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1925-06 The American Magazine Contents for June 1925

Jan.15, 2010 in American

1925/06 — Cover illustrated by M.L. McMillan

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Looking Forward to the Great Adventure by Booth Tarkington
  • “It Pays to Hang On” by Harry A. Stewart
  • Emerson Carrey – A portrait in photogravure
  • Fannie Kilbourne – A portrait in photogravure
  • Fannie Kilbourne is “A Great Little Self-Starter” by Allison Gray
  • The Laughing House — A Story by Wallace Smith with illustrations by Stockton Mulford
  • Captain Whitelaw Has Raised Hundreds of Wrecks from the Sea by Magner White
  • A World Famous Singer Whose Parents Were Slaves by Mary B. Mullett is about Roland Hayes
  • Stuff of Youth — A story by Ruth Cross with Illustrations by J. Simont
  • Good Morning, Judge by John Monk Saunders and illustrated by Tony Sarg
  • The Top Is All That Can Stop You If You Keep Going Up by Neil M. Clark
  • Carl R. Gray – A portrait in photogravure
  • Frederick P. Keppel – A portrait in photogravure
  • Keppel’s Job Is to Pour Oil on Troubled Waters by Ralph Hayes
  • The Minister Who Thought He Was a Failure — A Story by Nelia Gardner White with illustrations by Herman Pfeifer
  • I Went to the Klondike On My Father’s Shoulders! by Barrett Willoughby
  • Adventures in Understanding: 10 — The Adventure of the Shabby Man by David Grayson with illustrations by Thomas Fogarty
  • How Much Exercise Is Enough for You? by Arthur A. McGovern
  • Excess Baggage by Ellis Parker Butler
  • We Americans Buy Billions of Flowers a Year by Frank B. Copley
  • “That’s What Homes Are For!” — A story by Alice Garland Steele with illustrations by T.D. Skidmore
  • Every Job Is a Dare by Wheeler McMillen
  • Thrilling Feats of the Men Who Fight Fires by Sherman Gwinn
  • A Veteran Kennel Man Tells About His Most Wonderful Dogs by William S. Dutton
  • Queer Things People Take to a Picture Framer by Norman E. White
  • Discarded — A novel (continued) by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont
  • Everybody Hates a Bad Driver by Robert Chancellor

    • Interesting People:

  • Mrs. Anna Nott Shook by Betty Shannon
  • Hans and Henry Fuhrer by Emma Mauritz Larson
  • Carl Canova by G.W.B. Witten

    • Prize Winning Entries: My Favorite Season

  • Prize Contest Announcement: The Biggest “White Elephant” in My Collection
  • The Family’s Money by Mrs. E.G.H.

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    1925-05 The American Magazine Contents for May 1925

    Jan.15, 2010 in American

    1925/05 — Cover illustrated by Anderson

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Discarded — Part 1 of a serialized novel by Inez Haynes Irwin with illustrations by J. Simont
  • Pick Your Boss With Care by Keene Sumner
  • R.E. Reeves and Family – Pictures in photogravure
  • Harvey C. Miller – A portrait in Photogravure
  • Harvey Miller Starts Where Other Men Quit by William A. McGarry
  • Derickson’s Gagoo — A Story by Conrad Richter and illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman
  • A Haven for Souls in the World’s Money Market by Frank B. Copley
  • Adventures in Understanding: 9 — Jonas by David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty
  • How It Feels to be Psychoanalyzed by Lucian Cary
  • Exit Eglantine! — A Story by Blanche Brace and illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson
  • Blanche Bates Gives Her Secret of Happiness by Mary B. Mullett
  • Blanche Bates – A portrait in photogravure
  • John F. Queeny – A portrait in photogravure
  • “It’s Dangerous to be Too Good a Loser!” by Harry A. Stewart
  • “Don’t Go to Any Trouble” a story by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by T.D. Skidmore
  • Does Your World End at the Foot of Your Own Street? by Neil M. Clark
  • “It’s a Tough Job, But Somebody’s Got to Swing It” by John Monk Saunders
  • His Highness, My Dog by H.I. Phillips
  • Sentenced to Six Months — A Story by Dean L. Heffernan with illustrations by Forrest C. Crooks
  • The Romantic Story of Buttons by John Singleton
  • He Has Learned About People–From Shoes by William S. Dutton
  • How Tremendous Blocks of Granite and Cut from the Vermont Hills by Allan Harding
  • My Six Steps to Self-Mastery by W.L. George
  • Plan Your Yard As Carefully As You Do Your House by John Howe
  • Jen Starts All Over Again — A Story by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Herman Pfeifer
  • “I Can’t See People Smile, So I Like to Hear Them Laugh!” by Helen Christine Bennett
  • The World That Gets Up When You Go To Bed by Charles A. David with drawings by the author

    • Interesting People:

  • Grace Denton by Mildred Harrington
  • Henry Coppinger by Joe Hugh Reese
  • Thomas V. Miller by R.H. Denehey

    • ,li>Mrs. Cora Scovil by Gene Donald

  • J.T. Genn by Louis E. Childers
  • Top 3 Prize Winners for “The Best-Loved Person I Ever Knew”
  • Prize Contest Announcement: The Happiest Day I Ever Spent
  • The Family’s Money by Mrs. G.C.G.

