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1938-12 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

1938/12 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page: Freedom – American Style

    • Fiction:

  • “American Legend” – Part 1 of 6 – by Pearl Buck and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “The Woman Who Couldn’t Keep Up” – A Short Story by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by John Falter
  • “Miracle at Millersville” – A Short Story by Thyra Samter Winslow and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Morning Has a Way – A Short Story by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “A Chair for the Captain” – A Short Story by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “One Side of It” – A Short Story by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and illustrated by Tran Mawicke
  • “The Town Cried Murder” — Part 4 of 6 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Stanley Parkhouse
  • “Strange Victory” – Part 5 of 5 – by Franken Meloney and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • “Eldest Daughter” — A Short Story by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    • Special Features:

  • The Blight Before Christmas by Grace P. Smith
  • My Mother by Helen Topping Miller
  • Vacation Plot by Marjorie Hillis
  • Facts and Fiction by Alice Booth
  • Tom Whom It May Concern by James Hilton
  • No Traffic With the Devil by J.C. Furnas and illustrated by Peter Helck
  • What Did You Dream Last Night? by Maxine Davis
  • The Quirk Christmas Quiz by Arthur Gordon
  • Farewell to Dogs by Howard Stephenson

    • Fashions:

  • Leaves from a Designing Woman’s Datebook
  • To Keep Them Cutting In
  • Where Is the Wrapper of Yesteryear?
  • Make Clothes for Your Dolly – Knit a Bolero
  • Let Us Do Your Christmas Shopping

    • The Studio:

  • –And All Through the House
  • What Is a Set of Silver?

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • A Christmas Message
  • Tomorrow Is Christmas
  • Light On the Kitchen Work
  • Does Your Family Like Vegetables?
  • Christmas Gifts With a Story

  • More Christmas Gifts
  • Visits to the Grocer

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • The Beauty Clinic
  • A Sweet Story
  • We Test and Tell

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • It’s Still Up to Us by Dr. Walter H. Eddy
  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • Babies, Needlework, Etc.:

  • Babies Must Cry by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon
  • Gifts to Make by Anne Orr

    • For the Children

  • Walt Disney’s Silly Symphony – Merbabies – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

    • Poems:

  • “Old Shepherd” by John Dillon
  • “Soul Flight” by Dorothy Lehman Sumeru
  • “Words Are My Only Riches” by Verna M. Hills
  • “Challenge!” by Mary Hallet
  • “Let the Children Play at Dying” by Frances White
  • Full-page color ad for Karo Syrup features the Dionne Quintuplets