1931-04 American Magazine Contents

1931/04 — Cover design by John LaGatta.

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

Winged Terror by Bruce Gould is about Anthony Fokker with portrait by John Rogers and drawing by Clayton Knight

Are You a Safe Driver? by Robbins B. Stoeckel and illustrated by Frank Dobias

What the Man in the Street Has Taught Me by Heywood Broun and illustrated by George Clisbee

He Started at the End of His Rope by Mary B. Mullett and illustrated by Carl V. Burger is about concert pianist and noted author on game birds, Otto G. Beyer

“I’m Getting to Know My Son” by Keene Sumner

How to Move Ahead While Standing Still by James Layfield

We’re Ninety-Nine Percent Honest by James R. Crowell

But They Do Come Back by W.O. McGeehan

A Job You Wouldn’t Want by G.K. Chesterton is about The Prince of Wales and illustrated by B.J. Rosenmeyer

“Where Do I Get Off?” by Merle Crowell

The House of a Thousand Servants by Claude H. Miller with drawing by Byron Musser

Take a Tip from the Waiter by Fritz Nocker and illustrated by Arthur Edrop

FICTION:

“If I Were You” — A Novel — Part I — by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Frederick Chapman

“Dangerous as a Dagger” — Another “Emmy” Story — by Patterson Dial and illustrated by John H. Crosman

“Sea Worthy” by Frank Wead and illustrated by W.J. Aylward

“War Paint and Rouge” — A Novel — Part III — by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Norman Price

“Shoestring” — A Novel — Part V — by Berton Braley and illustrated by Herbert Paus

“A Guttersnipe Grows Wings” by Robert E. Pinkerton and illustrate by J.W. Schlaikjer

“A Chance to Be Somebody” by Louis F. McCabe and illustrated by Charles R. Chickering

“Hollyhock Lane” by Margaret Craven and illustrated by John H.Crosman

SHORT FEATURES:
Interesting People:

Clifford Laibly and Laman C. Johnson by Neil M. Clark

Cliff Self by Ruth Moore Morriss

Chief Cuviboranandi, alias A. Hyatt Verrilt by George Allan England

Prize Winners — January Contest — “Pulling Out”

Our First Reader by Bruce Barton

Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: “Swing Along” ad for Camel Cigarettes, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ad is illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg, Hugh Trevor for Lux Toilet Soap*, Hoover Vaccuum Clener ad illustrated by Arthur William Brown, beautiful color ad for the new Ford Victoria, Chesterfield Cigarettes ad illustrated in color by J. Knowles Hare, Babe Ruth in a 2/3 page ad for Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States*, and a Wheaties ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))