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    1945-05-19 Collier’s Magazine Contents May 19 1945

    Jan.04, 2010 in Colliers

    1945/05/19 — Cover credited to Gray-O’Reilly

    Contents as follows:
    FICTION:

  • Dinner for Two by Ann Napier with illustration by Wendell Kling
  • The Evolution of a Tyrant by John Randolph Phillips and illustrated by John Pike
  • Audition by Dawn Powell and illustrated by Ben Hur Baz
  • Sentimental Week End — Part 2 of 3 — by Elizabeth Dunn with illustration by William Pachner
  • Second Chance by Norman Katkov and illustrated by Lou Cunette
  • The Word — The Short Short Story — by Elizabeth Lyons with illustration by Nathan Machtey

    • ARTICLES:

  • Injustice in the Courtroom by Attorney General Francis Biddle
  • These Are Americans by Quentin Reynolds
  • Wanna Pick a Lock? by The Great Zadma as told to Jule Mannix
  • Why You Don’t Get Meat by W.B. Courtney
  • Dancing Master by Kyle Crichton about Gene Kelly – Kelly appears to have bright future as producer-director-actor … after he leaves the Navy
  • Time Without Years by William Beebe with illustration by Francis Chase
  • For Services Rendered by Flora Murray
  • How to Get Married by Alexandra S. Potts

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster
  • Wing Talk by Robert De Vore
  • The Heroes – A Gallery of United Nations Patriots – No. 30 – Lieutenant Colonel Frederick W. Okie
  • The Week’s Work by Amy Porter
  • Editorials: Peace Without Passion – Lend-Leasing Labor – Those Six “British” Votes

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    1945-07-21 Collier’s Magazine Contents July 21 1945

    Jan.04, 2010 in Colliers

    1945/07/21 — Cover featuring Major General Norman T. Kirk credited to Jerry Cooke

    Contents as follows:
    FICTION:

  • Let’s Go Sweetheart by Norman Katkov and illustrated by Dun Roman
  • Rehearsal for Love — The Short Short Story by Jean Kinkead with illustration by John Collins
  • Beginner’s Luck by Ernest Lehman and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • The Carnal Room by Jessamyn West and illustrated by William Meade Prince
  • Man and Boy by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by Frank Golden
  • Odds Against the Girl — Conclusion of Serial by W.R. Burnett and illustrated by C.C. Beall

    • ARTICLES:

  • The Jungle Is Beaten by Walter Davenport
  • Swindler’s Paradise by Lester Velie
  • That They May Live! by Major General Norman T. Kirk, the Surgeon General of the Army with paintings from the Abbott Collection
  • MacArthur — The Story of a Great American Soldier — Part 2 of 2 by Herbert Asbury and Frank Gervasi

  • Fantastic Ferriss by Roger Birtwell is about Red Sox Dave Ferriss
  • Folies Bergere by Arthur Gordon
  • Revolution in Cotton by J.D. Ratcliff

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster
  • Wing Talk by Frederick R. Neely
  • The Heroes – A Gallery of United Nations Patriots – No. 39: Tech Sgt. Torger D. Tokle by George Creel
  • Your Life Tomorrow by David O. Woodbury
  • The Week’s Work by Amy Porter
  • Editorial: No Tags, No Gags, No Labels

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    1957-06-10 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents June 10 1957

    Dec.20, 2009 in Sports Illustrated

    1957/06/10 – Front cover features U.S. Open defending champion Cary Middlecoff

  • Baseball: Gloom Here–Joy There by Roy Terrell about the season at the one-quarter mark
  • Spectacle: The Queen’s Plate by Horace Sutton and Dan Weiner about Canada’s ‘Kentucky Derby’
  • Sam Wins a Duel in the Sun by Kenneth Rudeen – Sam Hanks wins the Indianapolis 500
  • Preview: The U.S. Open by Herbert Warren Wind, to be held at the Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio plus article about Harry Vardon
  • The Winners! by Jo Ahern about the American Sportswear Design Awards
  • How You Can Play Better Tennis by William F. Talbert and J. Donald Budge with drawings by Ed Vebell
  • The Upper Crust by James Ramsey Ullman about mountain climbing
  • Sport in Art: “The Wolf and the Fox Hunt” by Peter Paul Rubens in full color spread across most of two pages with text at the bottom of the page
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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    1939-03-06 Life Magazine Contents March 6 1939

    Dec.11, 2009 in Life

    1939/03/06 — Cover photograph featuring Tallulah Bankhead is credited to Vandamm Studios

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Golden Gate Exposition Opens with Wild West Wallop
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • The King of Egypt’s Sister to Marry the Shah of Iran’s Son
  • Harry Hopkins Boom for President Starts in Native Iowa
  • Pope Pius is Buried in St. Peter’s
  • New York Nazis Beat Up Jew at Bund Meeting
  • “Mein Kampf” Is Published in Full for U.S. Readers
  • British Destroyer Is Repaired at Gibralter
  • German Battleship Is Launched at Hmaburg

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Fascism in America – Like Communism It Masquerades as Americanism – 7 pages

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Heywood Broun

    • SCIENCE:

  • Camelliams: The South’s Most Aristocratic Bloom Is Yankee Favorite
  • Rats Are Driven Crazy by Insoluable Problems

    • SPORTS:

  • Florida Gives Disbarred Jockey a Second Chance

    • THEATER:

  • “The Little Foxes” – Tallulah Bankhead Has Her First U.S. Hit

    • MOVIES:

  • “Cafe Society” with Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray
  • The First Actress of the Screen Dons a Wig and Plays an Empress – Photo of Bette Davis in “Juarez”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Victorians Loved Rogers Sculpture
  • LIFE Covers the Miami Waterfront
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Color ad featuring Shirley Temple in The Little Princess is on the inside front cover
  • Full-page black & white ad with huge image of Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne in “Love Affair”

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    1939-11-13 Life Magazine Contents November 13 1939

    Dec.11, 2009 in Life

    1939/11/13 — Cover photograph featuring Claudette Colbert is by Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
    U.S. Business Opens Great Barco Oil Fields in Columbia

