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1931-10 American Magazine Contents

1931/10 — Cover design by Hayden Hayden.

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

  • “Owen D. Young” by Ida M. Tarbell with sketch portrait by Joseph Cummings Chase
  • “What Is Your Wife Worth To You?” by Jerome Beatty
  • “Why I Shall Send My Son to An American College” by Emil Ludwig with drawings by Norman Reeves
  • “Hitting Fifty” by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • “Miracles Do Happen” says Lily Pons by Rose Heylbut
  • “Where to Find a Fortune” by E. Alexander Powell and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “What No Man Can Take From Me” part 2 Adventures in Solitude by David Grayson and illustrated by Joseph Chenoweth
  • “Raymond M. Hood — Showman of Steel and Stone” by J.B. Griswold and illustrated by Will Hollingsworth
  • “If You Were a Football Star” by Edwin B. Dooley
  • “It All Comes Out on Moving Day” by Martin H. Kennelly and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • “The Man Who Gets the Honey Doesn’t Fight With the Bees” by Bruce Barton and illustrated by M.B. Aleshire
  • “You Don’t Need a Big Place to Grow a Big Heart” by Neil M. Clark

    • FICTION:

  • “The Smile That Wins” by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Roy F. Spreter
  • “White-Hot” by Frank Knox Hockman and illustrated by J.W. Schlaikjer
  • “Aunt Emma and the Devil’s Ditch” by Ellis Parker Butler and illustrated by Floyd M. Davis
  • “A Gentleman for a Night” by Octavus Roy Cohen and illustrated by T.D. Skidmore
  • “Too Many Parties!” by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by John H. Crosman
  • “West of the Pecos” a Novel Part 3 by Zane Grey and illustrated by Frank Hoffman
  • “Bill John Goes to Jail” by Helen Topping Miller and illustrated by Joseph M. Clement
  • “High Summer” A Novel – Last Installment by Booth Tarkington and illustrated by Wallace Morgan

    • SHORT FEATURES:
    Interesting People:

  • Edson Brewster by George Oslin
  • P.G. Wodehouse by Lenora Wodehouse
  • Carlyle R. Robinson by Arthur C. Bartlett
  • Francis Ingalls by Doris Montague
  • Mrs. Edith Mae Pennington by Louis Lacoss
  • R.B. Bilkosky by Warren B. King
  • Index to Our Advertisers
  • Our First Reader by Bruce Barton

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Firestone, “Let Davy Jones Chase Sinker Soaps” color ad from Ivory, Camay, bright red Campbell’s Tomato Soup ad, Pauline Frederick for Lux Soaps photographed by Ray Huff, “Smoke a Fresh Cigarette” from Camel, Dutch Boy, Granger Tobacco with color illustration by Rico Tomaso, Ford Motor Company, Fred and Adele Astaire for Chesterfield Cigarettes on the inside back cover, Orange Life Savers on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))