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1935-10 American Magazine Contents

1935/10 — Cover is a natural-color photograph by F. Alden Weeks

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

FICTION:

  • “The Captive Bride’ — Part 1 — by Barrett Willoughby and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “A Nut on Research” by Mignon Downing Lake and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Patron of Arts” — A Scattergood Story — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Two Men” — A Storiette — by Margaret Carpenter and illustrated by C.C. Beall
  • “Not in the Bargain’ by Constance Hall and illustrated by John LaGatta
  • “Storm” by Theodore Fredenburgh and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Truck Away” by Harold Titus and illustrated by Rico Le Brun
  • “Marry the Girl’ — Part 3 — by Edward Hope and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Footsteps at Night” — Part 5 — by Valentine Williams and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “For Thirty Years” by Katharine Haviland-Taylor
  • “Double Rebound” by Rebecca Stevenson and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • “The Long Arm” — A complete fiction story in 357 words — by Channing Pollock
  • “Hunt’s End” by Elmer Ransom and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Dust” by Kimball Herrick and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • ARTICLES:

  • Toelerance by Robert M. Hutchins
  • Wall Street Wants to See You by Jerome Beatty
  • Every Man a Colonel by Hubert Keeley and illustrated by Adolph Kronengold
  • Speed by Walter Lippmann
  • A Fight for Life by Charles J.V. Murphy
  • Second Helpings by Beverly Smith
  • Watch That Pass! by Edwin B. Dooley
  • A City Goes to School by William Corbin
  • What Good is a Husband?
  • Dividends by John C. Murdock
  • Some Folks Are Lucky by J.B. Griswold
  • OTHER FEATURES:

  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • What Are Your Profits? – Contest Announcement
  • The House Detective by Roger B. Whitman
  • What Age Is Best? – Contest Winners
  • Along the Way
  • Under Your Hat by Rose Laird
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Charmer – Myron Mittleman
  • Last – Arizona Bill
  • Debunker – Claudia De Lys
  • Employer – W. Frank Persons
  • Dangler – Margeret Bourke-White
  • Reckless – Lee Gehlbach
  • Chips – Owen Davis Jr., Mary Rogers & Keenan Wynn
  • Beachcomber – Gertdue Neidlinger
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1935-09 American Magazine Contents

    1935/09 — Cover is a natural-color photograph directed by Ray Prohaska, with Barker Devin, photographer.

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

    MYSTERY NOVEL:

  • “The Trail of Mark Adams” — Complete in this Issue — byt Philip Wylie
  • FICTION:

  • “Smile on the High Notes” by Margaret Craven and illustrated by A. Parker
  • “Don’t Call Me Darling” by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Stone by the Birch” by Rachel Field and illustrated by John Holmgren
  • “Marry the Girl” — Part II — by Edward Hope and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Good Timber” by Borden Chase and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • “Not Cloudy All Day” by MacKinlay Kantor and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Warning to Tomboys” by Herbert Dalmas and illustrated by Walter Klett
  • “Footsteps at Night” — Part IV — by Valentine Williams and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Opera Hat” — Conclusion — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “One More Song” by Ben Ames Williams and illustrated by Albert Dorne
  • ARTICLES:

  • Alone by Charles J.V. Murphy is about Admiral Richard E. Byrd
  • Let’s Eat by Beverly Smith
  • Your Golf Will Find You Out by Tommy Armour
  • Minnesota’s Enigma by John Janney is about Governor Floyd B. Olson
  • My Husband Flirts With Death by Lady Campbell is about Malcolm Campbell
  • She Was Such a Nice Girl by Jerome Beatty is about Claudette Colbert
  • Getting Away With Murder by Harold G. Hoffman
  • What Do Animals Think of You? by Archibald Rutledge
  • The House Detective by Roger B. Whitman
  • Tailor, Beware! by Elizabeth Hawes
  • Playing With Dynamite by General Hugh S. Johnson
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial–Belief by Dr. Henry Norris Russell
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • “Winners” — Contest Winners
  • “What Shall We Play?” by Elisa Maxwell
  • Along the Way
  • Who Drives Best? — Contest Announcement
  • Seed ‘Em and Reap by Neil M. Clark
  • Who Wants to Go Boom? by H.I. Phillips
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • ABCD — Morlock Quadruplets
  • Number, Please? — Louise Hackmeister
  • Booter — Leroy N. Mills
  • Headhunter — Dr. Margaret Mead
  • Spender — Admiral Christian Joy Peoples
  • Whiskers — Grant Wood
  • Miracle — Grischa Gobuloff
  • Dresser — Polly Pettit
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Camel Cigarettes featuring Lou Gehrig, Gene Sarazen and other stars of sport, Anna Karenina featuring Greta Garbo, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover.

    Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1935-08 American Magazine Contents

    1935/08 — Cover is a natural-color photograph directed by Ray Prohaska and photographed by Barker Devin

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

    FICTION:

  • “Marry the Girl” — Part 1 — by Edward Hope and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Footsteps at Night” — Part 3 — by Valentine Williams and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Hungry to Know” by Coningsby Dawson and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • “Freedom for Two” by Christopher Craig and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Sawdust Soldiers” by Peter B. Kyne and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Unknown Sea” by Marion Brandon and illustrated by John R. Holmgren
  • “He Fell Off A Horse” by David Garth
  • “Golden Glide” by Maxine McBride and illustrated by Ronald McLeod
  • “No Man Is Worth It” by Allene Corliss and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Opera Hat” — Part 4 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Read ‘Em and Weep” by Rube Goldberg and illustrated by Earl Oliver Hurst
  • “Green Valley” by Talbert Josselyn and illustrated by Rico Le Brun
  • ARTICLES:

  • A “Weakling” Conquers the Arctic by Hubert Kelley about David Irwin
  • Mile-a-Minute Men by Governor Harold G. Hoffman
  • Girls Are Made of Star-Dust by W.C. Pop Fuller – Fuller is coach of tennis champions including Helen Jacobs and Helen Wills Moody
  • Plans by the Carload by Walter Lippmann
  • Fifteen Years a Governor by Albert C. Ritchie
  • Life of the Party by Elsa Maxwell
  • What Is Public Ownership? by Isaac Don Levine
  • Bullfighter by Dorothy Cottrell
  • “Where Have I Seen You Before?” by Jerome Beatty about photographic model Janice Jarratt
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial–Fame by Babe Ruth – One-page editorial by the Bambino
  • What Would You Like to Play? — Contest Annoucement
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Pet Worries — Contest Winners
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • Anything Wrong at Home? by Roger B. Whitman
  • Good Old Summer by Maurice Chideckel, M.D.
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Postman — Helen Richey
  • Triple Threat — Tamara Geva
  • Fifer — MacKinlay Kantor
  • Deep — Gloria Hollister
  • Dressmaker — Joseph Lanz
  • Horse Sense — Mary Hirsch
  • Trouper — Frankie M. Thomas, Jr.
  • Prophet — Hugh H. Bennett
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1935-08 American Magazine Contents

