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1935-01 The American Magazine Contents for January 1935

1935/01 — Cover is a natural color photograph directed by Ray Prohaska with photography by F. Alden Weeks

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

MYSTERY NOVEL:

  • “Eight Bells” by Frederic Arnold Kummer and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

    FICTION:

  • “Even the Ocean Laughed” by David Garth and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Starlight Pass” — Part 2 of a serial by Tom Gill and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “The Man With the Nose” by Walter D. Edmonds and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Willie Takes a Step” by Don Marquis with color illustration spreading across top two-thirds of first two pages by Norman Rockwell
  • “Until It’s Over” by MacKinlay Kantor with drawing by August Bleser, Jr.
  • “Beauty’s Daughter” — Part 4 of a serial by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “I Could Brighten Your Life!” by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
  • “The Closed Room” — Conclusion of a serial by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe

  • “Courage for Two” by Brassil Fitzgerald and illustrated by Ronald McLeod
  • “Magic Circle” by Hugh MacNair Kahler and illustrated by C.D. Williams

    • ARTICLES:

  • Our $280,000,000 Gamble by Beverly Smith is about the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
  • We Jews by George E. Sokolsky
  • Short-Weight Justice by Jerome Beatty with illustration by Rollin Kirby
  • A Matter of Size by Frank J. Taylor
  • The Government and the Banks by Thomas F. Woodlock
  • Have You Paid Your Doctor? by Webb Waldron with drawing by Ralph Stein
  • Today’s Liquor Problems — Questions by Henry F. Pringle — Answers by Joseph H. Choate, Jr.
  • Amateur Night by Hubert Kelley
  • Time Out! by Archibald Rutledge and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • What the New Congress Faces by Frank R. Kent with cartoon by Harold Talburt
  • Desert Heat and London Fog by Thomas Sugrue and illustrated by Edward A. Wilson

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial — Growth by Robert A. Millikan
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • As Others See You by Eleanor Early
  • “The Thing I’ve Always Wanted to Do” — Contest Announcement
  • Anything Wrong With the Plumbing? by Roger B. Whitman
  • What the Readers Say

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Fire-eater – Bernard R. Hubbard
  • Prexy – Mary E. Woolley
  • Father Time – Paul Sollenberger
  • Scenographer – Russell Patterson
  • Players – Fred & Carol Stone
  • Needle-Pusher – Lucia Coulter
  • Iceman – Roy Worters
  • Bridge-Builder – Joseph B. Strauss