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1934-05 American Magazine Contents

1934/05 — Cover design by Roy Spreter.

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

  • “Youth” by Christian Gauss
  • “Babes in the Woods” by Beverly Smith and illustrated by Rico Tomaso
  • “American Adventures” by Konrad Bercovici
  • “A Prayer for All Mothers” by Lloyd C. Douglas
  • “The Making of a Movie Star” by Margaret Sullavan
  • “Up and Down” by J. Robley Tucker
  • “Fishes Like Neckties” by Louis H. Cook with color illustration spanning two pages by Norman Rockwell
  • “Out of the Fog” by Thomas F. Woodlock with drawing by George Howe
  • “Closing in on the Kidnappers” by Courney Ryley Cooper and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Always Gloom at the Top” by Paul Gallico

    • FICTION:

  • “The Strangled Witness” by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Harry L. Timmins
  • “Person to Person” by Stanley Paul and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • “Merchant Princess” — Part II — by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by August Blesser, Jr.
  • “Cape Horn Diploma” by Peter B. Kyne and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Outside World” by Robert Carse and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “The Hunt” by Agnes Sligh Turnbull and illustrated by Arthur Palmer
  • “A Piece of String” is a Scattergood Baines story by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Robert C. Gellert
  • “The Chipmunk Kid” by Matt Taylor and illustrated by Harry Beckhoff
  • “Synthetic Gentleman” — Part IV — by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Jules Gotlieb
  • “Faith” by Sigman Byrd and illustrated by Norman Price

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Dynamo — Harry L. Hopkins
  • Kingmaker — Otto Soglow
  • “Excelsior!” — Georgia Engelhard
  • Trainer — John Benson
  • Leader — Milo Reno
  • Flash — Dr. Harold E. Edgerton and Kenneth J. Germeshausen
  • Politician — Josephine Sterling
  • Publishers — William and Charles Marsh
  • Maid-to-Order — Margaret Sullavan

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Fast Ones by Henry Wysham Lanier
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Your Son’s the Better Man by J.B. Griswold
  • Oswald K. Blemish, M.M. by H.T. Webster
  • What the Readers Say
  • Index to Advertisers

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Pabst Blue Ribbon with color illustration, Ivory Soap, Camel Cigarettes featuring Big Bill Tilden, Chevrolet for 1934, Mae West for Lux Toilet Soap, Keds*, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))