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Japanese Sentry in Hawaii Demands Salute from Americans
  • Congress Kills Arms Embargo
  • Germans Picture Attack on Rosyth Naval Base
  • New York and San Francisco Fairs Close
  • A British Convoy Crosses the North Sea
  • Giant Snow Cruiser Comes to Grief

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Argentines – LIFE Looks South at a Great and Proud People

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Who’s Who in the German High Command – German Generals including Keitel, Halder, Von Rundstedt, Von Bock

    • ART:

  • Peter Scott Is Best British Bird Painter

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • London Adapts Fashions to Blackouts
  • Dorothy Lamour ‘s Winter Sarong

    • RADIO:

  • “Information Please” is Made into Movie Short

    • THEATER:

  • Gertrude Lawrence Stars in “Skylark”

    • SPORTS:

  • Girls’ Football

  • “Drums Along the Mohawk” starring cover subject Claudette Colbert and Henry Fonda

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Denis Conan Doyle ‘s Spirit Photographs
  • LIFE Calls on Helen Hayes
  • Pictures to the Editors

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    1945-10-08 Life Magazine Contents October 8 1945

    Nov.30, 2009 in Life

    1945/10/08 — Cover photograph featuring General Robert Eichelberger is credited to the U.S. Navy

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Tokyo Express to Hiroshima – Photographs by J.R. Eyerman
  • Editorial: Urgent Business
  • “Paddy” Devereux Greets His Father
  • The “Europa” Returns
  • Mass Murderess of Belsen – Woman leader of Nazi Guards
  • Baseball Season Ends in Argument

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • J. Arthur Rank by Francis Sill Wickware

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Waldorf-Astoria – 8 pages

    • RELIGION:

  • Jewish New Year in Berlin

    • THEATER:

  • Bambi Lynn of Brooklyn Dances on Broadway

    • ART:

  • The Pacific War – American Artists Record the Battles Across the Big Ocean

    • EDUCATION:

  • Educating Hitler Youth – Americans teaching them Democracy

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Fur Hats

    • MOVIES:

  • “The House on 92nd Street”

    • SCIENCE:

  • Texas Raises First U.S. Silk

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Frank Lloyd Wright ‘s New Art Museum
  • LIFE’s Reports: How the World Didn’t End by Claude Stanush
  • LIFE Goes to a Grape Crush
  • Miscellany: Corporal Rahaman’s Pay
  • Full-page color ad for Pan-Cake Make-Up from Max Factor Hollywood features a large color image of Judy Garland promoting “The Harvey Girls”

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    1941-03-03 Life Magazine Contents March 3 1941

    Nov.30, 2009 in Life

    1941/03/03 — Cover photograph featuring Model and Manikin is credited to Walter Sanders

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Roosevelt’s New Deal Sends an Ambassador to Britain’s New Dealers
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • A Frenchman Sheds Tears of Grief As His Country’s Flags Are Exiled to Africa
  • Greeks Push on in Albania
  • British Capture Tobruch
  • Fort Sill Welcomes an Officer and His Bride
  • Churchill’s Daughter Makes Maiden Speech
  • Income Tax: 8,000,000 Americans File First Returns

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell by Harry Zinder

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Australia’s War Effort Forces Continent to Grow Up Industrially

    • BOOKS:

  • “Out of the Night” — Part 2 by Jan Valtin

    • MEDICINE:

  • Pain

    • ART:

  • Diego Rivera ‘s New Mural Depicts Pan-American Unity – includes 4 full pages of color reproductions in the center of the issue

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Model Is Cast in Plaster to Make Manikin Mold

    • MOVIES:

  • Veronica Lake – 3 pages though ads make it more like 2 pages does include a full-page black & white photo of lake, plus 5 other shots of Lake from the time of “I Wanted Wings”
  • SPORTS:
  • Table Tennis

    • NIGHT CLUB:

  • New York Clubs Offer Roughhouse & Satire

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Blizzard Sweeps Donner Pass
  • LIFE’s Reports
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • LIFE Goes to an Atzor Party
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page ad for Orson Welles in “Citizen Kane” (“It’s Terrific!”)
  • Pan American Coffee Bureau full-page color ad includes illustration b J.C. Leyendecker

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    1941-02-10 Life Magazine Contents February 10 1941

    Nov.30, 2009 in Life

    1941/02/10 — Cover photograph featuring New British Ambassador Lord Halifax is credited to Time, Inc.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Mussolini Takes a Bad Licking in Africa – 7 pages
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • American Bombers Take off for Britain from Newfoundland Base
  • Hearst’s Fabulous Art Goes at Bargain Prices
  • Lana Turner and Deanna Durbin Are Belles of President’s Birthday Ball – 2 pages includes full page shot of Durbin dancing with William Knudsen
  • Bombed London Railway Is Remade as Good as New in Four Hours
  • Socialite Fishermen Relax at Quarterdeck Club on Biscayne Bay
  • Inside Wartime Germany – Part 2 by William L. Shirer

    • CLOSE-UP

  • Lord Halifax by Carl Joachim Friedrich

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • LIFE Shows How to Fire a 75-mm. Field Gun – 8 pages

    • SCIENCE:

  • Earthquakes – Earth’s Crust & Ice Balls Break in Same Pattern

    • ART:

  • Spindletop – Great Texas Oil Gusher is Painted for LIFE by Alexandre Hogue

    • EDUCATION:

  • Ynching Is No. 1 Christian University in China

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • LIFE’s Reports
  • Speaking of Pictures: Book Match Covers
  • LIFE Goes to a Hexing Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

