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1933-08 American Magazine Contents

1933/08 — Cover illustrated by Bradshaw Crandell

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

ARTICLES:

  • Along the Glory Road by Lawrence Tibbett
  • Passing Out the Patronage by James A. Farley
  • Getting the Jump on Crime by Courtney Ryley Cooper is about the United States Bureau of Investigation and opens with a half-page photo of young J. Edgar Hoover
  • “She’s Doing Her Own Work’ by Agnes Sligh Turnbull and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • I Have 7,000,000 Neighbors by Alfred E. Smith with drawing by Joseph Golinkin
  • Have You Really Learned to Talk? by Vida Sutton
  • An Ironmaster Tackles Today’s Biggest Puzzle by John T. Flynn
  • Who’s to Blame–Machines or Men? by Ernest T. Weir
  • Faith by George A. Moreno as told to Helen Christine Bennett
  • Boss of Muscle Shoals by Webb Waldron

    • FICTION:

  • The Lady Liked Emeralds by Frederick C. Painton and illustrated by Harry L. Timmins
  • In Any Emergency by Eustace L. Adams and illustrated by Karl Godwin
  • Eddie Mows the Lawn by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • A King in Caribbea — A Novelette Complete in This Issue by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by J.W. Schlaikjer
  • Star Magic — Part 5 — by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • Davy Meets the World by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • 13 for Dinner — Last Installment of a Serial by Agatha Christie and illustrated by Welden Trench

    • INTERSTING PEOPLE:

  • Sistie: Anna Eleanor Dall
  • Champion: John Collier
  • Contender: Maureen Orcutt
  • Dean: William B. Gibson
  • Friend: Molly Keatly
  • Safe-Cracker: Charles Courtney
  • Mrs. Grundy: Alice-Leone Moats
  • Puppeteer: Harry Burnett

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • You’d Be Surprised by Joe Williams
  • Patterpics – A New Game
  • It Takes All Kinds by W.S.
  • Oswald K. Blemish, M.M. by H.T. Webster
  • N.E.C.’s Problem – Discussed by Crosby Field
  • Prize Winner May Contest
  • The Meeting Place
  • Back cover features a Wheaties ad with a 6 panel comic strip starring Babe Ruth — “No More Breakfast Coaxing – How Wheaties and BABE RUTH’S FREE Home Run Moviebook Turned the Trick