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1938-10 American Magazine Contents

1938/10 — Cover is a photograph of Carol Chadwick and an English Setter by Victor Keppler

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

SHORT NOVEL:

  • Complete in this Issue — “Bermuda Grapevine” by Mignon G. Eberhart and illustrated by Carl Mueller

    • SERIALS:

  • “Firebrand” — Part 2 — by Tom Gill and illustrated by Dean Cornwell
  • “For Beauty’s Sake” — Part 4 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Alfred Parker

    • STORIES:

  • “Captain’s Boy” by Paul Deresco Augsburg and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

  • “Hollywood Legend” by Vivien R. Bretherton and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “We, the Living” by Highie Call and illustrated by Edwin Henry
  • “Hard Little Job” by Sophie Kerr and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Fair Play” – An American Vignette – by Alfred Hart
  • “The Gewgaw House” by Ann Morse and illustrated by John Alan Maxwell
  • “Revenge is Sweet” by Helen Dick Davis and illustrated by John LaGatta

    • ARTICLES:

  • They’ve Got Taxes by the Tail by James Street
  • Desert Doctor by Jerome Beatty is about Dr. Paul W. Harrison

  • Taking the Raps by James A. Farley
  • Screwballs by John Kiernan, colorful stories about World Series from the past
  • The America I Want – Winner of the American Youth Forum Grand Award – by Leon G. Lenkoff

  • Is Your Dog in Style? by Earl Sparling and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy

  • Crime’s Paymaster by Courtney Ryley Cooper is about dope czar Big Bill Hildebrandt

  • Destiny – Editorial by Harry Allen Overstreet

    • FEATURES:

  • Vocab-O-Gram
  • Why Don’t They?
  • What Worries You Most?
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Interesting People – 12 Colorful Personalities –
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • Along the Way
  • 500 Honorable Mention Awards — American Youth Forum