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    1956-12-26 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents December 26 1956

    Nov.19, 2009 in Sporting News

    1956/12/26 –

  • Cover cartoon is “Of Three We Sing” by Amadee featuring Al Lopez up top with new MLB managers Kerby Farrell, Bob Scheffing and Jack Tighe below
  • Headline of issue “Major Leagues Shape ‘Disaster Plan’ – Players’ Pool to Be Set Up by Each Loop – Victim Club Could Choose as Many as Three Men from Every Rival Team”
  • Eddie Robinson to 7th American League team
  • “How Much ‘Stretch’ in Pitcher’s Arm? – Konstanty Holds Record with 74 Games for Phils in ’50″ with Lou Darvas cartoon featuirng Jim Konstanty, Fred Marberry and Hoyt Wilhelm
  • “Jackie Figures He’ll Hit Better Next Year as Every-Day Giant” with small photo of Jackie Robinson
  • “From The Sporting News to Wall Street Journal: Kuenn on Bank Job to Learn About Investing” featuring photos of Harvey Kuenn
  • Hall of Famer George Sisler Named Full-Time Buc Batting Coach
  • Small article with small photo notes Phil Rizzuto to return to Yankees as TV-Radio Announcer
  • Part 2 of 2 — PEE WEE … PRIDE OF FLATBUSH … Dodgers Shortstop Since ’40 and ‘Captain of the Team’” second of 2 part Pee Wee Reese feature
  • Necrology: Obituatry for former N.L. umpire Ziggy Sears
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including several articles covering many other players, usually at least something from each team; winter ball coverage; The separately numbered 8-page “The All-Sports News” section covering football and other sports

    • 26 pages plus 8-page “The All-Sports News” section for 34 pages total.

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    1891-11 Century Magazine Contents November 1891

    Nov.11, 2009 in Century

    1891/11 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Italian Old Masters – Michelangelo Buonarotti by W. J. Stillman
  • Izaak Walton From a Painting by George H. Boughton
  • Southern Womanhood as Affected by the War by Wilbur Fisk Tillett
  • A Great German Artist — Adolf Menzel by Carl Marr
  • Notes by Other American Artists by W. J. Baer and R. Blum
  • The Players by Brander Matthews
  • India by Florence Earle Coates
  • The Naulahka, a Story of East and West — Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier
  • Sursum Corda by Edith M. Thomas
  • What Are Americans Doing in Art? by Francis D. Millet
  • The Hunger-Strike by Elizabeth W. Fiske
  • How Old Folks Won the Oaks by J. J. Eakins
  • Bronte by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • The Autobiography of a Justice of the Peace by Edgar Wilson Nye
  • Mazzini’s Letters to an English Family by Joseph Mazzini
  • In the Pauses of Her Song by Orelia Key Bell
  • A Rival of the Yosemite — King’s River Canon by John Muir
  • A Theft Condoned by Gertrude Smith
  • A Song for All Seasons by James Herbert Morse
  • The Food-Supply of the Future by W. O. Atwater
  • Folksong by Sylvester Baxter
  • James Russell Lowell by George E. Woodberry
  • The Sonnet by Edith Wharton
  • Lowell’s Americanism by Joel Benton with a letter from James Russell Lowell
  • The Major’s Appointment by Julia Schayer
  • The Choice by Owen Innsly
  • Music by A. Lampman
  • San Francisco Vigilance Committees by William T. Coleman

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Editorials on Finance. Michigan’s “Wild-Cat” Banks
  • Lowell’s Legacy to his Country
  • Corrupt Practices Legislation in 1891
  • An American Achievement in Art

    • Open Letters:

  • California’s Interest in Yosemite Reform by George G. Mackenzie
  • The Paris Opera by A. Vianesi
  • The Century Series of Pictures by an American Artist. Izaak Walton by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • George H Boughton by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • A Roman Catholic’s View of “Sister Dolorosa” by L. H.

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Kitty, my Colleen by Patrick J. Coleman
  • The Prophets by C. P. Stetson
  • Brer Fox by Edward A. OIdham
  • Grace After Meat by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Ho for the Desert! by George E. de Steigner
  • My Old Skippers by Charles Henry Webb
  • The New Street-Sweeper by George Towner

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    1883-09 Century Magazine Contents September 1883

    Nov.09, 2009 in Century

    1883/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Robert Burns, from a miniature which belonged to his sister — Engraved by T. Johnson
  • Cape Cod by F. Mitchell
  • A Woman’s Reason — Part 8 by William Dean Howells
  • A Musk-Ox Hunt by Frederick Schwatka
  • The Tragedies of the Nests by John Burroughs
  • Will New York Be the Final World Metropolis? by William C. Conant
  • At Castle Hill, Newport, R.I. by Charles de Kay
  • Indian War in the Colonies by Edward Eggleston
  • Ornamental Forms in Nature by Roger Riordan
  • Professor Agassiz’s Laboratory by Ernest Ingersoll
  • Wonderland by George Edgar Montgomery
  • The Bread-winners — Part 2
  • A Burns Pilgrimage by H.H.