    1935/08 — Cover is a natural-color photograph directed by Ray Prohaska and photographed by Barker Devin

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

    FICTION:

  • “Marry the Girl” — Part 1 — by Edward Hope and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Footsteps at Night” — Part 3 — by Valentine Williams and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Hungry to Know” by Coningsby Dawson and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • “Freedom for Two” by Christopher Craig and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Sawdust Soldiers” by Peter B. Kyne and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Unknown Sea” by Marion Brandon and illustrated by John R. Holmgren
  • “He Fell Off a Horse” by David Garth
  • “Golden Glide” by Maxine McBride and illustrated by Ronald McLeod
  • “No Man is Worth It” by Allene Corliss
  • “Opera Hat” — Part 5 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Read ‘Em and Weep” by Rube Goldberg and illustrated by Earl Oliver Hurst
  • “Green Valley” by Talbert Josselyn
  • ARTICLES:

  • A “Weakling” Conquers the Arctic by Hubert Kelley
  • Mile-a-Minue Men by Governor Harold G. Hoffman
  • Girls Are Made of Star Dust by W.C. Pop Fuller
  • Plans by the Carload by Walter Lippmann
  • Fifteen Years a Governor by Albert C. Ritchie
  • Life of the Party by Elsa Maxwell
  • What is Public Ownership? by Isaac Don Levine
  • Bullfighter by Dorothy Cottrell
  • “Where Have I Seen You Before?” by Jerome Beatty
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial–Fame by BABE RUTH – Just a single page with very small illustration of the Bambino’s head
  • What Would You Like to Play? – Contest Announcement
  • It Takes All Kinds by Walter Benjamin
  • Pet Worries – Contest Winners
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • Anything Wrong at Home? by Roger B. Whitman
  • Good Old Summer by Maurice Chideckel, M.D.
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Postman – Helen Richey
  • Triple Threat – Tamara Geva
  • Fifer – MacKinlay Kantor
  • Deep – Gloria Hollister
  • Dressmaker – Joseph Lanz
  • Horse Sense – Mary Hirsch
  • Trouper – Frankie M. Thomas, Jr.
  • Prophet – Hugh H. Bennett
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1935-07 American Magazine Contents

    1935/07 — Cover is a natural-color photograph by Paul Hesse.

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

    MYSTERY NOVEL:

  • “The Twisted Face” — Complete in this Issue — by Frederic Arnold Kummer and illustrated by Robert C. Gellert
  • FICTION:

  • “From Now On” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Robert C. Gellert
  • “A Pretty Soft Thing” by William Wister Haines and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Girl in Camp” by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • “Untamed” by Konrad Bercovici and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Opera Hat” — Part IV — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Footsteps at Night” — Part II — by Valentine Williams and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Racing Abe Goes Home” by Dorothy Cottrell and illustrated by Robert O. Reid
  • “See You Sunday” by David Garth and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Out of the Five” by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Oscar F. Schmidt
  • ARTICLES:

  • He-Men Wear Aprons by Jack Dempsey
  • 30 Years a City Editor by Charles I. Blood
  • These Dry States by Hubert Kelley
  • They’re Off by Frank R. Kent
  • Nomad’s Land by Beverly Smith is about trailer homes
  • I’m Tame as a Lion by Norma Shearer
  • Book of Magic by Thomas Sugrue and illustrated by John E. Sheridan
  • It’s Only a Cold by Maurice Chideckel, M.D.
  • Where Do We Go From Here? by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial–Work by Frederick H. Ecker
  • “I Believe” — Contest Announcement
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Before You Buy by Roger B. Whitman
  • “Does Kindness Pay?” — Contest Winners
  • Along the Way
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Jungler — Wynant Davis Hubbard
  • Mister — Geroge Breck Montgomery
  • Cool — Maxi Herber & Ernest Baier
  • Fixer — Norman H. Davis
  • Trainer — Mrs. Harrison Eustis
  • Sleuth — Sigmund Spaeth
  • Atlas — Sally Plunkett
  • Linguist — Norma Shearer
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1935-06 American Magazine Contents

    1935/06 — Cover is a photograph directed by Ray Prohaska and photographed by Barker Devin

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

    FICTION:

  • “Footsteps at Night” — Part 1 — by Valentine Williams and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Dusty Miller” by Isabel Stewart Way and illustrated by Robert O. Reid
  • “Pockets Inside Out” by Martha Hays Weymouth and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • “One Gentleman to Another” by Corey Ford and illustrated by Pruett Clark
  • “Eddie Takes a Rest” by Don Marquis and illustrated by Russell Patterson
  • “First Day” by Richard Sherman and illustrated by Robert C. Gellert
  • “Lights Against Him” by Borden Chase
  • “Furnished Room” by Leona Dalrymple and illustrated by Gladys Rockmore Davis
  • “Opera Hat” — Part 3 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Blonde Percentage” by Kimball Herrick and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Spangles” by Maxine McBride and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Never Mind the Lady” — Conclusion — by David Garth and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • ARTICLES:

  • Tax Slaves by General Hugh S. Johnson with illustration by Harold Talburt
  • Hot Spot by Courtney Ryley Cooper with drawing by Zadig
  • “You Ought to Be in Pictures” by Edith Strand
  • Muddy Millions by Thomas Sugrue with drawing by John Atherton
  • What Business Really Wants: Questions by Henry F. Pringle – Answers by Henry I. Harriman
  • Bunch of Keys by William Corbin
  • The Challenge to the Constitution by Walter Lippmann with drawing by Rollin Kirby
  • One Alaska Night by Barrett Willoughby with drawing by Harold Von Schmidt
  • Education on the Auction Block by Thomas M. Johnson
  • In at the Finish by Archibald Rutledge
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial: Foresight by Owen D. Young
  • Are You Ruled by Your Heart or Head? by Eleanor Early
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Next to Your House by Roger B. Whitman
  • Are Mothers a Menace? — Contest Winners
  • It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman
  • Fast Ones by W.E. Farbstein
  • What Age Is Best? – Contest Announcement
  • What the Readers Say
  • Along the Way
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Xylotomist – Arthur Koehler
  • Shaver – Freddie Bartholomew
  • Gardener – Leona Dalrymple
  • Whiz – Ethel Mercereau
  • Busiest – George Anthiel
  • Minnow – Katherine Rawls
  • Baby – Rush Holt
  • Pendulum – Stuart Benson
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1935-05 American Magazine Contents

