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1932-12 American Magazine Contents

1932/12 — Cover design by John E. Sheridan.

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

  • “Can You Get a Square Deal in a Traffic Court?” by R.L. Burgess with drawing by Edmund F. Ward
  • “The Thing We Need Today” by General John J. Pershing
  • “Good for the Heart” by Don Marquis with drawings by Herbert Paus and Diana Thorne
  • “I’m Looking for Men Like These” as told to Arthur H. Little
  • “This Bridge Business Has Gone Too Far!” by Ely Culbertson with cartoons by H.T. Webster
  • “He Dug Deep to Reach the Top” — The story of Robert Ridgway — by Beverly Smith
  • “A Grandmother Talks About Picking Toys” by Jane Allen Franklin with Mildred Harrington
  • “Axes and Fiddlesticks” by Karl Detzer
  • “Glasses Aren’t So Bad” by Peggy Wood
  • “How People Act in Restaurants” by Jerome Beatty

    • FICTION:

  • “Havana Stop-Over” by Margaret Widdemer and illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman
  • “Dusty Has His Christmas” by Leona Dalrymple and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • “Walls of Gold” — A Novel — Part III — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Red Fingernails” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • “Guardians of the Desert” — A Novel — Part IV — by Tom Gill and illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman
  • “The Buck-Up” by Richard Connell and illustrated by Joseph Chenoweth
  • “A Cagey Gorilla” by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Roy F. Spreter

    • SHORT FEATURES:
    Interesting People:

  • Frank T. Courtney — Article by Beverly Smith
  • Captain R.M. Wassen article by R.L. Burgess
  • Mrs. Genevieve Berkeley article by Fred Hawkins
  • Mrs. Ann C. Willis article by Nancy Woods Walburn
  • John Henry Nash article by Henry F. Pringle
  • Richard B. Russell Jr. article by Magner White
  • Dr. Harry M. Archer article by Ruth Moore Morriss
  • Prize Contest Announcement: “My Experiences With Traffic Laws”
  • The Family Problem — I Let My Husband Run the House
  • Prize Winners of September Contest: “How to Make Money”
  • Index to Our Advertisers
  • In the Night by Bruce Barton

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Ivory Soap, Eastman’s Christmas Shopping Guide ad from Eastman Kodak, Remington Typewriters, and a Lucky Strike Cigarettes ad on the back cover featuring “Custer’s Last Stand” as portrayed by N.C. Wyeth. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))