  • Love’s Power by Josephine Pollard
  • Our Story by Frank R. Stockton
  • Death’s First Lesson by Susan Marr Spalding
  • Love in Old Clothes by H.C. Bunner
  • Nights with Uncle Remus — Part 3 by Joel Chandler Harris

    • Topics of the Time

  • The Temperance Outlook
  • The Reticence of American Politicians
  • “College-Bred” Statesmen

    • Open Letters:

  • New York as a Field for Fiction by H.C. Bunner
  • The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union by Frances E. Willard
  • The Massachusetts Experiment in Education by Charles Barnard
  • A Romantic Career by D.C. Gilman
  • The Christian League by Washington Gladden and George K. Dunlop
  • Standard Railway Time by W.F. Allen
  • Reforming the Alfabet by Frederick A. Fernald
  • The Training of Children’s Voices by J. Spencer Curwen

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • In Swimming-Time by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Model Children by Charles H. Turner
  • What’s in a Name? by R.K. Munkittrick
  • A Midsummer Day’s Dream by William M. Briggs
  • A Bundle of Letters by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Massachusetts French by Bell F. Hapgood

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    1885-10 Century Magazine Contents October 1885

    Nov.09, 2009 in Century

    1885/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Samuel Bowles — Engraved by Henry Velten from a photograph
  • The Great River of Alaska — Part 2: Exploring the Upper and Lower Yukon by Frederick Schwatka
  • A Study in Independent Journalism by George S. Merriam
  • A Poet’s Soliloquy by Christopher P. Cranch
  • “Love at First Sight” by Brander Matthews
  • The Summer Haunts of American Artists by Lizzie W. Champney
  • The Gray Gull’s Wing by Mary Allen
  • The Bostonians — Part 9 by Henry James
  • The Canada Pacific Railway by George M. Grant
  • Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells
  • March in Janiveer by H. C. Bunner
  • Riverside Park by William A. Stiles
  • The Last Days of General Grant by General Adam Badeau — Just over 20 pages with illustrations
  • Lincoln and Grant by Gen. Horace Porter
  • Reminiscences of General Grant by Gen. James Harrison Wilson
  • The Dead Comrade by Richard Watson Gilder
  • “Taps.” August 8, 1885 by F. M. Newton
  • Bigotry by Edgar Fawcett
  • Zweibak: Being Notes of a Professional Exile

    • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • A “Famous Saying” Contradicted by Gen. D. C. Buell
  • General Heintzelman in the Peninsula Campaign by Mary L. Heintzelman
  • National Memorials of the Civil War by Charles W. Eldridge
  • General Grant’s Premonition by M. E. Seawell

    • Topics of the Time:

  • North and South
  • Prejudice and Progress
  • Civic Rivers

    • Open Letters:

  • The Connecticut Training School for Nurses
  • In the Chilcat Country by Mrs. Eugene S. Willard
  • Police Reform by L. Edwin Dudley
  • “Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat”

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Accepted by Robertson Trowbridge
  • Madrigal by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • The Wood-Sprite by Roger Riordan
  • Compensations by J. A. Macon
  • Hobson’s Choice by Francis E. Leupp
  • My Rival by Bessie Chandler
  • The Race by Charles G. Blanden

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    1885-12 Century Magazine Contents December 1885

    Nov.09, 2009 in Century

    1885/12 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Helen Jackson (H.H.) – Engraved by Miss C.A. Powell, from a photograph
  • The City of Persia — Part 1: Teheran by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • Saint Elizabeth by T. T. Munger
  • A Child of the Age by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
  • The Interpreter by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Private History of a Campaign that Failed by Mark Twain
  • Eve by W. J. Henderson
  • The Bostonians by Henry James
  • The Solitary Knight by James T. McKay
  • An American Lordship by George Parsons Lathrop
  • The Poet by Ina D. Coolbrith
  • John Bodewin’s Testimony — Part 2 by Mary Hallock Foote
  • The “Lamia” of Keats by Henry Eckford
  • The Last Poems of Helen Jackson (H. H.) — Habeas Corpus; Acquainted with Grief; Fealty; The Poet’s Forge; Vision; Vanity of Vanities; A Last Prayer; by Helen Jackson
  • The Lesson of Greek Art by Charles Waldstein
  • Bird-Enemies by John Burroughs
  • Faith-Cures by A. F. Schauffler
  • The Haunted Heart by Minna Irving
  • The Monitors: Their Construction and Work by Capt. John Ericsson
  • The Loss of the Monitor. By a Survivor by Francis B. Butts
  • Dangers in Food and Drink by Elwyn Waller
  • At Mrs. Berty’s “Tea” by Thomas A. Janvier

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Transfigured Mercantilism
  • The Sunday-School and Good Literature

    • Open Letters:

  • What Shall Be Done With Our Ex-Presidents? — Opinions by George F. Edmunds – Thomas Cooley – Francis Wharton – Allen G. Bigelow
  • The Poetic Outlook by Washington Gladden
  • Wanted – A Universal Tinker by X. Y. Z.

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • The Sultan of My Books by Edmund Gosse
  • De Libris by Cosmo Monkhouse
  • On the Fly-Leaf of a Book of Old Plays by Walter Learned

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    1886-05 Century Magazine Contents May 1886

    Nov.09, 2009 in Century

    1886/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne – Engraved by T. Johnson after a daguerreotype taken about 1848
  • Recent Architecture in America — Part 1 by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • The Minister’s Charge — Part 4 by William Dean Howells
  • The Flour Mills of Minneapolis by Eugene V. Smalley
  • To the Memory of H. H. by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Iduna by George A. Hibbard
  • A Betrothal by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • A Californian’s Gift to Science: Lick Observatory by Taliesin Evans
  • Control by Sidney Lanier
  • To Will H. Low — A Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson – A half page
  • Perturbed Spirits by Brander Matthews
  • Reunion (Regimental Officers, 1885) by David L. Proudfit
  • Hawthorne’s Philosophy by Julian Hawthorne
  • The Breeding of Fancy Pigeons by E. S. Starr
  • Evolution and the Faith by T. T. Munger
  • Zweibak; or, Notes of a Professional Exile — Part 3
  • Two Views of It by Anthony Morehead
  • The Helmet of Mambrino by Clarence King

