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1938-04 American Magazine Contents

1938/04 — Cover is a photograph by Victor Keppler.

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

SHORT NOVEL:
Complete in this Issue

  • “Two Can Sing” by James M. Cain and illustrated by Warren Baumgartner

    • STORIES:

  • “Too Many Cooks” — Part II by Rex Stout and illustrated by Rico Tomaso
  • “Gray Gull” by Jay Wilson and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Portrait of an Artist” by Will F. Jenkins and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Rich Man’s Ride” by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Big Fella” is a baseball story by Richard Connell and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • “Lisa Vale” — Part III by Olive Higgins Prouty and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Blank Interlude” — An American Storiette — by H. Thompson Rich and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “Drive Slowly in Eden” by Maxine McBride and illustrated by John H. Crosman
  • “Love Me, Love My Horse” by Frank Mitchell Dazey and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Off Stage” by Herbert Dalmas and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Dunce Cap” — An American Vignette — by Edward J. Kyne

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • So You Want to Get Married? by Ernest R. Groves
  • King Cotton Himself by Beverly Smith is about Will Clayton
  • Let’s Reward Safe Drivers by Earnest Elmo Calkins
  • Jasper Goes to Town by Webb Waldron
  • Youth Finds Its Feet
  • My Husband is a Detective
  • Leadership — Editorial by Virginia C. Gildersleeve
  • Where Giants Sleep by Thomas Sugrue

    • FACTS AND FANCY:

  • Cause for Divorce by Jay Irving
  • Why Don’t They
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Will Your Children Avoid Your Mistakes?
  • Do You Know Your $10 Words?
  • How to Buy Intelligently
  • Interesting People — a large photo and text featuring James M. Cain, Maria Savage and a few others
  • The House Detective by Roger B. Whitman
  • An American Test
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • Your Best Friend Wouldn’t Treat You Like That by John S. Phillips
  • Along the Way

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: The Dionne Quintuplets illustrated for Karo Syrup, Budweiser ad featuring color photo of the Grand Canyon, and Claudette Colbert for Lucky Strike Cigarettes on the back cover.