    1935/05 — Cover is a photograph directed by Ray Prohaska and photographed by Barker Devin

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

    MYSTERY NOVEL:

  • Complete in this issue: “The Clock Strikes” by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Samuel Otis
  • FICTION:

  • “Opera Hat” — Part 2 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Still Fishing” by Arthur Stringer and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Powder-Puff Champs” by James Cromwell and illustrated by Frderick Chapman
  • “Worth the Mending” by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger with natural color photograph directed by Mario Cooper and photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston
  • “Handy to Have” by Phyllish Duganne and illustrated by Herbert M. Stoops
  • “Tent Show” by Konrad Bercovici and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Upstage” by Eleanor DeLamater and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Don’t Go Near the Water’ by Howard Brubaker and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • “Half an Hour” by Richard Sherman and illustrated by Russell Patterson
  • “Never Mind the Lady” — Part 4 — by David Garth and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Starlight Pass” — Conclusion — by Tom Gill and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • ARTICLES:

  • Disarmament–How? by H.G. Wells
  • Flying Phantom by Jack Lincke
  • As Japan Sees Us — Questions by Henry F. Pringle ; Answers by Hirosi Saito
  • Strategy of the Extremists by General Hugh S. Johnson and illustrated by Rollin Kirby
  • Recovery Key by John Janney
  • Voice from the Bleachers by Beverly Smith is about Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota
  • How to Become a Movie Star by Jean Muir
  • Security by Walter Lippmann with drawings by F.R. Gruger
  • Valley of Life by Thomas Sugrue
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial: Reverence
  • “The Things I’ve Always Wanted to Do” – Contest Winners
  • Screentime by Roger B. Whitman
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Who’s Next? – Contest Announcement
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Elegant – Fred Bradna
  • Truck-Driver – Lelia Roosevelt Denis
  • Scion – Francis Biddle
  • Mystery – Leslie Ford
  • Marksman – Marion Semmelmeyer
  • Fleet – William Bonthron
  • Seahorse – Simon Lake
  • Frank – Jean Muir
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1935-04 The American Magazine Contents for April 1935

    1935/04 — Cover is a natural color photograph by C. C. Beall

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

    FICTION:

  • “Opera Hat” — Part 1 of a serial by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Admiration” by Edward Doherty and illustrated by Ronald McLeod
  • “She Dreamed of Wings” — A short short story by MacKinlay Kantor with illustration by C. C. Beall
  • “Long Cold Night” by Allan Vaughan Elston
  • “Trophy” by Barbara Webb and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Starlight Pass” — Part 5 of a serial by Tom Gill and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Preview” by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Walter Klett
  • “Peach Crop” by Ruth Burr Sanborn with the bottom half illustrated in color across the opening two pages by Norman Rockwell
  • “Never Mind the Lady” — Part 3 of a serial by David Garth and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Broken Jade” by Leonard Falkner and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Today’s the Day” by Harold Titus and illustrated by Elmore Brown
  • ARTICLES:

  • Tools of War by General Hugh S. Johnson
  • “I Want to See the President” by Marvin H. McIntyre
  • Mysterious Neighbors by Courtney Ryley Cooper and illustrated by Robert C. Gellert
  • What Labor Really Wants — Questions by Henry F. Pringle — Answers by William Green
  • Little Bum and Little Brother
  • Another Man’s Poison by Maurice Chideckel, M.D.
  • Why They get the Crowd by Paul Gallico
  • There Is No Winter by Thomas Sugrue
  • It’s All in Fun by Hubert Kelley is about Cole Porter
  • Where Accidents Don’t Happen by Jerome Beatty is about “America’s Safest City” Evanston, Illinois
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial — Pretense by Walter Hampden
  • How to Freshen Your Walls by Roger B. Whitman
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • What’s Your Pet Worry? — Contest Announcement
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Versatile – Mercedes Hill
  • Unorthodox — Marriner S. Eccles
  • Ambitious — Francesca Lamonte
  • Etcher – Levon West
  • Winner – Harold C. Urey
  • Weighty – Anderson M. Baten
  • Chief – Katherine F. Lenroot
  • Top – Cole Porter
  • Wheaties ad on back cover features small head shot of Lou Gehrig with quote from the “Iron Man of Baseball”
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: Clarence Budington Kelland, Cole Porter, norman rockwell, Ruth Burr Sanborn, The American Magazine

    1935-03 American Magazine Contents

    1935/03 — Cover is a photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston

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

    MYSTERY NOVEL:

  • Complete in this issue: “The Mystery of the Galleon Key” by Philip Wylie and illustrated by Walter Klett
  • FICTION:

  • “She Said ‘No'” by Agnes Sligh Turnbull and illustrated by John R. Holmgren
  • “Day in Spring” by Clara Wallace Overton and illustrated by C.C. Beall
  • “Uneasy Money” by Edwin Dial Torgerson and illustrated by August Bleser, Jr.
  • “Blessed Isle” by Albert Richard Wetjen and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Never Mind the Lady” — Part 2 — by David Garth and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “A Nickel’s Worth of Love” by Matt Taylor and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Not Interested” by Gerald Mygatt and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • “Scattergood Meets a Money-Player” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • “Starlight Pass” — Part 4 — by Tom Gill and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Beauty’s Daughter” — Conclusion — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “Country Doctor” by Don Marquis and illustrated by William Meade Prince
  • ARTICLES:

  • Richberg Takes the Stand — Questions by Henry F. Pringle ; Answers by Donald R. Richberg
  • Jungle Merchant by William LaVarre
  • Democracy Goes to School by Hubert Kelley
  • Budgets for the Bewildered by Jerome Beatty
  • Trader Jones by J.B. Griswold
  • We’ve Got Rhythm by William S. Dutton
  • Land of Tomorrow by Thomas Sugrue
  • The Turn to the “Right” by Walter Lippmann
  • The Race is Against Yourself by Paul Gallico
  • Three-Ring Town by Webb Waldron
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial: Understanding by Myron Taylor
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • How to Fix Old Floors by Roger B. Whitman
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Roughrider – Hope Landis
  • Bard – W.W. Christman
  • Homemaker – Lilliam M. Gilbreth
  • Trouper – Richard B. Harrison
  • Harpooner – Philip Wylie
  • Bookman – Herbert Putnam
  • Speeder – Jane Wyatt
  • Dealer – Jesse H. Jones
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1935-02 American Magazine Contents

    1935/02 — Cover is a photograph by Paul Hesse.

