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1940-06 Ladies Home Journal Magazine Contents

1940/06 — Cover design by Steichen

Contents as taken from the contents page and paging through the issue:

NOVEL COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE:

  • Quiet Family Wedding by Naomi Lane Babson and illustrated by John Falter

    • FICTION:

  • Speak No Evil — Part 1 of 5 by Mignon G. Eberhart and illustrated by Stanley Parkhouse
  • As Far Apart as the Polls by George Bradshaw and illustrated by Al Parker
  • Love Your Neighbor by Dorothy Black and illustrated by Haddon Sundblom
  • Common Ground by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • Women in White — Part 4 of 5 by Franken Meloney and illustrated by Robert G. Harris

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Mrs. Drummond Writes Us
  • Cleanup in Lubbock by Paul W. Kearney
  • Youth and the Real World by Dorothy Thompson
  • Early Cancer Can Often Be Cured by Parker Morell
  • The White House Speaks by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Heart Q. by Hughes Mearns
  • Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winchell by Parker Morell
  • Time of My Life — Conclusion by Katharine Brush
  • How America Lives — No. 5
  • Meet the Cricks, of Cucamonga, California

    • GENERAL FEATURES:

  • Moneky Business — The Sub-Deb by Elizabeth Woodward
  • Fifty Years Ago in the Journal
  • Journal About Town
  • Diary of Domesticity by Gladys Taber
  • This Is a Won’t Try by Munro Leaf
  • Diphtheria by Dr. Herman N. Bundesen
  • As the Twig Is Bent — No. 14 by Leslie B. Hohman, M.D.
  • Journal’s End by Ann Batchelder
  • Reference Library

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Make Your Own, Make Them Gay by Charlotte Johnson
  • This Is My Trousseau … and My Summer Wardrobe by Ruth Mary Packard
  • “I Have Three Growing Daughers” by Louise Paine Benjamin
  • Learning to Dress on an Allowance by Wilhela Cushman
  • You Might Have to Reconsider the Rebirth of Your Trousseau by Ruth Mary Packard
  • Shoe Counsel for Cool Comfort by Ruth Mary Packard

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Happy Is the Bride by Ann Batchelder
  • Line a Day by Ann Batchelder
  • It’s Everybody’s Job by Grace L. Pennock
  • “I Want to Remodel My Sink” by Grace L. Pennock

  • Eating Out With the Cricks by Louella G. Shouer
  • Crick “Specials” by Louella G. Shouer

    • INTERIOR DECORATION, BUILDING AND GARDEN:

  • Gardens Outside Your Window by Richard Pratt
  • “Our Swimming Pool Cost $200” by Richard Pratt
  • “We Like the Outdoor Type of Living Room” by Henrietta Murdock
  • Spots for “Crickettes” by Henrietta Murdock
  • Food for Flower by The Gardener’s Assistant

    • POETRY:

  • Success by Emily Dickinson
  • Not Dreaming by Helene Mullins
  • Other Music by Elford Caughey
  • The Gardener by Selma R. Osterman
  • Dream in this Quiet by George Abbe
  • Discipline by Elizabeth G. Stewart

  • Private Performance by Ida Marian Breed
  • 140 pages plus covers inside this oversized magazine