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1941-05 American Magazine Contents

1941/05 — Cover is a color photograph by Thill-Patson.

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

SHORT NOVEL:

  • “Number 1 Wife” – Complete in this issue — By Thelma Strabel

    • SERIALS:

  • “Black Water” by Philip Wylie and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “You Go Your Way” by Katharine Brush

    • STORIES:

  • “Generals Make Promises” by H. Vernor Dixon and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “From Peak to Peak” by James R. Webb and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “Little Dog” — Storiette by Mona Gardner
  • “Retreat” — Short Short by Allan Vaughan Elston
  • “Waiting for Jerry” by Joseph Laurance Marx and illustrated by Clark Fay
  • “Snob Sister” by Ruth Lyons
  • “Coming-Out Party” by Newlin B. Wildes and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Turn Table” — Vignette by Stuart Marey
  • “Blue Roadster” by Corey Ford and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Lead-Pipe Cinch” — Vignette by Bruce Nelson

    • ARTICLES:

  • Six Highways to Happiness by Charles Erwin Wilson
  • Mr. Wood Goes to Washington by Meyer Berger is about Lord Halifax
  • Big-Name Hunters by Jerome Beatty
  • Flivvers froM Hell by Gordon Gaskill
  • Full House by William A.H. Birnie
  • Outwitting Japanese Spies by Lieut. Col. H.N. Stent
  • Let Down and Live! by Miriam Townsend Sweeny
  • Hack Writer by Ernest Lehman and David Brown is about Eddie Davis
  • Bat Magic by Clarence Woodbury
  • How to Send a Telegram by B.D. Barnett
  • A Farmer Bets a Million by Ashton Hydorn
  • Our Biggest Bother by Walter F. Wanger

    • Features:

  • Along the Way
  • Scattergood Says
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Streamlining the Classics
  • Interesting People (includes Gene Tierney)
  • Why Don’t They?
  • The Animal Fair
  • It’s the Law!
  • Double Trouble is a poem by Ogden Nash