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1934-11 American Magazine Contents

1934/11 — Cover is a photograph by Paul Hesse.

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:
MYSTERY NOVEL:
Complete in this issue

  • “Point of Death” by Rex Stout and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

    • FICTION:

  • “A Tank-Town Drama – A Tink Story by Howard Brubaker and illlustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • “Divided We Fall” by Corey Ford and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Beauty’s Daughter” – Part II – by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “I Don’t Go Out With Sailors” by Ruth Burr Sanborn and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • “Hold That Note” by Matt Taylor and illustrated by Wallace Morgan
  • “The Acacia Tree” by Margaret Carpenter and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “The Girl Had Nerve” by Richard Thruelsen and illustrated by Frederick Chapman
  • “Same as Act One” by Katharine Newlin Burt and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Closed Room” – Part IV – by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan and George Howe
  • “Three Were Left” by Borden Chase and illustrated by Frank B. Hoffman
  • “Tigress in Gingham” by Virginia Paxton and illustrated by Walter Klett

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Who’s On the Payroll” by James A. Farley
  • “Fellow Citizens, I Love You” is a poem by Ogden Nash with drawings by Rea Irvin
  • “Months After Sundown” by Charles J.V. Murray and illustrated by Charles Kaiser
  • “The Corn Planting” by Sherwood Anderson
  • “Everybody Wants to Be An Actor” by William Corbin
  • “Hero Poison” by Paul Gallico
  • “The Next Step in the New Deal” by Walter Lippmann
  • “Medicine Man” by John W. Vandercook is about Dr. Sylvester M. Lambert
  • “Shine ’em Up!” by Roger B. Whitman

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial–Progress by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
  • Fast Ones by W.E. Farbstein
  • Speaking of Men–and of Women by Eleanor Early
  • What the Readers Say

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Fogbreaker — Henry G. Houghton, Jr.
  • Homemaker — Milborn L. Wilson
  • Champs — Marion Lloyd and Dorothy Locke
  • Angler — Helen Jepson
  • Highbrow — Isabel Ebel
  • Scattergood — Thomas J. Neary
  • String-puller — Sue Hastings
  • Ruralist — Sherwood Anderson

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Heinz Tomato Ketchup on the inside front cover, Ripley Believe it or Not cartoon for Parker Pens, Prudential, Ivory Flakes, Campbell’s Soups, Camel Cigarettes, and a Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))