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1936-06 American Magazine Contents

1936/06 — Cover is a natural-color photograph Paul Hesse

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

MYSTERY NOVEL:

  • “Masquerade” by Max Brand and illustrated by Matt Clark

    • STORIES:

  • “Face the Facts” — Part 1 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Words and Music” by Octavus Roy Cohen and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “The Saint and the Siren” by Leslie Charteris and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Bad Man” — Storiette — by H. Thompson Rich and illustrated by John Alan Maxwell
  • “Tuna Clipper” by Eustace L. Adams and illustrated by Jules Gottlieb
  • “The Stolen God” — Part 5 — by Edison Marshall and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “They Who Have” — Part 3 — by Reita Lambert and illustrated by John LaGatta
  • “Perish Me Gently” by John Saunders Fitch
  • “Love Ouanga” by Kenneth Perkins with large appx. 14-1/2″ wide X 6-7/8″ tall full color illustration by Norman Rockwell stretching across two pages
  • “The Better Half” by Eleanor De Lamater

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Endurance by Glenn Cunningham
  • Dishing Up Two Billion Dollars by Hubert Kelley
  • Errand Boy of Crime by J. Edgar Hoover is about John Paul Chase
  • Dust Gets in Your Eyes by Frank R. Kent
  • Follow the Feet by Fred Astaire
  • We All Can’t Be Beautiful, But– by Helena Rubenstein
  • Turning Point — Miniature by John Winter
  • Dixie Flavor by Beverly Smith
  • Let’s Go Househunting by Selma Robinson
  • A Job Behind the Counter? – Answers by Percy S. Strauss
  • I Blow My Own Horn by Babe Didrickson

    • FACT AND FANCY:
    INTERESTING PEOPLE – 8 Colorful Personalities:

  • Improviser – Frank Capra
  • Insulter – Luke Barnett
  • Guide – Ted Peckham
  • Signpainter – Aubrey Williams
  • Rainbow – Ruth Hughes Aarons
  • Beanstalker – Ellen Eddy Shaw
  • Patcher – Mrs. Richard Rodgers
  • Soloist – Billy Lee
  • How Brave Are You? by J.W. Wrightstone
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Current Books by Donald Gordon
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • Our Changing World by John Dungan
  • The House Detective by Roger B. Whitman
  • What the Readers Say
  • Does It Pay to Be Good? — Contest