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1936-02 American Magazine Contents

1936/02 — Cover: Natural color photograph directed by Ray Prohaska; Barker Devin, photographer.

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

Mystery Novel:
Complete in this Issue

  • “The Beauty Mask” by Mary Norman and illustrated by Matt Clark

    • STORIES:

  • “The Stolen God” — Part I — by Edison Marshall and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Keep the Change” — Part II — by Richard Connell
  • “The Captive Bride” — Part V — by Barrett Willoughby
  • “A Girl Can Get Any Man” by Mathilde Bruce Rodger
  • “Out of the Dragon’s Jaw” is a story about Captain Blood and Pirates by Rafael Sabatini and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “All Aboard for Shanghai!” featuring The Saint is by Leslie Charteris and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Scattergood Ties a Knot” is a Scattergood Baines story by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • “One-Horse Bank” by Edwin Dial Torgerson
  • “Lazy Man” by Richard Sherman with illustration by Ray Prohaska

    • STORIETTES:

  • “Spoils of War” by MacKinlay Kantor and illustrated by Herbert M. Stoops
  • “Winner, Loser” by Florence E. Shultz

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • “Peace” by Newton D. Baker
  • “Things I’ve Been Thinking About” by Henry Ford
  • “From Park Avenue to the Stars” by Thomas Sugrue is about astrologist Myra Kingsley
  • “Our No. 1 Communist” by Hubert Kelley is about Earl Browder
  • “Trouble Afoot” by Gov. Harold G. Hoffman
  • “Out of the Shadows” by William Seabrook
  • “A Chicken in Every Pot” by Beverly Smith
  • “Lost Acres” by Chester C. Davis
  • “Miles From Church” by Archibald Rutledge *(piece torn out)
  • “Can War Make Us Rich?” by Lothrop Stoddard *(piece torn out)
  • “How Aina Made the Front Page”

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:
    Eight Colorful Personalities in Gravure:

  • Mrs. R.B. Ransom
  • Capt. John D. Craig
  • Gertrude Steele
  • Belle Benchley
  • Joan Hannah Dempsey
  • Jack Doyle
  • Mel Berns
  • Dr. Ales Hrdlicka

    • FACTS AND FANCY:

  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • Along the Way
  • Who Drives Best? — Contest Winners
  • Profits — Contest Winners
  • Over Your Head by W.E. Farbstein
  • The House Detective by Roger B. Whitman
  • Little White Lies — Contest Announcement
  • What the Readers Say
  • Coca-Cola ad on the back cover