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

    FICTION:

  • “Never Mind the Lady” — Part I — by David Garth and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “A Midsummer Nightmare” by Howard Brubaker
  • “No Place for a Girl” by Rosamond Du Jardin and illustrated by John R. Holmgren
  • “Salt Wind” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • “Almost a Gypsy” by Konrad Bercovici and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Charlie” by Max Brand and illustrated by Herbert M. Stoops
  • “Too Much Water” by Don Marquis and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Starlight Pass” — Part III — by Tom Gill and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Enemy Agent” by F. Britten Austin and illustrated by Edw. A. Wilson
  • “The House of Darkness” by Ellery Queen and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Beauty’s Daughter” — Part V — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “Suction” by Kimball Herrick and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • ARTICLES:

  • “Youth Goes Into Action” by Hubert Kelley and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • “They Say” by Beverly Smith
  • “Bringing Up Shirley” is about Shirley Temple by her mother Gertrude Temple
  • “Mississippi Pearl” by Jerome Beatty
  • “How Fast Do You Drive?” by Sir Malcolm Campbell
  • “Taking Off the Halo” by Elizabeth Cook
  • “New Roads to Security” — Questions by Henry F. Pringle — Answers by Frances Perkins
  • “Roosevelt–Master of His Fate” by Walter Lippmann
  • “High Sun” by Thomas Sugrue
  • “Feud” by Sherwood Anderson with drawing by Ray Prohaska
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial–Drive by J.W. Studebaker
  • Are Mothers a Menace? — Contest Announcement
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • When the Lights Go Out by Roger B. Whitman
  • A Man Who Was Honest by heywood Broun
  • Castaway’s Library
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Mogul — John J. Pelley
  • Scorer — Egbert Miles Jr.
  • Harpist — Virginia Morgan
  • Trader — Mrs. Floyd B. Odlum
  • Sailor-made — E.C. Segar with his creation Popeye the Sailor
  • Lightning — S. Clay Williams
  • Sandy — Sandra Jean Burns
  • Plotter — David Garth
  • Coca-Cola ad on the back cover
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    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
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: Clarence Budington Kelland, Don Marquis, Kathleen Norris, norman rockwell, The American Magazine

    1934-11 American Magazine Contents

    1934/11 — Cover is a photograph by Paul Hesse.

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

  • “Point of Death” by Rex Stout and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • FICTION:

  • “A Tank-Town Drama – A Tink Story by Howard Brubaker and illlustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • “Divided We Fall” by Corey Ford and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Beauty’s Daughter” – Part II – by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “I Don’t Go Out With Sailors” by Ruth Burr Sanborn and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • “Hold That Note” by Matt Taylor and illustrated by Wallace Morgan
  • “The Acacia Tree” by Margaret Carpenter and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “The Girl Had Nerve” by Richard Thruelsen and illustrated by Frederick Chapman
  • “Same as Act One” by Katharine Newlin Burt and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Closed Room” – Part IV – by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan and George Howe
  • “Three Were Left” by Borden Chase and illustrated by Frank B. Hoffman
  • “Tigress in Gingham” by Virginia Paxton and illustrated by Walter Klett
  • ARTICLES:

  • “Who’s On the Payroll” by James A. Farley
  • “Fellow Citizens, I Love You” is a poem by Ogden Nash with drawings by Rea Irvin
  • “Months After Sundown” by Charles J.V. Murray and illustrated by Charles Kaiser
  • “The Corn Planting” by Sherwood Anderson
  • “Everybody Wants to Be An Actor” by William Corbin
  • “Hero Poison” by Paul Gallico
  • “The Next Step in the New Deal” by Walter Lippmann
  • “Medicine Man” by John W. Vandercook is about Dr. Sylvester M. Lambert
  • “Shine ’em Up!” by Roger B. Whitman
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial–Progress by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
  • Fast Ones by W.E. Farbstein
  • Speaking of Men–and of Women by Eleanor Early
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Fogbreaker — Henry G. Houghton, Jr.
  • Homemaker — Milborn L. Wilson
  • Champs — Marion Lloyd and Dorothy Locke
  • Angler — Helen Jepson
  • Highbrow — Isabel Ebel
  • Scattergood — Thomas J. Neary
  • String-puller — Sue Hastings
  • Ruralist — Sherwood Anderson
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Heinz Tomato Ketchup on the inside front cover, Ripley Believe it or Not cartoon for Parker Pens, Prudential, Ivory Flakes, Campbell’s Soups, Camel Cigarettes, and a Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1934-10 American Magazine Contents

    1934/10 — Cover is a photograph by Paul Hesse

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

  • “Beauty’s Daughter” — Part 1 — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “Ten O’Clock House” by Matt Taylor and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “…and Son” by I.A.R. Wylie and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “Uncle’s in the Headlines” by Leona Dalrymple and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • Pie Supper by Rose Wilder Lane and illustrated by John R. Holmgren
  • “The Closed Room” — Part 3 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Tonight in Person” by Corey Ford and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Mansion on the Cliff” by Leonard Falkner and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Last Love” by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by Ronald McLeod
  • “Joy Cometh” by Margaret Carpenter and illustrated by August Bleser, Jr.
  • “Smoke” by Karl Detzer and illustrated by Harry L. Timmins
  • “Jordan Running Red” by R.G. Kirk and illustrated by Rico Tomaso
  • ARTICLES:

  • Thinking Out Loud! by Henry Ford
  • Panic Over Hollywood by Henry F. Pringle
  • Strange Shores by Thomas Sugrue
  • We Vote on the New Deal by Frank R. Kent
  • Bigger Than Politics by Beverly Smith is about Robert Moses
  • Halt by Colonel Daniel W. MacCormack and illustrated by John E. Sheridan
  • 35 Feet of Freedom by Peter Barber
  • The Man Behind by Paul Gallico
  • With $2,000 to Spend by Roger B. Whitman
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial: Democracy by Arthur E. Morgan
  • Fast Ones by W.E. Farbstein
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Its Smart to be Natural by Ransom Beckwith
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Baker – J.E. Humphreys
  • Miner – Josephine Roche
  • Handyman – Donald R. Richberg
  • Hat Tilter – Arthur C. Willard
  • Meteor – Hildegarde Sells
  • Lamplighter – Matthew Luckiesh
  • Youth – Thomas H. Eliot
  • Sonneteer – Ogden Nash
  • Color ad for Coca-Cola “The pause that refreshes…directed by Lubitsch” pictures Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald with Ernst Lubitsch in MGM’s “The Merry Widow”
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1934-09 American Magazine Contents

    1934/09 — Cover is a photograph by F. Alden Weeks.

