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1949-01 American Magazine Contents

1949/01 — Cover is a painting by Walter M. Baumhofer

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

NOVELS:

  • “A Few Good Years” by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Robert Patterson
  • “Wife of the Victim” — Mystery by Philip Clark

    • STORIES:

  • “The Long Honeymoon” by Howard Linn Edsall and illustrated by Al Freudeman
  • “Swing Miss Posey” by Nelma Haynes and illustrated by Perry Peterson
  • “A Hard Man to See” — Short Short Story by Oscar Schisgall with illustration by Bernard D’Andrea
  • “Runaway Heart” by Francis K. Allan and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “The Wonderful Dope” by William Fay and illustrated by F. Scott Wood
  • “Crooked Lane” by Norbert Fagan and illustrated by John Clymer
  • “The Critic” — Vignette by Edwin T. Connell
  • “A Whim of Iron” by Ralph Condon and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff
  • “Beginning Tonight” by William E. Barrett and illustrated by Walter Skor
  • “Present for a Lady” — Storiette by Carl Prentiss and illustrated by Bill Baker

    • ARTICLES:

  • Border Battles Among the States by george T. Renner, Ph. D.
  • More Security for You by Oscar R. Ewing
  • What Happened to Kansas by Clarence Woodbury
  • Fugitive Husbands by J.B. Griswold
  • Big City Skating Pond by Wayne Amos
  • What Do You Mean–Dumb Animals! by Vance Packard
  • Things I Can’t Explain by J.B. Rhine, Ph.D.
  • We’ve Got to Pay More for Leadership by U.S. Senator Herbert R. O’Conor
  • The Happiest Man I Ever Knew by Aiken Welch
  • High, Low, Ace and Jane by Jerome Beatty
  • Little Gift — Miniature by Jack Carson
  • Our New Plastic World by Tom bernard

    • FEATURES:

  • Interesting People, includes one page with full-color photo of Bill France
  • By the Way
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Why Don’t They?
  • Now They’ve Done It
  • Check That Impulse!
  • Life’s Little Miracles
  • Mind Your P’s and Q’s
  • Family Money
  • Life’s Little Problems
  • Food Front
  • Turning Point
  • It’s the Law! and other distintive comics