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1941-01 The American Magazine Contents for January 1941

1941/01 — Cover is a natural color photograph by Leon De Vos

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

SHORT NOVEL:

  • “The Halfway Heart – Complete in this Issue by Laurette MacDuffie Knight

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Talk of the Town” — Part 2 of 5 — by Ann Pinchot and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Wildcat 13” — Part 4 of 6 by Tom Gill

    STORIES:

  • “Two in a Glass House” by Eleanor DeLamater and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Eleven Years” — Vignette by Denis Plimmer
  • “Christmas in the Heart” by Rachel Field with a full-page color illustration by Norman Rockwell
  • “It Must Be Love” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Might-Have-Been” by Marion Baxter Taylor and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “His Own Medicine” by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • “Echo of War” by Thomas Rourke and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “The Meanest Man” — Storiette by Paul Schubert
  • “Fire by Night” — Short short story by Constance Wagner
  • “Dumb Guy” — Vignette by Gordon Gaskill

    • ARTICLES:

  • The Blue Bird Found Again by Maurice Maeterlinck
  • King of Canada by Beverly Smith about Prime Minister Mackenzie King

  • Adventures of a Sneeze Hound by Katherine Madison
  • How to Get Along in the Army by William G. McChesney
  • Half a Dozen Ways to Get Rich by William D. Collidge, Ph.D.
  • Warning–Keep Out! by John Winter
  • Tell It to the Judge by Michael Angelo Musmanno
  • Star Salesman by Clarence Woodbury
  • Art Begins at Home by James C. Boudreau
  • Let ‘er Roll by Jerome Beatty
  • Science Steps Up the Game by Norman V. Carlisle
  • Santa Claus Becomes a Citizen by Ruth Moore Morriss
  • Accuracy by H.W. Phelps

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Interesting People in the American Scene
  • Along the Way
  • Scattergood Says
  • New Eyes for the Needy
  • Why Don’t They?
  • Johnny-On-the-Spot
  • American Parade
  • Streamlining the Classics
  • The Animal Fair
  • Getting Along
  • How Emotional Are You
  • Signs of the Times
  • New Ways to Enjoy Your Home
  • Word Teasers
  • Around the House
  • Carrots O’Hara
  • It’s the Law!
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Life’s Little Temptations and 13 other comics