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

  • “The Saint in New York” by Leslie Charteris and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Love Leaves Town” by James Gould Cozzens and illustrated by O.F. Schmidt
  • “The Closed Room — Part II — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe and Paul Meylan
  • “One-Man Cat” by Courtney Ryley Cooper and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “We’ll Bring the Jubilee” by MacKinlay Kantor and illustrated by Edmund F. Ward
  • “Here’s Your Hat!” by Margaret Widdemer and illustrated by John R. Holmgren
  • “There Was a Woman” by Katharine Havilland-Taylor
  • “Highway Robbery” by Albert Treynor and illustrated by Robert O. Reid
  • “Volcano” by R.G. Kirk and illustrated by C. Peter Helck
  • “Men Are So Simple” by Helen Hadakin and illustrated by Walter Klett
  • “Calm Yourself” — Conclusion by Edward Hope and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Quarry” by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by August Bleser, Jr.
  • ARTICLES:

  • “Editorial — Patience” by Archibald Rutledge
  • “What’s Blocking Recovery?” by Thomas F. Woodlock
  • “Kingdom of Riddles” by Thomas Sugrue
  • “Why We Still Have Strikes” Questions by Henry Pringle and Answers by Senator Wagner
  • “The Man from Space” by Hubert Kelley is about Albert Einstein
  • “Spendthrift Millions” by Stanley Walker
  • “Babes in the Woods” by William Corbin
  • “Anything for a Laugh” by W.C. Fields
  • “Guardians of a Crime” by Jerome Beatty
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Fast Ones by W.E. Farbstein
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Can I Afford to Be Popular? — Contest Winners
  • Anything Wrong at Home? by Roger B. Whitman
  • What the Readers Say
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Stratospherer — Albert W. Stevens
  • Tough — Harry H. Bennett
  • Warden — Edith Stoeher
  • Beautician — Edward Bruce
  • Ramona
  • Good Scout — Josephine Schain
  • Driver — Lou Little
  • Juggler — Albert Einstein
  • Camel Cigarettes ad featuring Olympic Diver Georgia Coleman on the back cover
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1934-06 American Magazine Contents

    1934/06 — Cover is a natural-color photograph by F. Alden Weeks

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

    ARTICLES:

  • Editorial by Deems Taylor
  • Does It Pay to Be Honest?
  • The President’s Mail Bag! by Louis McHenry Howe
  • Foot-Loose by Thomas Sugrue
  • The Unbeatable Game by Thomas F. Woodlock
  • Millions for a Mug by Jack Lawrence
  • It’s Funny About My Face by Wallace Beery
  • About the New Deal by George E. Sokolsky
  • Aw–Let’s Play Bridge by Edwin Victor Westrate
  • I Took on the Champs by Henry McLemore
  • Justice Cracks the Whip by Jerome Beatty
  • Your Chance of Getting Married by Louis I. Dublin
  • FICTION:

  • Calm Yourself — Part 1 by Edward Hope and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • Flare by David Garth and illustrated by August Blesser, Jr.
  • The Downey Peach by Don Marquis and illustrated by Robert O’Reid
  • A Matter of Shoes by Leona Dalrymple and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • Hope’s Diamond by Howard Brubaker and illustrated by Frederic Mizer
  • Some Bums Are Nice by Margaret Craven and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • No More Tears by James Aswell and illustrated Roy Spreter
  • Synthetic Gentleman — Part 5 by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Jules Gotlieb
  • Merchant Princess — Part 3 — by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by August Bleser, Jr.
  • Happy Ending by Patterson McNutt and illustrated by Norman Mingo
  • INTERSTING PEOPLE:

  • Glorifier: Walter Dorwin Teague
  • Smooth: Fred Waring
  • Scuptor: Malvina Hoffman
  • Star-Gazer: Harlow Shapley
  • Teller: Marion Glass Banister
  • Porpoise: Lenore Kight
  • Woodsman: Ferdinand A. Silcox
  • Softie: Wallace Beery
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Contest Winners
  • A School of 10,000 Chances by Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • Fast Ones by W.E. Farbstein
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Words, Words, Words by Lawrence M. Conant
  • Anything Wrong at Home? by Roger B. Whitman
  • Oswald K. Blemish, M.M.
  • What the Readers Say
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1934-05 American Magazine Contents

    1934/05 — Cover design by Roy Spreter.

    Complete contents from the contents page is as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • “Youth” by Christian Gauss
  • “Babes in the Woods” by Beverly Smith and illustrated by Rico Tomaso
  • “American Adventures” by Konrad Bercovici
  • “A Prayer for All Mothers” by Lloyd C. Douglas
  • “The Making of a Movie Star” by Margaret Sullavan
  • “Up and Down” by J. Robley Tucker
  • “Fishes Like Neckties” by Louis H. Cook with color illustration spanning two pages by Norman Rockwell
  • “Out of the Fog” by Thomas F. Woodlock with drawing by George Howe
  • “Closing in on the Kidnappers” by Courney Ryley Cooper and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Always Gloom at the Top” by Paul Gallico
  • FICTION:

  • “The Strangled Witness” by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Harry L. Timmins
  • “Person to Person” by Stanley Paul and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • “Merchant Princess” — Part II — by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by August Blesser, Jr.
  • “Cape Horn Diploma” by Peter B. Kyne and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Outside World” by Robert Carse and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “The Hunt” by Agnes Sligh Turnbull and illustrated by Arthur Palmer
  • “A Piece of String” is a Scattergood Baines story by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Robert C. Gellert
  • “The Chipmunk Kid” by Matt Taylor and illustrated by Harry Beckhoff
  • “Synthetic Gentleman” — Part IV — by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Jules Gotlieb
  • “Faith” by Sigman Byrd and illustrated by Norman Price
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Dynamo — Harry L. Hopkins
  • Kingmaker — Otto Soglow
  • “Excelsior!” — Georgia Engelhard
  • Trainer — John Benson
  • Leader — Milo Reno
  • Flash — Dr. Harold E. Edgerton and Kenneth J. Germeshausen
  • Politician — Josephine Sterling
  • Publishers — William and Charles Marsh
  • Maid-to-Order — Margaret Sullavan
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Fast Ones by Henry Wysham Lanier
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Your Son’s the Better Man by J.B. Griswold
  • Oswald K. Blemish, M.M. by H.T. Webster
  • What the Readers Say
  • Index to Advertisers
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Pabst Blue Ribbon with color illustration, Ivory Soap, Camel Cigarettes featuring Big Bill Tilden, Chevrolet for 1934, Mae West for Lux Toilet Soap, Keds*, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1934-04 American Magazine Contents

    1934/04 — Cover design by Bradshaw Crandell.

