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1937-08 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

1937/08 –

Contents as follows:

  • Cover Photograph by Henry Waxman

    • SHORT STORIES:

  • “Ghost My Eye! by Walter Brooks
  • “Three Tables” by Virginia Byrd

    • ARTICLES:

  • Ours Was the Best Generation by Gene Shuford with drawings by Victor Candell – Preceded bythe Jazz Era and followed by today’s smug New Youth, the college graduates of the middle nineteen-twenties comes into a late ripening
  • Why Do They Read It? by Belle Rosenbaum – Explaining that bewildering American phenomenon, Gone With the Wind — how it changed the reading habits of a nation, why it outsold all best-sellers

    • LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES:

  • The American Student Leaves the Reservation by Maude Palmer Thayer
  • A Day in the Cumberlands by Marian Lackey
  • “Mountain People” — Verse by Jesse Stuart

    • THE PEOPLE AND THE ARTS:

  • Jim Tully by Frank Scully – 4 pages with a photo of Tully and one of his mansion
  • Books by John Chamberlain
  • Book Notes by Katherine Gauss Jackson
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert

    • TRAVEL:

  • East-to-West — 5. The Eastern Mediterranean by George Brandt
  • Vacation Cruises by K.K.

    • FEATURES:

  • Straws in the Wind
  • Who Looks Upon an Ocean Bay by Kathryn Grondahl
  • American Painters Series — No.6, White-faced Cattle by Howard Cook – Beautiful tipped-in page on higher quality paper, thick stock, blank back, quite colorful
  • Scribner’s Portfolio of American Photography
  • don herold examines: by Don Herold
  • The Scribner Quiz by Irving D. Tressler
  • The Sun Comes Home by Katherine Kent