeth C. Cardozo
  • In the Wings by Bliss Carman
  • About Sunrise by Doane Robinson
  • Grimalkin by Clinton Scollard
  • A Literary Order by John Kendrick Bangs
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    1893-06 Century Magazine Contents Page for June 1893

    1893/06 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: The Juno of Argos – Discovered in 1892 by the American School of Athens
  • Caught on a Lee Shore – Pleasures and Perils of a Cruise on the Florida Coast by Lieut. William Henn
  • “Where Helen Sits” by Laura E. Richards
  • The Death of Prince Imperial by Archibald Forbes
  • Vierge: The Father of Modern Illustration by August F. Jaccaci
  • College Athletics by Walter Camp
  • Notable Women: Christiana Rossetti by Edmund Gosse
  • The Juno of Argos by Charles Waldstein
  • “My White Rose of Killarney” by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • The White Islander — Part 1 of 4 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • Balcony Stories – The Story of the Day by Grace King
  • The Hermit-Thrush — Drawing by Mary Hallock Foote
  • An Hour with Robert Franz by Henry T. Finck
  • The Public Health: The Duty of the Nation in Guarding It by T. Mitchell Prudden, M.D.
  • “If Spirits Walk” by Ellen Burroughs
  • With Tolstoy in the Russian Famine by Jonas Stadling
  • Writing to Rosina – Part 2 of 2 by William Henry Bishop
  • Art by Florence Earle Coates
  • The Century Series of American Artists – The Widow by Charles Sprague Pearce
  • In Cowboy-Land by Theodore Roosevelt – 9 pages with 2 illustrations by Frederic Remington
  • Heart-Song by Lucile Du Pre
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 7 by Wolcott Balestier
  • Mrs. Pettibone’s Dinner-Horn by Charles Battell Loomis
  • To the Cicada Septendecim by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • The Poet-Heart by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • The Sunlight by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • Uncle Obadiah’s Uncle Billy by William Henry Shelton
  • Topics of the Time:

  • A National Board of Health
  • Has Gold Appreciated in Value?
  • The Disappearance of the Apprentice System
  • Open Letters:

  • Women’s Work and Wages by B.
  • The Australian Registry of Land Titles by C. Stuart Patterson
  • Specialists in Church Music Wanted by Waldo S. Pratt
  • The Australian Registry of Land Titles by Edward Atkinson
  • In Lighter Vein:

  • Polite to Strangers by Alice Turner
  • Blown About by Harry Romaine
  • Circumstances by Matthew Blake
  • The Delsarte Girl by Alice E. Ives
  • Circumstances and Cases by Margaret Vandegrift
  • An Impossibility by Maurice Thompson
  • In a London Ball-Room by L. B. W.
  • A Portrait in Distemper by Harrison S. Morris
  • A Prairie Heroine by Doane Robinson
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    1893-05 Century Magazine Contents Page for May 1893

    1893/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: The World’s Fair – Looking North from the Lion Fountain
  • At the Fair by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer (1893 Columbian Exposition) – 11 pages loaded with illustrations
  • Decorative Painting at the World’s Fair by W. Lewis Fraser
  • “The White City” by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Sweet Bells out of Tune — Conclusion by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson
  • The Knight of Pentecost by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Recollections of Lord Tennyson by John Addington Symonds
  • To Alfred Tennyson by Aubrey De Vere
  • An Embassy to Provence — Conclusion by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 6 by Wolcott Balestier
  • A Lie by Ellen M. H. Gates
  • Personal Impressions of Nicaragua by Gilbert Gaul
  • The Chevalier de Resseguier by Thomas Bailey Aldrich with picture by Howard Pyle
  • The Lake of the Dead by Henry Morton
  • Joseph Bonaparte in Bordentown by F. Marion Crawford
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini by Tomasso Salvini
  • “Some Verses Carol” by Henry Jerome Stockard
  • The Reign of Queen Anne. The Queen and the Duchess by M. O. W. Oliphant
  • John Muir by John Swett with portrait – 4 pages
  • Mr. Gadsbury’s Brother by M. Frances Swann Williams
  • Relics of Artemus Ward by Don C. Seitz
  • An Inside View of the Pension Bureau by A. B. Casselman
  • “With the Tread of Marching Columns” by S. R. Elliot
  • Writing to Rosina — Part 1 of 2 by William Henry Bishop
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Two Values of the Silver Dollar
  • Lincoln on the Spoils System
  • Corrupt Practices Laws: Why They Fail
  • American Boys and American Labor
  • Open Letters:

  • What the Phonograph will do for Music by Philip G. Hubert, Jr.
  • Indians who Deserve Pensions by Theodore Roosevelt – Long letter in small text spreads over 2 pages, total about 1 full page of text
  • A Hint in Municipal Reform by Joseph Hatton
  • An American Theater in London
  • “Better United States Senators” by H. Turner Newcomb
  • A Friend of Kindergarten by A. H. P.
  • The Kindergarten in Canada by James L. Hughes
  • California’s Presidential Elections by J. F. Thompson
  • A Psychological Suggestion by H. C. Wood
  • In Lighter Vein:

  • Michael Will Not Be In It by Charles Battell Loomis
  • Reflections on Adversity by Ethelwyn Wetherald
  • The Prig by Edgar Fawcett
  • The Decline of Profanity by Edward Cary
  • The Contributor’s Dream by H. S. Huntington
  • Saints and Sinners by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Mrs. Fulsom’s Journey by Alice Turner
  • Over the Sea Lies Spain by Charles Washington Coleman
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    1893-03 Century Magazine Contents Page for March 1893

    1893/03 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Napoleon
  • The Violincello of Jufrow Rozenboom by Anna Eichberg King
  • An Embassy to Provence — Part 2 by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Silence by Maria Bowen Chapin
  • Napoleon’s Deportation to Elba — By the Officer in Charge by Thomas Ussher, R.N.
  • Jamaica by Gilbert Gaul
  • Sherman – Letters of Two Brothers: Passages from the Correspondence of General and Senator Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman and John Sherman — 11 pages
  • Caprice by N.
  • Westminster Abbey by Henry B. Fuller
  • The Rousing of Mrs. Potter by Gertrude Smith
  • The Present State of Old Testament Criticism by Edward Lewis Curtis
  • Chicago by Marion Couthouy Smith
  • Camille Saint-Saens by H. E. Krehbiel
  • Meridian by Charles T. Dazey
  • Have ye Niver Heerd tell o’ Rose Creagan? by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • My Sister Lydia — From a painting by Edmund C. Tarbell
  • Sweet Bells Out of Tune — Part 5 by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson
  • The Dead King by George Horton
  • Artist Life by the North Sea by H. W. Ranger
  • One Touch of Nature by Edgar Fawcett
  • At the Keith Ranch by Anna Fuller
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 4 by Wolcott Balestier
  • The Cosmopolis City Club — Part 3 by Washington Gladden
  • Topics of the Time:

  • How Can We Secure Better United States Senators?
  • Direct Presidential Voting
  • A General Free Library Movement
  • Open Letters:

  • The Kindergarten Movement in Chicago by Alice H. Putnam
  • The Kindergarten in Turkey by Carrie P Farnsworth Fowle
  • In Lighter Vein:

  • The United States Poetry Company, Limited by John Kendrick Bangs
  • A Struggle for Life by Alice Turner
  • Observations by C. O. Stevens
  • The Ballade of the Spoons by Alice Williams Brotherton
  • The Century Series of Pictures by American Artists. Sunset – Coast of Etretat by George Inness
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    1939-07-03 Life Magazine Contents Page for July 3, 1939

    1939/07/03 — Cover featuring Swimsuits in Fashion is credited to George Strock

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • An American Admiral and Forty Warships Stand Guard on Asia’s War
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Tom Dewey, Golfer, Takes a Drink
  • Colleges Turn Out Honorary “Doctors”
  • TVA Becomes Master of Tennessee Power
  • Tallulah Bankhead Lobbies “Uncle John” for the Federal Theatre Project …. While 12,000 Actors Brawl in New York
  • Sidney Wooderson Loses a Race
  • Price Edward Cuts Up
  • Nijinsky Dances Again in a Swiss Insane Asylum
  • A Republican Senator and a Democratic Representative Debate National Policy
  • Germany Enters Race for Colonies in Antarctica
  • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • LIFE Goes to the New York World’s Fair – 16 pages
  • RELIGION:

  • Salvation Army Cadets Get Commissions to Carry on “Soup and Soap” Evangelism
  • SCIENCE:

  • Black Light Enables Traffic to Move in Black-Outs
  • ART:

  • Bowery Bum Gets Benefit Show by Noted Artists
  • MODERN LIVING:

  • Hollywood Starlets Cause Red Menace in Beach Clothes
  • MOVIES:

  • “Bachelor Mother” starring Ginger Rogers
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — Blumenfeld’s Are the Tops
  • Pictures to the Editors
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    1938-05-29 Life Magazine Contents Page for May 29, 1938

    1939/05/29 — Cover featuring Eleanor Roosevelt is credited to Mark Kauffman

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The King and Queen Sit on an American Throne
  • The British Ambassador Holds His First Press Conference
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the Wolrd
  • Peru’s Unbelievable Mother and Baby
  • Bayonets Gleam in Bloody Harlan County
  • Doctors Put Patients in “Frozen Sleep”
  • Rochester Gets Tryout of Federal Stamp Plan for Giving food to Needy
  • Navy Searchlights Play for New York as Sailors Take in Coney Island
  • Mr. Woodward Sees His Johnstown Lose Preakness to Maryland’s Favorite Horse
  • The Shah of Iran Shows Off His Capital at Son’s Wedding
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • Franco – A Dictator in Spite of Himself
  • … and His Generals Who Won the Spanish War
  • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Hyde Park – The President’s Estate
  • THEATER:

  • Amateur Theater – U.S. Drama Flourishes Far From Broadway
  • ART:

  • Old Masters Worth $30,000,000 Go to New York Fair
  • SPORTS:

  • Maryland Schoolboys Crack Skulls and Shins at Lacrosse Game
  • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • A Stork Family Rears Its Young
  • MOVIE:

  • “The Puritan” – French Murder Film Runs into Censor Trouble
  • WORLD’S FAIR:

  • Soviet Worker Towers Over Fair
  • Expensive WPA Building Causes Ruckus
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — Cobina Wright is the “Most” Girl
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to a Children’s Dancing Class
  • Pictures to the Editors
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    1952-12-16 Look Magazine Contents for December 16, 1952

    1952/12/16 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis by James Hansen; Jack Scarbath of Maryland by Wide World; Jana Jones by Arthur Rothstein

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATION:

  • John Lardner’s New York
  • My Life With George Burns by Gracie Allen
  • “Let’s Keep Christmas” by Peter Marshall
  • Lunatics at Large by William H. White
  • “All We’ve Got Down Here Is Money”
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington
  • THE WORLD:

  • Indo-China Near Disaster — Asia 1952 — Part 4 by William O. Douglas
  • Princess Margaret Rose – Whom Will She Marry? — Part 2 by Marion Crawford
  • LOOK Reports: Is Korea With a War With Russia? by Geoffrey Crowther
  • SPORTS:

  • What Is the All America by Tim Cohane
  • 1952 LOOK All America Football Team by Grantland Rice
  • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Fresh Faces on TV
  • A Quiet Man’s Movies about Hal Wallis
  • Martin and Lewis Go Texan
  • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • The Shell Game
  • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Italian Clothes Get the American Treatment
  • CHRISTMAS FEATURES:

  • Gift Foods in Ten Minutes
  • How Children Would Run Christmas by Charlotte Willard
  • The Experts Talk About Christmas Toys
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes
  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime
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    1952-10-21 Look Magazine Contents for October 21, 1952

    1952/10/21 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Roxanne by Frank Bauman; Coach Frank Leahy by Frank Bauman; Donald O’Connor by Ray Jones of UI

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATION:

  • John Lardner’s New York
  • Going Broke on $10,000 a Year by Jay Taylor
  • Good Old School Haze
  • FEPC: How It Works in Seven States by J.C Furnas
  • Let’s Cook With Ike by Fleur Cowles
  • What Is a Catholic? by John Cogley
  • Alambama’s “Our John” Sparkman by Joyce Jones
  • Will It Ousell the King James Bible?
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington
  • THE WORLD:

  • Jumping Sisters
  • Guided Missiles – From Science Fiction to Fearsome Fact by Dr. Louis Ridenour, Jr.
  • LOOK Reports: Stalin’s Assassins
  • SPORTS:

  • Is Notre Dame Football Going to Pot? by Tim Cohane
  • They’re Not Built for Grandma! by Ralph Stein
  • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Audrey … The New Hepburn featuring Audrey Hepburn – Photos spread over 5 pages (2 full and 3 half-pages)
  • Jackpot O’Connor featuring Donald O’Connor
  • Beatrice Lillie – One Woman Show
  • ART:

  • Edmondson’s Visions in Stone by F.W. Woolsey
  • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Who Makes the Clothes That Make the American Woman?
  • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • From Any Angle It’s News by Perkins H. Bailey
  • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • Machine-Made Lawns
  • Cheesetown, U.S.A.
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes
  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime
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    1894-09 The Forum Magazine Contents for September 1894

    1894/09 – Contents as taken from the front cover and/or table of contents page are as follows:

  • The Lessons of Recent Civil Disorders by Honorable T.M. Cooley
  • Teaching by Travel – A School Excursion from Indiana to Virginia by Dr. J.M. Rice
  • The Proportion of College-Trained Preachers by Professor F.G. Peabody
  • Present Industrial Problems in the Light of History by Edward Atkinson
  • Results of the Parliament of Religions by Reverend J.H. Barrows
  • The Pay of Physicians and Surgeons by Dr. George F. Shrady
  • Macaulay’s Place in Literature by Frederic Harrison
  • Home-Life in India – Child-Marriage and Widows by Purushotam Rao Telang of Bombay
  • University Training and Citizenship by Woodrow Wilson – 10 pages of text by the future American President
  • The Profit-Sharing Labor Universities of Antwerp by J.H. Gore
  • How to Bring Work and Workers Together by Jacob A. Riis
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    1894-05 The Forum Magazine Contents for May 1894

    1894/05 – Contents as taken from the front cover and/or table of contents page are as follows:

  • A Year of Democratic Administration by Ex-Governor William E. Russell
  • A Year of Democratic Administration by Senator S.M. Cullon
  • Current Plans for Reforming Society – The Cry for State Help:

  • Neccessity of State Aid to the Unemployed by Dr. Stanton Coit
  • The Dangerous Absurdity of State Aid by D. McG. Means
  • Universities and the Training of Professors by President G.S. Hall
  • The Mean of Farm-Mortgage Statistics by Edward Atkinson
  • The Dilatory Senate and Depression in Trade by Louis Windmuller
  • The Stability of the House of Lords by J. Castell Hopkins
  • Child-Study – A Teacher’s Record of Her Pupils by Mary E. Laing
  • Home Life, English and American by Price Collier
  • President Eliot’s Twenty-Five Years of Service by President Charles F. Thwing
  • Why Church Property Should Be Taxed by Reverend Madison C. Peters
  • Is Faith in a Future Life Declining? by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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    1879-10 Harper’s Monthly Magazine Contents for October 1879

    1879/10 –

  • On the Skirt of the Alps by George E. Waring, Jr.
  • Painted Glass in Household Decoration by Charles A. Cole
  • The Connemara Hills by Miss J. L. Cloud
  • Fifty Years of American Art — Part 3 by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • A Ramble in Central Park by Helen S. Conant
  • The Two Burdens — A Poem by Philip Bourke Marston
  • Through Texas by Frank H. Taylor
  • White Wings — Chapters 8-10 of a serialized Yachting Romance by William Black
  • The State of the Alcohol Question by Dr. T. M. Coan
  • Belle’s Diary by Mary N. Prescott
  • Young Mrs. Jardine — A Novel by Dinah Mulock Craik
  • The Revolution in the Life of Mr. Balingall by Sherwood Bonner
  • Mary Anerley — Chapters 10-13 of a serialized novel by R. D. Blackmore
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer
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    1894-08 The Forum Magazine Contents for August 1894

    1894/08 – Contents as taken from the front cover and/or table of contents page are as follows:
    Sentimental Dealing with Crime, and its World-Wide Increase:

  • Principles Involved in the Recent Strike by D. McG. Means
  • Punishment of Anarchists and Others by Henry Holt
  • Criminal Degradation of New York Citizenship by John Brooks Leavitt
  • The Increase of Crime, and Positivist Criminology by Henry Charles Lea
  • Legalized Plunder of Railroad Properties – The Remedy by Isaac L. Rice
  • Productive Conditions of American Literature by Hamlin Garland
  • How the Bills of Socialism will Be Paid by Sylvester Baxter
  • Laboratory Mind-Study – The Beginnings of a New Science:

  • The New Psychology as a Basis of Education by President G. Stanley Hall
  • Methods of Laboratory Mind-Study by Professor E.W. Scripture
  • Englishmen – How They Spend Their Money by Price Collier

  • The Pay of Preachers by H.K. Carroll
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    1894-07 The Forum Magazine Contents for July 1894

    1894/07 – Contents as taken from the front cover and/or table of contents page are as follows:
    The Violence of Religious Intolerance in the Republic:

  • The American Protective Association by F.R. Coudert
  • The Riotous Career of the Know-Nothings by Professor J.B. McMaster
  • Studies of Great Victorian Writers:

  • Carlyle’s Place in Literature by Frederic Harrison
  • The Manly Virtues and Practical Politics by Theodore Roosevelt – 7 pages by the future U.S. President
  • Efforts Toward Clear Aims in Education:

  • Research the Vital Spirit of Teaching by President G.S. Hall
  • The Ideal Training of an American Boy by Thomas Davidson
  • Will the Co-Educated Co-Educate Their Children? by Professor Martha F. Crow
  • The Health of Boston and Philadelphia by Dr. J.S. Billings
  • The Money that would Rule the World by Hon. M.D. Harter
  • The Government’s Faulure as a Builder by Montgomery Schuyler
  • The Stage as a Career: An Actor’s Experience by R. De Cordova
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    1894-02 The Forum Magazine Contents for February 1894

    1894/02 – Contents as taken from the front cover and/or table of contents page are as follows:

  • Methods of Relief for the Unemployed by Josephine S. Lowell
  • The Personal Problem of Charity by Reverend Dr. Lyman Abbott
  • A Review of the Hawaiian Controversy by James Schouler
  • The Nicaragua Canal – Ours or England’s? by Courtenay De Kalb
  • The Wilson Tariff for a Deficit Only by Albert Clarke, Secretary of the Home Market Club
  • English Literature of the Victorian Age by Frederic Harrison
  • A Calendar of Great Americans by Woodrow Wilson – 13 pages by the future U.S. President
  • Child-Study, A New Department of Education by Oscar Chrisman
  • The Gold Basis Fixed by Commerce Itself by Edward Atkinson
  • A Bootless Wrangle about Religion in the Schools by Professor J.H. Hyslop
  • To Rob Consumption of its Terrors by Dr. H.M. Biggs
  • The Production of Gold: Is the Supply Sufficient? by J.E. Fraenkel
  • Incomes of the Professional Classes in England by Price Collier
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    1894-01 The Forum Magazine Contents for January 1894

    1894/01 – Contents as taken from the front cover and/or table of contents page are as follows:

  • The Teaching of Recent Economic Experiences by David A. Wells
  • Principle and Method of the Tariff Bill by Honorable W.L. Wilson, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee
  • Sumner by Senator George F. Hoar
  • Has Immigration Dried Up Our Literature? by Sydney G. Fisher
  • The Decline of the American Pulpit by Reverend G. Monroe Royce
  • The New Sectionalism–A Western Warning by Professor L.M. Keasbey of the University of Colorado
  • Are Morals Improving or Deteriorating? by Daniel G. Thompson
  • Directions and Volume of our Literary Activities by A.R. Spofford – Librarian of Congress
  • British Investors and our Currency Legislation by W. Wetherell of the Liverpool, England “Daily Post”
  • Results of the Copyright Law by George Haven Putnam
  • A Christmas Reminder of the Noblest Work in the World by J.A. Riis
  • Are Foot-Ball Games Educative or Brutalizing? — The entire folowing section numbers 21 pages of text:

  • A Physician’s View of the Game by Dr. D.B. St. J. Roosa
  • Some Opinions by a Group of College Presidents by President Schurman of Cornell University, President Angell of the University of Michigan and President Warfield of Lafayette College
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    1924-12 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for December 1924

    1924/12 — Contents as follows:

  • The Christian Statesman by Edgar Lee Masters
  • The Grammarian — A Story by John McClure
  • Trial by Jury by Harry Elmer Barnes
  • Americana
  • Editorial
  • Therapeutic Thaumaturgy by Arthur J. Cramp
  • Congressional Letters by Hilton Butler
  • High Dignitaries of State by James M. Cain
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • Conclusion — A Story by L.M. Hussey
  • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Modern Infantry by Elbridge Colby
  • The Ring That Rules Our Opera by Charles Henry Meltzer
  • As Latin America Sees Us by Isaac Goldberg
  • The Burden of the Cross by Don C. Seitz
  • A Whitman Manuscript by Emory Holloway
  • Why Go to College? by Richard Burton
  • This Being and Immigrant by George A. Schreiner
  • Varieties of Homo Sapiens by D.W. Fisher
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
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    1924-11 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for November 1924

    1924/11 — Contents as follows:

  • On Doing the Right Thing by Albert Jay Nock
  • Jesus and His Biographers by Alphonse B. Miller
  • The Uninvited — A Story by Thomas Boyd
  • Politician: Female by James M. Cain
  • The Liberty Bell by Henry J. Ford
  • Americana
  • Editorial
  • The Biology of Population Growth by Raymond Pearl
  • The Shroud of Color — A Poem by Countee P. Cullen
  • Clinical Notes by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan
  • The Umbilical Cord by William Seagle
  • Nantucket by Walter Prichard Eaton
  • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Wood Alcohol Bugaboo by L.M. Hussey
  • The New Outlook in Weather Forecasting by Charles Fitzhugh Talman
  • Teaching the Young to Think by D.W. Fisher
  • William Kidd, Gentleman by Homer H. Cooper
  • More Wokr for Uplifters by James Stevens
  • The Hammer of Heretics by R.F. Dibble
  • Aesthetics: A Palaver by Lewis Mumford
  • Malaria by Thomas J. LeBlanc
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
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    1924-10 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for October 1924

    1924/10 — Contents as follows:

  • Arsenals of Hatred by Duncan Aikman
  • Notes of an Amateur Father by Chester T. Crowell
  • Masterpiece — A Story by Robert B. Garey
  • Editorial
  • The Yankee in Paris by Vincent O’Sullivan
  • The Question of Racial Purity by Franz Boas
  • Americana
  • Why Men Leave Kansas by Charles B. Driscoll
  • The Dilemma of the Negro by W.E.B. DuBois
  • Walt Whitman on Himself – From the Diary of Horace Traubel
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • Government by Yokel by Orville A. Welsh
  • The Arts and Sciences:

  • On Literary Groups by Maxwell Bodenheim
  • The Advantage of Senator La Follette by Alexander Harvey
  • Birth Control: An Unsolved Problem by Morris Dishbein
  • The Sentimentalist — A Story by Ben Hecht
  • Devastated Regions by Lewis Mumford
  • Highway Personages by Isaac R. Pennypacker
  • Wells of Correct Thought by Bruce Gould
  • Notes on the Vernacular by Louise Pound
  • The Railroads on the Griddle by Richard Hoadley Tingley
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
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    1924-09 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for September 1924

    1924/09 — Contents as follows:

  • The Anglo-Saxon Myth by Henry J. Ford
  • Song Tournament: New Style — A Poem by Louis Untermeyer
  • Voila, Anatole France by Jean-Jacques Brousson
  • A Start in Life — A Story by Ruth Suckow
  • The Japanese Bugaboo by David Warren Ryder
  • Editorial
  • Morals in the Two-A-Day by Marian Spitzer
  • Americana
  • The Statesman as Artist by Duncan Aikman
  • Fads in Health Legislation by Morris Fishbein
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The Devil’s Advocate by R.F. Dibble
  • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Koussevitsky by Ernest Newman
  • What Is Disease? by Paul H. DeKruif
  • Architecture and the Machine by Lewis Mumford – 3-1/2 pages
  • Mr. Durant — A Story by Dorothy Parker
  • American Portraits – 7: The Country Banker by Charles B. Driscoll
  • A Boyhood in the Bush by Thomas J. LeBlanc
  • The Law: First Year by William Seagle
  • Hunting Bolsheviks in 1798 by Henry Elmer Barnes
  • Gentlemen All by D.R. Potter
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
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