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1956-08 American Magazine Contents

1956/08 — Cover is a painting by Phil Dormont

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

ARTICLES:

  • What America Means to Me by J. Hugo Aronson
  • A Teenage Dream Comes True by Jack Long is about Susan Strasberg with a few black & white photos and one full-page color photo
  • School Crisis in Dixie by Virginius Dabney
  • Let’s Take the Mystery Out of Cooking by Rex Stout – with full-page black & white photo of the author outdoors over some smoke, title and start of article on bottom half of this page
  • His Best Friends Are Monkeys by Vance Packard about George Vierheller
  • Keys to Happiness by Wyatt Blassingame
  • What Goes Into Your Car

    • NOVELS:

  • For Olivia, My Wife by Gertrude Schweitzer and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • The Girl Who Saw Too Much by Holly Roth and illustrated by David Stone Martin

    • STORIES:

  • There She Goes Again by Leslie Hall with illustration by Darrel Greene
  • The Guilty Hour by Miriam Cavanaugh
  • Crazy Over Horses by Walter Kaylin and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff
  • Grand Prize — Short Short Story by Gordon Gaskill with illustration by Jo Polseno
  • The Exploiter — Storiette by Edwin T. Connell

    • FEATURES:

  • Letters Across the Editors’ Desks
  • Movies of the Month
  • The Open Door
  • Funny Side of the Street
  • Why Don’t They?
  • Interesting People
  • Today’s Fabulous Figures
  • Kangaroo Words
  • It’s the Law!
  • Now They’ve Done It!
  • Help for Your House
  • Directory of School and Colleges
  • Private Punky