    Complete contents from the contents page is as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • “Friendship” by Don Marquis
  • “Big Business Men of Tomorrow” by Walter Lippmann and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • “In the Name of the Law” by Michael F. Pinto
  • “Perfect Ending” by John Janney
  • “New Prey for the Racketeers” by Courtney Ryley Cooper and illustrated by Herbert Ruese
  • “Bargains in Babies” by Helen Washburn
  • “LIving in a Goldfish Bowl” by Westbrook Pegler
  • “Even the Birds” by Frances Dugan
  • FICTION:

  • “Merchant Princess” part 1 by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by August Bleser, Jr.
  • “The Man Who Limped” by Leonard Falkner and illustrated by Dan Content
  • “Gallant Insults” by David Garth and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Reunion in Hollywood” by Patterson McNutt with full-color illustration in water color by Norman Mingo
  • “Three Easter Bonnets” by Maxine McBride with full color illustrations in water color by Ray Prohaska
  • “Foreign Matter” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Robert C. Gellert
  • “Hard-Boiled Eggs” by Howard Brubaker and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • “Men Are Not Neccessary” by Elizabeth Troy
  • “Synthetic Gentleman” part 3 by Channing Pollack and illustrated by Jules Gotlieb
  • “The Sea Remembers” by Gordon Melherbe Hillman and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Three Men and Diana” last installment by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • “Someone Listened” by Katherine Haviland-Taylor and illustrated by J.M. Clement
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Ichthyologist — Helen Morgan
  • Wonder – Ruth Slenczynski
  • Battler — Charles E. Coughlin
  • Farmer — George Frederick Warren
  • Twirler — Carl Hubbell
  • Soarer — Jack O’Meara
  • Traveler — Eve Alexander
  • Muralist — Lillian Gaertner Palmedo
  • Ad Man
  • Genius — Eugene O’Neill
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Daughter Speaks Out
  • Anything Wrong at Home? by Roger B. Whitman
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Fast Ones by Henry Wysham Lanier
  • Why be Honest?
  • How the Wild Things Play by Archibald Rutledge
  • Oswald K. Blemish, M.M. by H.T. Webster
  • What the Readers Say
  • Index to Advertisers
  • “I’ll Say It’s the Way to Start in the Morning” Coca-Cola ad
  • Budweiser ad with Uncle Sam sitting on a globe with representatives of other nations toasting
  • Wheaties ad featuring a small photo of Jimmie Foxx on the back cover
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1934-03 American Magazine Contents

    1934/03 — Cover design by Louis Fancher

    Complete contents from the contents page is as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • Character by Emil Ludwig
  • HIstory on Roller Skates by Beverly Smith
  • What Party Now? by Frank R. Kent
  • Strange Meetings by Konrad Bercovici
  • Ball-Players by Marriage by Westbrook Pegler
  • Behind the Scenes with the President by Louis McHenry Howe
  • What Interests People by Jerome Beatty
  • I’m Glad It’s Over!
  • They’ve Got a Grip on the Future by Webb Waldron
  • How Much Do You Weight? by Louis I. Dublin
  • Can America Keep Out of the Next War? by John Strachey
  • FICTION:

  • “Eyes at the Window” by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Snow Queen” by Maxine McBride and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Sun Drunk” by J.P. McEvoy and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “The Last Strike” by Peter B. Kyne and illustrated by Frank B. Hoffman
  • “Synthetic Gentleman” — Part 3 — by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Jules Gotlieb
  • “Frisco Clipper” by F. Britten Austin and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “For Tomorrow” by Robert Carse and illustrated by Edmund F. Ward
  • “Light-O’-Love” by Mary Derieux and illustrated by August Bleser, Jr.
  • “Three Men and Diana” — Part 6 — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • “Young, Single, and Curious” by Patterson McNutt and illustrated by Elmore Brown
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Fencers: Miguel and Jose De Capriles
  • Rebel: Robert M. Hutchins
  • Cryptographer: Elizabeth Smith Friedman
  • Major-domo: Raymond D. Muir
  • Tidbit: Michael Edward Tibbett
  • U.S.D.A.: Thomas E. Dewey
  • Brainy: Felix Frankfurter
  • Rip: Robert L. Ripley
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Fast Ones by Henry Wysham Lanier
  • New Contest Announcement
  • The Wild Things Do Not Spare the Rod by Archibald Rutledge
  • What the Readers Say
  • Index to Advertisers
  • Wheaties ad on inside front cover with tiny photo of pitchman Babe Ruth
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1934-02 American Magazine Contents

    1934/02 — Cover design by Bradshaw Crandell.

    Complete contents from the contents page is as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • “Vision” by Will Durant
  • “The Mystery of Gold” by Thomas F. Woodlock with drawing by Stuart Hay
  • “Bottoms Up–For Good” by Westbrook Pegler with drawings by F.G. Cooper
  • “Leaves From a Doctor’s Diary” by Maurice Chideckel, M.D.
  • “The Man Who Chased the Tiger” by Henry F. Pringle is about Fiorello LaGuardia
  • “A Young Man Speaks His Mind” A Letter from J.W. with drawing by George Howe
  • “How the Wild Things Teach Their Young” by Archibald Rutledge with drawing by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Uncle Sam Grows Younger” by Beverly Smith
  • “Brains Against Bullets” by J. Edgar Hoover and illustrated by Winold Reiss
  • FICTION:

  • “Synthetic Gentleman” part 1 by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Jules Gotlieb
  • “A Harper Never Fails” by Everett Rhodes Castle and illustrated by Weldon Trench
  • “The Earl’s Moustache” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Robert C. Gellert
  • “Education of a Lady” by D.K. Findlay and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Death Rides the Mesa” last installment by Tom Gill and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Young Man River” by Howard Brubaker
  • “Love Must Be Shipshape” by Elizabeth Troy and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Up in the Air” by Harold Titus and illustrated by Frank B. Hoffman
  • “The Hank Party” by Edward M. Barrows and illustrated by O.F. Schmidt
  • “On Such a Night” by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by Charles Kaiser
  • “Three Men and Diana” part 5 by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • “High Seize” by Octavus Roy Cohen and illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Ambassador — William C. Bullitt
  • Designer — Gilbert Adrian
  • Congresswoman — Isabella Greenway
  • Versatile — Do You Know Him?
  • Shaf — Carolyn Kay Schafer
  • Mother LL.D. — Mrs. Elias Compton
  • Good Sport — Frank Boucher
  • Vandy — Mary Vanderbilt Cape
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • New Contest Announcement
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Oswald K. Blemish, M.M. by H.T. Webster
  • Fast Ones by Henry Wysham Lanier
  • What the Readers Say
  • Index to Advertisers
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1934-01 American Magazine Contents

