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1936-07 American Magazine Contents

1936/07 — Cover is a natural-color photograph Paul Hesse

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

MYSTERY NOVEL:

  • “The Paradise Canyon Mystery” by Philip Wylie

    • STORIES:

  • “Bright-Lights Girl” by James McConnaughey and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “Face the Facts” — Part 2 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “A Dog Has His Day” by Hugh Walpole and illustrated by Seymour Ball
  • “Fortune’s Footsteps” — Storiette — by Robert H. Rohde and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Turn Back the Clock” by Harold Titus and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • “They Who Have” — Part 4 — by Reita Lambert and illustrated by John LaGatta
  • “Square Peg” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Robert C. Gellert
  • “The Stolen God” — Conclusion — by Edison Marshall and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Blood Money” is a Captain Blood strory by Rafael Sabatini and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Ladies on Relief” by Freeman Tilden and illustrated by Ronald McLeod

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Opportunity by W.C. Teagle
  • What It Takes to Get into the Movies by Oliver Hinsdell
  • 200 Miles to the Stone Age by Robert M. Hyatt and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • Youth Takes the Wheel by Theodore G. Joslin
  • Respectable Eddie by J. Edgar Hoover is about book collector, coin collector and bank robber Eddie Bentz
  • Cross Your Fingers! by Claudia de Lys
  • You’re Telling Me! by William Seabrook with Walter Duranty
  • 20 Years a Hostess in Washington Social Whirl by Mrs. J. Borden Harriman
  • Better Than Perfect by Archibald Rutledge
  • Your Chances for a Hotel Job by Lucius Boomer with Henry F. Pringle
  • Dark Horses of the Olympics by John Kieran
  • Plan It Yourself by Gerald K. Geerlings

    • FACT AND FANCY:
    INTERESTING PEOPLE – 9 Colorful Personalities:

  • Magicians – Cyril von Baumann and Andre Roosevelt
  • Olympian – Lawson Robertson
  • Lobbyist – Daisy Miller
  • Jockey – Katherine Reid
  • Quirksmith – Paul Mayer
  • Frontiersman – Billy Rose
  • Solomon — Ruth White Colton
  • Knitter – Mrs. Roy Largent
  • In the Groove — Miniature — by William Corbin
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Current Books by Donald Gordon
  • Mysteries — Contest Winners
  • It’s the Law by Dick Hyman
  • The House Detective by Roger B. Whitman
  • “I Think” — Contest Announcement
  • What the Readers Say