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1939-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/11 —

  • After Many a Summer — Part 1 — by Aldous Huxley
  • Broadcasting the Outbreak of War by Elmer Davis
  • Koussevitzky, Toscanini, Stokowski by Oscar Levant
  • The Industrial Revolution Hits the Farmer by Peter F. Drucker
  • “Light” — A poem by Hermann Hagedorn
  • “Seal Tregarthen’s Cousin” — A story by Margery Sharp
  • Since Yesterday — Part 1 — by Frederick Lewis Allen
  • American Military and Foreign Policies by George Fielding Eliot
  • Lady in the Shoe by Anonymous
  • The Control of Pain by George W. Gray
  • Gobble and Turk by William Beebe
  • Bombing Cities Won’t Win the War by James Warner Bellah
  • “The Going Forth” — A poem by Conrad Aiken
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/10 —

  • Old People: A Rising National Problem by Roy Helton
  • Roosevelt, the Rich Man’s Alibi by Elmer Davis
  • “The Strange Noise of Dr. Beldoon” — A story by Morris Markey
  • “Lost World” — A poem by Hermann Hagedorn
  • How the Wright Brothers Began by Fred C. Kelly
  • “Surmise” — A poem by Roland English Hartley
  • The Future of the British Empire by C. Harley Grattan
  • Why Can’t We Have Perfect Teeth? by Walter C. Alvarez, M.D.
  • Conscience in Wartime by Lucille B. Milner and Groff Conklin
  • Great Hawaii by Leonard Bacon

  • Why Slum Clearance May Fail by Alfred Rheinstein and Henry F. Pringle
  • Music in Aspic by Oscar Levant
  • In Defense of Ghost Writing by Seneca Johnson
  • The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Flexner
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/09 —

  • Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels by Charles A. Beard
  • Two Sonnets to Ourselves by Barclay Hall

  • Foreign Trade Begins at Home by John Chamberlain
  • Making Friends With Latin America by Hubert Herring
  • What England and France Think About Us by Frank C. Hanighen
  • “From Usually Reliable Sources” by Morris Gilbert
  • What We Think About Foreign Affairs by Francis Sill Wickware
  • What the Home Folks Say About Events Abroad by Richard L. Neuberger
  • Champion Ex-Champion by Myron M. Stearns is about Jack Dempsey
  • “Mr. Hata Pulls the Strings” — A story by Charles Corbeau
  • Number One Swing Man by Irving Kolodin
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/08 —

  • The Return of Johnny Appleseed by Charles Allen Smart
  • “Futility at Dawn” — A poem by Elford Caughey
  • “Brigham and Amelia” — A story by Vardis Fisher
  • A Prize Fighter in the Nineties by Edmund Rucker
  • Seascape with Figures by Leonard Bacon
  • Storm Center in Brookline by Louis Untermeyer
  • “The Presbyterian Choir Singers” — A story by William Saroyan
  • “In Time of Crisis” — A poem by Paul Engle
  • Eating Through Africa by Eugene Wright
  • As I Remember Groton School by george Biddle
  • “The Marple Legend” — A story by Vincent Sheean
  • “Mountain Meadows” — A poem by Martha Keller
  • 579 Miles an Hour, Vertically by James L.H. Peck
  • “Go Talk to Mr. Waring” — A story by Pilip Curtiss
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/07 —

  • Germany Would Lose by Willson Woodside
  • America’s Gunpowder Women by Pearl S. Buck
  • “They Required of Us a Song” — A story by Ralph Bates
  • Wall Street, Main Street, & Co. by S.H. Walker and Julia Riera
  • Lessons in Living from the Stone Age by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • Totalitarian “Prosperity” by Wilhelm Ropke
  • A Number of the People — Part 3 — by Sir Edward Marsh
  • “Spade Song” — A poem by Gilbert Maxwell

  • The Law Factories by Ferdinand Lundberg
  • World’s Fair, New York by Gardner Harding
  • “At the Spa” — A story by Marjorie Worthington
  • “I Think That There Is Laughter” — A poem by Robert Avrett
  • Science and the New Landscape by Paul B. Sears
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/06 —

