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1931-12 American Magazine Contents

1931/12 — Cover design by C.E. Chambers.

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

  • “If We Had the Dole” by John J. Leary, Jr. with drawing by Irwin Smith
  • “Walter C. Teagle — Giant of Oil” by Jerome Beatty
  • “The Fastest Start Doesn’t Always Win” by Kaye Don and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “A Brother and Sister Who Never Quarrel” by John Janney is about Fred and Adele Astaire with a full-page color photograph of them
  • “They Never Tell–All” by John N. Wheeler
  • “We Fell Out Over Fifty Cents” by Carl Goerch
  • “Lyle Stephenson Reads Poetry For Breakfast” by Hubert Kelley
  • “You Can’t Tame a Rat With a Club” by Lewis E. Lawes
  • “Out of a Job” by Bruce Barton
  • “Making Curiosity Pay Dividends” by J.B. Griswold
  • “Wearing Burbank’s Shoes” by Edward Bernard Garnett
  • “Edison — The Greatest American of the Century” by Emil Ludwig

    • FICTION:

  • “Old Man Christmas” by Leona Dalrymple and illustrated by Marshall Frantz
  • “Fightin’ Mad” by James Stevens and illustrated by Philip Lyford
  • “White Stallion” by Emma-Lindsay Squier with illustration by J.W. Schlaikjer; Painting by Frank Hoffman
  • “Rich Man’s Town” — A Novel — Part II — by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by H.R. Ballinger
  • “The Missing Mystery” by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Roy F. Spreter
  • “Pliny Wins a Medal” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • “One Chance in a Million” by Will Payne and illustrated by Rico Tomaso
  • “West of the Pecos” — A Novel — Part V — by Zane Grey and illustrated by Frank Hoffman

    • SHORT FEATURES:
    Interesting People:

  • Isaac Davis article by Leonard Faulkner
  • Mrs. Mary Breckingridge article by Helen Worden
  • P.H. Peyran article by Mrs. S.M. Le Crone
  • Joan Wing article by D. Jay Culver
  • J.S. Rex Cole article by Myrtle Gebhart
  • Prize Contest Announcement: Did You Ever Fight Over a Dime?
  • Prize Winners, September Contest: What’s Going On In Your Town?
  • Index to Our Advertisers
  • Our First Reader by Bruce Barton

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Camel Cigarettes, Camay, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ad illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg, Life Savers Cough Drops, Hoover, and a Lucky Strike Cigarettes ad featuring Jean Harlow on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))