    • From the Peninsula to Antietam

  • Posthumous Notes by Gen. George B. McClellan — 9 pages including illustrations
  • With an Introduction by Literary Executor by William C. Prime
  • Recollections of a Private — Part 7: McClellan at the Head of the Grand Army by Warren Lee Goss
  • The Battle of South Mountain or Boonsboro by Gen. D. H. Hill

    • Memoranda on the Civil War

  • In Reply to General Grant by Gen. William Farrar Smith

    • Topics of the Time

  • George Bancroft on the Legal-Tender Decision
  • Copyright
  • James Russell Lowell’s Bible Argument
  • The American Opera Company
  • A Readjustment of the Industrial Order
  • Labor Question

    • Open Letters

  • The True South vs the Silent South by John W. Johnston
  • The True South vs the Silent South by George W. Cable
  • On the South Kensington School for Cookery by Mary B. Welch

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • An Easter Lay by David Rorty
  • Spring by Bessie Chandler
  • Time and Love by Harold van Santvoord

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    1888-06 Century Magazine Contents June 1888

    Nov.09, 2009 in Century

    1888/06 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Plains and Prisons of Western Siberia by George Kennan
  • Infinite Depths by Charles Edwin Markham
  • Matthew Arnold’s Criticism by John Burroughs
  • Selina’s Singular Marriage by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • A Cry by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • The Ranchman’s Rifle on Crag and Prairie by Theodore Roosevelt with illustrations by Frederic Remington
  • Unshed Tears by Julian Hawthorne
  • The Liar — Part 2 of 2 by Henry James
  • The Golden Prime by Frances Louisa Bushnell
  • How the Mohawks Set Out for Medoctec by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • A Printer’s Paradise – The Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp by Theodore L. De Vinne
  • The Philosophy of Courage by General Horace Porter
  • Bird Music. The Oriole and the Thrush by Simeon Pease Cheney
  • “Since Cleopatra Died” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • What We Should Eat by Professor W. O. Atwater
  • The Graysons — A Story of Illinois by Edward Eggleston
  • The King’s Seat by Mrs. Annie Fields
  • Richard Malcolm Johnston by Sophie Bledsoe Herrick
  • Love Asleep by Philip Bourke Marston
  • Abraham Lincoln — A History. The Advance – Bull Run, Fremont. Military Emancipation by J. G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • By Telephone by Brander Matthews
  • Kansas Bird Songs by Amanda T. Jones

    • Topics of the Time

  • Reform in Our Legislative Methods
  • The American Flag for America
  • Art Revival in American Coinage

    • Open Letters:

  • Mr. Arnold and American Art by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • “The Workingman’s School and Free Kindergarten”
  • A Democratic Government in the Colleges by Charles F. Thwing
  • An Attempted Division of California by Leon F. Moss

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Ole Settlers’ Meetun by Richard Lew Dawson
  • To John Burroughs by F. Blanchard
  • June 21st by George Birdseye
  • A Lost Opportunity by G. Courtenay Walker
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek

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    1945-03-03 Colliers Magazine Contents March 3 1945

    Oct.26, 2009 in Colliers

    1945/03/03 — Cover illustrated by Lawson Wood

    Contents as follows:
    FICTION:

  • “Like a Petal” by Sallie Belle Cox and illustrated by Hal Stone
  • “The Story of Jenny Wingate” — Part 3 of 4 — by Zenith Brown and illustrated by Walter Klett
  • “Photo Finish” by Harrison Gallagher and illustrated by John Holmgren
  • “City Dog” by Robert Sylvester and illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers
  • “Search and Rescue” by Walt Grove and illustrated by John Pike
  • “Small Boy” — The Short Short Story by Eleanor Shoemaker with color illustration by C.C. Beall

    • ARTICLES

  • We Lived to Tell by Captains Gene Dale, John Morrett, Bert Schwarz
  • The President’s Health by George Creel
  • Ever See a Scent? by Amy Porter
  • Berlin: City of Fear by George Ladvar and illustrated by William Pachner
  • Freedom Wins Its Wings by Frederick R. Neely
  • The Challenge to Education by Alfred E. Kuenzli
  • The Undefeated by Martha Gellhorn and illustrated by William Pachner
  • The Wehrmacht’s Yankee Girl Friend by Josef Israels II
  • You’d Better Like Fish by Murdock Pemberton

    • PLUS:

  • “Keep Up With the World” by Freling Foster
  • Wing Talk by Frederick R. Neely
  • The Heroes: A Gallery of United Nations Portraits – No. 19 – Dobbie of Malta by George Creel
  • Your Life Tomorrow by David O. Woodbury
  • The Week’s Work by Amy Porter
  • Editorials: Tip to Labor: Take It Easy – Wanted: Wacs for Hospitals – Americans Are Like This
  • Full page black and white ad for Murder, My Sweet with Dick Powell and Claire Trevor
  • Half page, 3 frame Pepsi ad by O.Soglow features “Alfonse the Glass Blower”

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    1997-01-02 Films in Review Magazine Contents January-February 1997

    Oct.23, 2009 in Films in Review

    1997/01-02 -

    FEATURES:

  • JOhn Cassavetes by Vincent LoBrutto
  • Candace and Juli by Candace Coreli, Juli Berg and Patrick InZetta
  • Kenneth Anger
  • John Sayles by Dylan Skolnick
  • MIke Leigh by Mirra Bank
  • Buddy G. by John Esposito
  • Michael Almereyda by Milon Robbins
  • 1996 NBR Award Winners
  • Mary Pickford by John C. Tibbetts

    • INTERMISSION:

