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1936-10 American Magazine Contents

1936/10 — 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

  • “Mr. Pinkerton is Present” by David Frome and illustrated by John Schucker

    • STORIES:

  • “Crossroads” — Part I — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “The Parson Takes a Wife” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe and Paul Meylan
  • “The Saint in Hollywood” by Leslie Charteris and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Tides of Memory” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman with 7″ X 9″ color illustration by Norman Rockwell
  • “War Game” by Peter B. Kyne with illustration by W. Emerson Heitland
  • “What the Deuce!” by Newlin B. Wildes and illustrated by John LaGatta
  • “Slicker” — A Vignette — by Robert H. Rohde
  • “Red Earth” — Part III — by Tom Gill and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “A Knight in New Jersey” by MacKinlay Kantor and illustrated by Pierre Brissaud
  • “Blocking Back” — Part II — by Harry A. Stuhldreher and illustrated by John E. Sheridan

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • “Safety” by Cary T. Grayson
  • “The Kansas Gang” by Frank R. Kent
  • “Crime’s Mouthpiece” by J. Edgar Hoover with Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • “I’m a Fool About My Boy” by Ed Wynn with caricature of Wynn by Alajalov
  • “What Next?” by H.G. Wells
  • “Mr. Odets Regrets” by Thomas Sugrue
  • “I Used to Be a Bridge Addict”
  • “Do You Fight With Your Husband?” by Jerome Beatty with drawings by Rea Irvin
  • “Adventure at Your Fingertips” by James W. Booth
  • “Such Language!” by H.L. Mencken
  • “How Correctly Do You Speak?”
  • “Umps” by Joe Williams

    • FACTS AND FANCY:

  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Interesting People & Colorful Personalities — One-page each with large photo and text of the following: Joan de Tuscan, Vincenti Minnelli, John Blackland, Julia Chandler, Robert Adams, L.E. Stemmler, Daphne Vane, John and Mack Rust
  • Does It Pay to Be Good? — Contest Winners
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • The House Detective by Roger B. Whitman
  • How’s Your Game? — Contest Announcement
  • I Think — Winning Letter
  • What the Readers Say

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Norma Shearer & Leslie Howard in Romeo and Juliet, Ivory Soap, Campbell’s Soups, Errol Flynn for Quaker’s Puffed Wheat*, Shirley Temple for the Teledial Radio*, Spanky McFarland for Karo Syrup, and a Camel Cigarettes ad featuring “Human Comets” Hugo and Mario Zacchini on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))