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1940-03 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

1940/03 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page: Easter Again — War Again

    • Fiction:

  • “Broken Melody” — Part 1 of 3 — by Grace Sartwell Mason and illustrated by Ritchie Cooper
  • “Where Love Is” by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Love Can Be a Problem” — Part 2 of 6 — by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Practically Perfect” by Lenora Mattingly Weber and illustrated by Edwin Henry
  • “Job for Life” by Dorothy Aldis and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “Mrs. Butch” by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Someone for Susie” by Ruth Lyons and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “The Man Who Put Off Marrying” by Marian Sims and illustrated by John Falter

    • Special Articles:

  • Lots of People Don’t Drink by Henrietta Ripperger
  • War and Peace in Hollywood by Mary Hamman
  • Facts and Fiction by The Staff
  • Spare That Housemaid’s Knee by Grace P. Smith
  • Ritchie Cooper
  • Espionage–Life of Peril by Richard Wilmer Rowan and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • Music at Home by Oscar Levant
  • What Price Glamour? by Claudia Cranston
  • Women in Politics — Part 2 of 3 — by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Are You a Dropper-Inner? by Lydia Hewes
  • The Brides’ School Studies Cleaning by Helen W. Kendall
  • Foolproof Plants by Chesla C. Sherlock

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Does Your Family Get Enough Milk?
  • A Few for Dinner
  • Fish baked to Perfection
  • Toast Hot and Crisp
  • Waffles Golden Brown
  • Latest News of Kitchen Sinks
  • Marketing for Two
  • Choosing Corsets for Comfort and Figure

    • The Studio:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • Good Housekeeping’s “Better Living” House
  • Transform Your “Dated” Room
  • Plot and Planting Plan

    • Fashions:
    Edited by Martha Stout

  • Letter from Lydia

  • It’s a Patriotic Spring!
  • Silk Prints That Look Like Tweeds
  • American Fashion Investments — Series II

  • With Navy Blue
  • Make Yourself a Ribbon Hat
  • What Every Woman Wants In Shoes

  • Wear Red, White, Or Blue Gloves
  • Wear Bright White With Red or Navy
  • Regimental Stripes

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • What Is She Doing?
  • Your Permanent–Long May It Wave
  • Making Your Lips Prettier Than They Are

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • Food In the Army by Dr. Walter H. Eddy
  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • Babies:

  • Does Your Child Behave? by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon

    • For the Children

  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • Donald’s Elephant – Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – A single page with a poem and 5 color illustrations

    • Poems:

  • “To a Nightingale” by Clara Hood Rugel
  • “Old Griefs” by Edith Tatum

  • “Penitence” by Virginia Eaton

  • “Lesson” by Elizabeth Grey Stewart

  • “I Saw God, Too” by Mary Rice Maxwell

  • “Spring Notes” by Maxine E. Mooney