  • Farewell compiled by Billy Doyle

  • Remembering William Wellman compiled by John Gallagher
  • The Independent Film Festival by Dylan Skolnick
  • FIR Chats With Michael Winterbottom
  • Industrial Light and Magic, Into the Digital Realm, a book review by Chris Chirarella
  • Eastwood After Hours: A Night of Jazz by Roberta Burrows

    • FILM REVIEWS:

  • American Buffalo by Andy Pawelczak
  • Bound by Harry Pearson, Jr.
  • Breaking the Waves by Julietta Lopez-Aranda
  • Crash by Julien LaPointe
  • The English Patient by Eva H. Kissen
  • Jude – A Very Brady Sequel by Rocco Simonelli
  • Mars Attacks! by Scott Michael Bosco
  • Michael by Victoria Alexander
  • Paradise Lost by Barbara Cramer
  • Portrait of a Lady by Andy Pawelczak
  • Shine by Victoria Alexander
  • Secret Agent by Edmund Eugene
  • Special Effects by Chris Chiarella
  • Trainspotting by Victoria Alexander
  • Trees Lounge by Olga Gardner
  • Unhook the Stars by Vincent LoBrutto
  • The Whole Wide World by Kenneth Geist
  • Jerry Maguire by Rocco Simonelli

    • COLUMNS:

  • Montreal’s 20th Annual World Film Festival by Kenneth Geist
  • Laserphile
  • Emerging Technologies by Al Griffin
  • Videosyncrasy by Alan G. Barbour
  • Book Reviews – John Nangle, David Morrell
  • The Soundtrack by Jack Smith

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • The Good, The Bad and The Passable
  • The National Board of Review
  • The Chosen Few
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Classifieds

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    1948-02-11 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    Oct.15, 2009 in Sporting News

    1948/02/11 –

  • Cover cartoon is “Getting the Pennant Diagnosis” by Willard Mullin
  • Headline on front cover is “N.L. Opposes Amnesty for Jumpers – Loop Balks at Mexican Peace Plan”
  • Also on cover is brief article under the cartoon “‘Negro Ball Needs Housecleaning’ — Jackie” with Jackie Robinson ‘s opinions
  • Half page summary of Detroit Tigers with roster
  • 3 full pages covering the death of Herb Pennock
  • Full page feature on Lou Brissie
  • Full page with Neal Ball reminiscing on the first American League unassisted triple play in 1909
  • Just under a half page about Ted Williams at the birth of his new daugher
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including box scores, standings, statistics, minor league coverage, plus the 8 page All-Sports section which covers boxing, football, hockey and other sports.
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of Valli

    • 28 pages plus 8 page All-Sports News Supplement for 36 pages total.

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    1948-Summer Theatre Arts Magazine Contents

    Oct.14, 2009 in Theatre Arts

    1948/06-07 – Cover: Henry Fonda as Mister Roberts by Richard Avendon

    CONTENTS

  • Inside “Inside U.S.A.” by Charles McArthur
  • The Broadway Story by Gilbrt W. Gabriel
  • Mencken on the Idiom of the Ham by H.L. Mencken
  • Recommended .. A Divorce by Rouben Mamoulian
  • Footlights in Korea by Larry Dabrow and Marion Locks
  • Report from Hollywood by David Greggory
  • Don Quixote at the Play by Gloria Kingsley
  • Fall River Legend by Louis Bromfield
  • Shakedown Cruise of Mister Roberts by A Stowaway
  • I Can Be Had by Norman Corwin
  • The Crystal Chandelier by Mary Helen Fay
  • What Have You Done to Our Child?

  • Tryout in New Haven by Walter Prichard Eaton
  • Spectacles du Palais by Walter P. Bowman
  • Films from Abroad
  • The Joke’s On Me by Irving Hoffman

    • Theatre: USA Special Tributary Section:

  • Across the Land
  • North and South
  • East and West
  • Yours for a Better Life by Morris Carnovsky
  • Happy as Amherst
  • Flexible Theatre by Norman Bel Geddes
  • Welcome Back, Mr. Bel Geddes by Howard Lindsay
  • Magna Cum Laude
  • The City Presents
  • The Brighter Side by Bill Butler
  • Tributary Theatre Design by George Amberg
  • Second Act – Utah by Blanche Yurka
  • Theatre in the Sun
  • Round and Round
  • Accent on Youth
  • Dramatic Workshop – Broadway Incubator
  • A Note on Command Decision by William Wister Haines
  • Command Decision – A Full Length Play – by William Wister Haines
  • Record Review by Paul Moor
  • Theatre Arts Bookshelf
  • American Plays Abroad – A picture quiz
  • Current Theatre Index
  • The Passing Show
  • Summer Theatres
  • Letters to the Editor

    • ILLUSTRATIONS:

  • Valerie Bettis as Tiger Lily, Inside USA by Thomas Yee
  • Meg Mundy and Wendell Homes, The Respectful Prostitute by Richard Lindner
  • Faye Emerson, The Plays the Thing by Martin Munckacsi
  • Bea Lillie going places, Inside USA by Richard Avedon
  • Sono Osato as Cocaine Lil, Willie the Weeper by Erwin Blumenfeld
  • Norman Corwin by Richard Erdoes
  • Dr. Kinsey at the Play by Al Hirschfeld
  • Design for a Flexible Theatre by Norman Bel Geddes

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    1956-02-11 Saturday Review Magazine Contents

    Oct.14, 2009 in Saturday Review

    1956/02/11 —
    Front cover features Artur Rubinstein

    Contents as follows:

