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1931-03 American Magazine Contents

1931/03 — Cover design by John E. Sheridan.

Complete contents from the contents page is as follows:
ARTICLES:

  • “Back in Ward Four” by Bruce Barton
  • “How We Behave Away From Home” by Margaret A. Barnes with cartoons by George Clishee
  • “We’re Going to Stay Married” by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Frank Bensing
  • “Can You Turn Your Back on Your Mistakes?” illustrated by Herbert Roese
  • “What’s the Good Word” by Henry Morton Robinson and illustrated by Charles R. Chickering
  • “How to Widen Your World” by Will Durant and illustrated by Edward L. Chase
  • “What Your Banker Knows About You” by James R. Crowell and illustrated by Winold Reiss
  • “Smart Folks Are Easy to Fool” by Philip Kerby
  • “When It Comes to Neighbors” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg
  • “The Only Unpaid Movie Star” by Harry Carr is about Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney with photos and drawings but the top right corner of one of the pages torn off
  • “Spunk Never Cost a Man a Job Worth Having” by Neil M. Clark
  • “You Don’t Have to Be Rich to Live in a Mansion” by Jerome Beatty
  • “All Dressed Up” by Mildred Harrington
  • “Are You Committing Suicide on the Installment Plan?” by William S. Sadler, MD

    • FICTION:

  • “Take it to Tink” by Howard Brubaker and illustrated by J.G. Gannam
  • “War Paint and Rouge” a novel part 2 by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Norman Price
  • “His Folks” by Katharine Haviland-Taylor and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Happy Birthday!” by Gerald Mygatt and illustrated by C.D. Williams
  • “Shoestring” a novel part 4 by Berton Braley and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • “Dot Finds a Man for Polly” by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by John LaGatta
  • “Man Overboard” by Murney Mintzner and illustrated by J.W. Schlaikjer
  • “Control” by Frank Wead and illustrated by Oscar F. Schmidt

    • SHORT FEATURES:
    Interesting People:

  • Frank C. Reilly by Leonard Falkner
  • Frank Carretta by Edwin W. Teale
  • Walter J. Colpus by James Montagnes
  • Prize Contest Announcement — How the American Magazine Helped Me
  • Here’s the Truth About Those Pullman Car Names by William S. Dutton
  • When Animals Escape by Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • Our First Reader by Bruce Barton

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Whitman’s Sampler ad illustrated by Peter Hurd, Ivory Soap, Campbell’s Soup, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company with illustration by James Montgomery Flagg, William Powell for Lux Toilet Soap, Chesterfield Cigarettes, Florenz Ziegfeld for Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil*, and a Camay ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))