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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 (*))