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1938-06 American Magazine Contents

1938/06 — 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 — “Write Your Own Ticket” by David Garth and illustrated by Alfred Parker

    • SERIALS:

  • “Lisa Vale” — Conclusion by Olive Higgins Prouty and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Too Many Cooks” — Part 4 of a Nero Wolfe Mystery by Rex Stout and illustrated by Rico Tomaso

    • STORIES:

  • “Heaven to Earth” by Blaine and Jean Dupont Miller and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “Dear Victory” by Josephine Bentham and illustrated by Edwin Henry
  • “Pawn Takes Bishop” – $1,000 Prize Story — by Gayle W. Maile and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Ring on Her Finger” by Charles H. Hoffman and illustrated by Carl Mueller

  • “Handsome Stranger” by Agnes Sligh Turnbull and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Girls Without Gold” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Ladies Go Last” by R.G. Kirk and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Hearts on the Mend” by Louise Skene and illustrated by John LaGatta

    • ARTICLES:

  • California Racket Buster by Joseph O. Riznik is about Clifford E. Clinton
  • Diagnosing the Doctors by Beverly Smith
  • Youth at the Wheel by Webb Waldron
  • I’ve Stopped Killing for Money by Lieut. Orrin Dwight Bell
  • Wake Up Singing by Doron K. Antrim and illustrated by D.B. Holcomb
  • “Strange Ways to Make a Living” by Jerome Beatty
  • The King of Bandits by J. Edgar Hoover with Courtney Ryley Cooper about Bill Hale
  • It’s In the Bag by Gene Sarazen

  • Youth Awaits the Verdict
  • Family – Editorial by Senator Arthur Capper

    • FEATURES:

  • How to Buy Intelligently
  • It’s Examination Time
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • Why Don’t They?
  • Interesting People – 12 Colorful Personalities – Includes a 7″ X 9″ brown-toned photo of 22-Year Old Orson Welles with brief accompanying write-up above the photo
  • The House Detective by Roger B. Whitman
  • “A Husband Rebels” is a poem by Berton Braley
  • Along the Way