    IDEAS

  • Mr. Lincoln Visits Richmond by Richard Hanser
  • Mencken 1880-1956 by Gerald W. Johnson
  • The Poverty of Imitation: An Editorial
  • Rubinstein, Music and Piano Playing by Irving Kolodin
  • Rousseau: Totalitarian? by J. Salwyn Schapiro

    • BOOKS:

  • The Capri Letters by Mario Soldati – Reviewed by Harrison Smith
  • The Frozen Jungle by Lawrence Earl – Reviewed by Walter Havighurst
  • The Strong Hand by Michael Blankfort – Reviewed by Nathan Rothman
  • A Forest of Tigers by Robert Shaplen – Reviewed by J.G. Hitrec
  • China: New Age and New Outlook by Pin-Chia Kuo – Reviewed by Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • The Rebuilding of Italy by Muriel Grindrod – Reviewed by Michael T. Florinsky
  • The Five-Dollar Goldpiece by Orville Prescott – Reviewed by Robert Halsband
  • Mrs. Fiske and the American Theatre by Archie Binns — Reviewed by Alan S. Downer
  • Dreaming of a White Bonnet — Reviews by Helen McCully

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Trade Winds by Bennett Cerf
  • Literary I.Q.
  • Literary Crypt
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Broadway Postscript by Henry Hewes
  • SR Goes to the Movies by Hollis Alpert
  • Booked for Travel by Horace Sutton
  • Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin
  • Kinsley Double-Crostic No. 1142

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    1956-01-07 Saturday Review Magazine Contents

    Oct.14, 2009 in Saturday Review

    1956/01/07 —
    Front cover features “Grand World-Trip Prizewinner, Taken by Henrik Krogius in Allahabad, India

    Contents as follows:

    WORLD TRAVEL ISSUE

  • The Mobile Americans by Horace Sutton
  • Prizewinners’ Photographic Gallery
  • Bringing Up Father Abroad by Robert Buckner
  • Judging the Photo Contest by Ivan Dmitri
  • Seeing America Second by Maynard O. Williams
  • Cyprus by E.S. MacDonald
  • Photo Prizewinners

    • IDEAS:

  • New Vistas for the Historian by Arnold Toynbee
  • Who Is Santayana? by Charles Frankel
  • Fortunate Diversity: An Editorial

    • BOOKS:

  • Jonathan Swift by John Middleton Murray – Reviewed by John M. Bullitt
  • George Moore by Malcolm Brown – Reviewed by Leon Edel
  • Island in the Sun by Alec Waugh – Reviewed by James Kelly
  • Winter’s Tales I complied by the editors of Macmillan & Company – Reviewed by Harvey Curtis Webster
  • Second Ending by Evan Hunter – Reviewed by Whitney Balliett
  • Ambassador Extraordinary by Alden Hatch – Reviewed by Allen Churchill
  • The Grand Mademoiselle by Francis Steegmuller – Reviewed by Helen Beal Woodward
  • The Trail of the Dinosaur by Arthur Koestler – Reviewed by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Trade Winds by Bennett Cerf
  • Letters to the Editor
  • SR Goes to the Movies by Hollis Alpert – “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” featuring Susan Hayward
  • TV and Radio by Robert Lewis Shayon
  • Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin
  • Literary I.Q.
  • Literary Crypt
  • Kinsley Double-Crostic No. 1137

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    1980-03 Films in Review Magazine Contents

    Oct.10, 2009 in Films in Review

    1980/03 -

  • Cover: Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton in “American Gigolo”

    • FEATURE ARTICLES:

  • Silent Stars Speak by Anthony Slide – Appears to be a round table with William Bakewell, Priscilla Bonner, Jetta Goudal, Carmel Myers, Esther Ralston, and Lois Wilson
  • Martin Brest Interview by Rob Edelman
  • Mona Maris by Anfonso Pinto

    • FILMS IN REVIEW:

  • Being There by Rob Edelman
  • Our Hitler by Jeffrey Wells
  • American Gigolo by Rob Edelman
  • Coup de Tete by Robert L. Liebman
  • Hero at Large by Jack Curry
  • The Human Factor by Peter Mascuch
  • A Simple Story by Charles Reilly
  • The Fog by Jeffrey Wells
  • Angi Vera by Edwin Kephart

    • MONTHLY COLUMNS:

  • Rediscovery – Blues in the Night by William K Everson
  • The Sound Track – Star Trek by Page Cook
  • Films on 8 & 16 by Anthony Slide
  • The Television Scene by Alvin H. Marill
  • The Weinberg Touch by Herman Weinberg
  • Book Reviews
  • Letters
  • Classifieds
  • Films in Release

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    1981-12 Films in Review Magazine Contents

    Oct.10, 2009 in Films in Review

    1981/12 -

  • Cover: Pat O’Brien and Betty Compson in “Destination Unknown”

    • ARTICLES:

  • The 19th New York Film Festival by Charles Phillips Reilly
  • Robert Donat by DeWitt Bodeen
  • Tay Garnett – An American Original by John Gallagher

    • Directors Series:

  • Walter Hill by Pat Broeske
  • John Badham by Edwin Kephart
  • Christopher Miles by Mildred Taffell

    • FILMS IN REVIEW:

  • Quartet by Pat Anderson
  • Beau Pere by James Sullivan
  • Rich and Famous by Dean Billanti
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman by Tim Purtell
  • The Boat is Full by Gary Cowan
  • Mommie Dearest by Tim Purtell
  • Halloween II by John Paul Ward

    • MONTHLY COLUMNS:

  • The Sound Track by Page Cook
  • The Collecting Scene by Anthony Slide
  • The Weinberg Touch by Herman Weinberg
  • The Television Scene – The Bible on TV II – by Alvin H. Marill
  • Book Reviews
  • Classified Ads
  • Films in Release

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