    1934/01 — Cover design by Herbert Paus

    Complete contents from the contents page is as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • Behind the Guns of Crime by Courtney Ryley Cooper and illustrated by John E. Sheridan
  • 1934’s Challenge to the New Deal by Thomas F. Woodlock
  • Of the People by Morris Markey
  • The Farmer’s On Your Payroll by George N. Peek as told to Beverly Smith
  • The Private Who Didn’t Salute by Patterson McNutt
  • I’m Afraid of What You’ll Think by Edgar Carroll
  • Ozarkadia by Charles Morrow Wilson
  • His Job is Untangling the Rails by John Janney
  • I’ve Still Got a Tank of Gas by Archie Chadbourne
  • FICTION:

  • “Motives of an Overlord” by Ernest Haycox and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Wives Must Eat!” by Francis Sill Wickware and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • “Buzz the Bullfrog” by Beverly Smith and illustrated by Marshall Frantz
  • “Paris Adventure”, a story about Simon Templar, the Saint, by Leslie Charteris and illustrated by Samuel N. Abbott
  • “Glamour” by Rosamond Du Jardin and illustrated by Joseph Conde
  • “Smart Girls Don’t” by Helen Rhees and illustrated by Warren Baumgartner
  • “Three Men and Diana” — Part 4 — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • “A Dog’s Hind Legs” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Robert Gellert
  • “Death Rides the Mesa” — Part 5 — by Tom Gill and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Senator – Thomas D. Schall
  • Winner – Marye C. Hicks
  • Commuter – Louis S. Ritter
  • Dynamic – Lucrezia Bori
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Patterpics
  • IT Takes All Kinds by A.B.
  • Oswald K. Blemish, M.M. by H.T. Webster
  • You’d Be Surprised–
  • Brave Old World by Archibald Rutledge
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1933-10 American Magazine Contents

    1933/10 — Cover design by Andrew Loomis

    Complete contents from the contents page is as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • Spending Three Billions of Your Money! by Harold L. Ickes
  • John Harvard’s Biggest Boy by John R. Tunis is about James Bryant Conant
  • They Put Me in Jail for Singing by Lawrence Tibbett
  • I Have Six More Lives to Live by Louis Cook
  • Pinch Hitter for Presidents by Beverly Smith is about Bernard Baruch
  • He Quit His Job; Took a Train by Webb Waldron
  • So You Want to Go on the Stage by John Golden
  • Where Does Football Go from Here? by Edwin B. Dooley
  • Our Rolling Million by Morris Markey
  • What’s In Your Hand? by Nellie Simmons Meier is about palmistry
  • You Can’t Make Me Mad by W.O. Saunders
  • FICTION:

  • “Three Men and Diana” — Part 1 — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • “Mr. Mumpus!” by Matt Taylor and illustrated by John R. Holmgren
  • “Death Rides the Mesa” — Part 2 — by Tom Gill and illustrated by Harold von Schmidt
  • “Bath of Glory” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Edward L. Chase
  • “Always the Fraziers” by Karl Detzer and illustrated by Harvey Dunn
  • “Take a Walk” by Ring Lardner and illustrated by C.D. Williams
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Princess: Louise Robert
  • Carillonist: Kamiel Felix Lefevere
  • Equestrienne: Doris Dawley
  • Boop-a-Dooper: Marjorie Hines
  • Tree-Planter: Everard S. Keithley
  • Jumper: Joe Crane
  • Persistent: Louis Michiel Eilshemius
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • “Salt of the Earth” a poem by Arthur Guiterman
  • The Family Problem discussed by Elizabeth A. Smith
  • Oswald K. Blemish, M.M. by H.T. Webster
  • It Takes All Kinds by W.S.
  • Patterpics – A New Game
  • You’d Be Surprised by Joe Williams
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1933-09 American Magazine Contents

    1933/09 — Cover design by Martha Sawyers and Diana Thorne.

    Complete contents from the contents page is as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • The Second Reconstruction by Walter Lippmann with illustration by Rollin Kirby
  • Johnny Goodman–Wham-ditty! by Albert F. Wolf is about 1933 U.S. Open golf champion, Goodman
  • He Can Change the Size of Your Paycheck by Beverly Smith is about General Hugh S. Johnson
  • A Rich Man Who Gets His Money’s Worth by J.B. Griswold is about Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green
  • Then Along Came Twins by Lawrence Tibbett
  • How Long Will You Live? by Dr. Louis I. Dublin
  • Shall We Train Our Sons for Public Office? by Will Durant
  • A Jonah Who Swallowed the Whale by Henry F. Pringle is about Sam Zemurray
  • “My Colonel’s” Lady by Archibald Rutledge
  • Did I Meet You at the Fair? by Jerome Beatty
  • What Are You Worth in Business? by Fred Telford
  • FICTION:

  • “Death Rides the Mesa” — Part I — by Tom Gill and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Hello, Dangerous!” by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by Joseph Simont
  • “Lulabel the Lulu” by Nunnally Johnson and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Wedding Gift” by Courtney Ryley Cooper and illustrated by J.W. Schlaikjer
  • “A Good Desert Island Companion” by Maxine McBride and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “The Man Who Liked Toys” by Leslie Charteris and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “Star Magic” — Last Installment — by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • SHORT FEATURES:
    Interesting People:

  • Author — Tom Gill
  • Trader — Eleanor Verande
  • Annapolis — Rear Admiral Thomas Charles Hart
  • West Point — Major General William D. Connor
  • Fixer — Katharine Bleecker Meigs
  • Jehu — Benjamin Solomon
  • Scout — Marian Stephenson
  • Sparkplug — Lou Gehrig
  • Prodigy — Adolf A. Berle, Jr.
  • Prize Winners — June Contest
  • You’d Be Surprised by Joe Williams
  • The Family Problem discussed by Burr Blackburn
  • Oswald K. Blemish, M.M. by H.T. Webster
  • It Takes All Kinds
  • Patterpics — A New Game
  • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: “Don’t Trump your Partner’s Ace” ad from Coca-Cola, “Good-bye, Blues!” ad from Ivory Soap, Budweiser ad with colorful illustration.

    Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1933-08 American Magazine Contents

    1933/08 — Cover illustrated by Bradshaw Crandell

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

    ARTICLES:

  • Along the Glory Road by Lawrence Tibbett
  • Passing Out the Patronage by James A. Farley
  • Getting the Jump on Crime by Courtney Ryley Cooper is about the United States Bureau of Investigation and opens with a half-page photo of young J. Edgar Hoover
  • “She’s Doing Her Own Work’ by Agnes Sligh Turnbull and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • I Have 7,000,000 Neighbors by Alfred E. Smith with drawing by Joseph Golinkin
  • Have You Really Learned to Talk? by Vida Sutton
  • An Ironmaster Tackles Today’s Biggest Puzzle by John T. Flynn
  • Who’s to Blame–Machines or Men? by Ernest T. Weir
  • Faith by George A. Moreno as told to Helen Christine Bennett
  • Boss of Muscle Shoals by Webb Waldron
  • FICTION:

  • The Lady Liked Emeralds by Frederick C. Painton and illustrated by Harry L. Timmins
  • In Any Emergency by Eustace L. Adams and illustrated by Karl Godwin
  • Eddie Mows the Lawn by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • A King in Caribbea — A Novelette Complete in This Issue by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by J.W. Schlaikjer
  • Star Magic — Part 5 — by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • Davy Meets the World by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • 13 for Dinner — Last Installment of a Serial by Agatha Christie and illustrated by Welden Trench
  • INTERSTING PEOPLE:

  • Sistie: Anna Eleanor Dall
  • Champion: John Collier
  • Contender: Maureen Orcutt
  • Dean: William B. Gibson
  • Friend: Molly Keatly
  • Safe-Cracker: Charles Courtney
  • Mrs. Grundy: Alice-Leone Moats
  • Puppeteer: Harry Burnett
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • You’d Be Surprised by Joe Williams
  • Patterpics – A New Game
  • It Takes All Kinds by W.S.
  • Oswald K. Blemish, M.M. by H.T. Webster
  • N.E.C.’s Problem – Discussed by Crosby Field
  • Prize Winner May Contest
  • The Meeting Place
  • Back cover features a Wheaties ad with a 6 panel comic strip starring Babe Ruth — “No More Breakfast Coaxing – How Wheaties and BABE RUTH’S FREE Home Run Moviebook Turned the Trick
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1933-07 American Magazine Contents

    1933/07 — Cover design by J. Knowles Hare

    Complete contents from the contents page is as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • Dependable Money by Walter Lippman
  • Shall We Get Rid of the Family? by Margaret Weymouth Jackson
  • The Bobby Jones of Science by Jerome Beatty is about Elihu Thomson
  • That’s the Dog for Me! by Diana Thorne
  • A Billion Dollars a Year! by Schuyler C. Wallace
  • What!–No Chorus Girls? by Henry F. Pringle
  • It Must Be the Climate by Ursula Parrott
  • Why Don’t You Go on the Stage? by Neil M. Clark
  • A Stone That Rolled Uphill by John Janney
  • Go to It, Kid! Show ’em What You Can Do! by Beverly Smith
  • I Couldn’t Raise My Boy Without a Hairbrush
  • Safeguarding Your Money by Frank A. Vanderlip
  • Good Listeners Are Always in Demand by Archibald Rutledge
  • We Need a Bigger Crime Net by Edward P. Mulrooney
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • The Family Problem – Discussed by Dr. Gertrude P. Driscoll
  • The Meeting Place
  • FICTION:

  • “The Clown Who Couldn’t Laugh” by Robert Carse and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Backfire” by Phil Strong and illustrated by J.M. Clement
  • “Star Magic” — Part 4 — by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “She Said What She Meant” by Mary C. McCall, Jr. and illustrated by H.R. Ballinger
  • “Head Over Heels in Love” by Leonard Falkner and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “13 For Dinner” — Part 5 — by Agatha Christie and illustrated by Weldon Trench
  • “The Old Maids’ Daughter” by Edmund Ware
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Perfect – Jane Youngson
  • Idor – Alfredo Cadona
  • Hunter – William H. Caywood
  • Counselor – Sylvia Deane
  • Inventor – Commander Paul H. Macneil
  • Artist – Lester Gaba
  • Talker – Ted Husing
  • Composer – Jerome Kern
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

    1933-06 American Magazine Contents

    1933/06 — Cover design by Herbert Paus

    Complete contents from the contents page is as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • Balanced Government — The Next Step by Louis McHenry Howe
  • He Went Out and Did It by J.B. Griswold
  • Courage by George A. Moreno and illustrated by Karl Godwin
  • He’s Got HIs Hand in Your Pocket – A Glimpse of Louis Douglas, Budget Director, by Morris Markey
  • Mother of the Smiths by Loraine Carr
  • A Shipbuilding Who Brought A Dead Town to Life about Pete Newell by Florence Haxton Britten
  • Valedictory — Class of 1933 by J.P. McEvoy
  • Why I Quit My Pulpit by Dr. Lloyd Cassel Douglas
  • 900,000 Callers a Year! by Ava Long
  • Business Where It Wasn’t by Leonard Falkner
  • I Used to Be a Business Man by Peter B. Kyne
  • Why Marriages Go Wrong by Emmet Crozier
  • Shall We Have a Dictator? by General John J. Pershing
  • When Youth Takes the Reins in Politics by Jerome Beatty
  • SHORT FEATURES:

  • My Problem – Should I Go Over the Boss’s Head?
  • The Meeting Place – Prize Winners and Announcement
  • FICTION:

  • “I Can’t Marry A Poor Man” by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by John R. Holmgren
  • “The Grandfather Merger” by D.K. Findlay and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Star Magic” — Part 3 — by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “The River” by Arthur Mason and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “His One Big Moment” by Anne Forsythe and illustrated by J.W. Schlaikjer
  • “13 For Dinner” — Part 4 — by Agatha Christie and illustrated by Weldon Trench
  • “Down the Mountain” by Courtney Ryley Cooper and illustrated by C. Peter Helck
  • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Merchant – Mary Lewis
  • Whole Show – Dorothy Sands
  • Governor – Wilbur L. Cross
  • Artist – Muriel Robinson
  • Financier – Frederick H Prince
  • Pickpocket – Giovanni
  • President – F. Trubee Davison
  • Writer – Dr. Lloyd Cassel Douglas
  • Filed Under: American Tagged With: The American Magazine

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