  • Debt Threatens Democracy by Roy Helton
  • Europe’s Secret Nightmare by Henry C. Wolfe
  • “The Birthday” — A story by Thomas Wolfe

  • “In the Night” — A poem by Robert Nathan
  • Why France Trusts England by Andre Maurois
  • “Beauty Is Earth’s Immortal Carelessness” — A poem by Andrerson M. Scruggs
  • Fascism for America – Threat or Scarehead? by Lillian Symes
  • What Business Kills by Carl Dreher
  • A Number of People — Part 2 — by Sir Edward Marsh
  • Socrates Crosses the Delaware by Milton S. Mayer
  • Elephants of the Sea by William Beebe
  • “Winter World” — A poem by Josephine Johnson
  • “Barn Burning” — A Story by William Faulkner
  • The Shakespeare Industry by Ivor Brown
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/05 —

  • The End of Economic Man in Europe by Peter F. Drucker
  • A Number of People — Recollections of London Society in the Gay Nineties — Part 1 — by Sir Edward Marsh
  • From a Town in a State of Siege — A Sequence of Five Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Where England Stands by J.B. Priestley
  • Atalanta in Cape Fair — A Story by Jessie Rehder
  • Patterns for Living Together by Raymond Pearl
  • Anxiety and Illness by George W. Gray
  • Democracy’s Crisis in France by Herve Schwedersky – John McJennett
  • Freedom, Radio and the FCC by Merrill Denison
  • Charles A. Beard — Freelance Among the Historians — by Hubert Herring
  • The Hidden Valley — A poem by Craig Rice
  • Salvaging Culture for the WPA by Mabel S. Ulrich
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/04 —

  • Wanted: A Sane Defense Policy by Oswald Garrison Villiard
  • No More Excursions! by C. Hartley Grattan
  • Courage for Tomorrow by Avis D. Carlson
  • “Anschluss” — A Story by Kay Boyle
  • Music Goes Into Mass Production by Dickson Skinner
  • “Hymn Before Night” — A Poem by Martha Keller
  • When Grandfather Ran Off With the Tartar Girl by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
  • “Simple Farewell” — A poem by Conrad Aiken
  • Some Facts About Jews by Philip S. Bernstein
  • The Strange Story of the Great Eastern by Francis Rowsome
  • The Priesthood of the Law by Ferdinand Lundberg
  • Hell’s Canyon, the Biggest of All by Richard L. Neuberger
  • On Not Being Dead, As Reported by Elmer Davis
  • Hutchins of Chicago — Part 2 — by Milton S. Mayer
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/03 —

  • In An Era of Unreason by Nathaniel Peffer
  • Hutchins of Chicago — part 1 — by Milton S. Mayer
  • Efim and the Tartar Horses – A Chronicle of Siberian Childhood – by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
  • Sonnet – A poem by Elizabeth Sampson Hoopes
  • American Women Are Coming Along by Grace Adams
  • Doing Business in Germany by Gunther Reimann
  • Setter and Terrier — A story by Preston Quadland
  • Sulfanilamide by John Pfeiffer
  • New Tools for Democracy by Peter Van Dresser
  • What Has Happened to Housing? by Thomas Humphries
  • Teaching at Berkeley — In the University of California, 1910-1923 – by Leonard Bacon
  • Seattle, Washington — Part 2 — by George R. Leighton
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/02 —

  • The Emperor of Japan by John Gunther
  • “Rebel” — A poem by Josephine Johnson
  • The Social Security “Reserve” Swindle by John T. Flynn
  • Literary Conference by Leonard Bacon
  • Before Hitler Crosses the Atlantic by Henry C. Wolfe
  • “Silver Virgin” — A story by Benedict Thielen
  • “Night in Paradise” — A poem by Martha Bacon
  • The Wisconsin Brothers by Elmer Davis
  • Evelyn the Truck Driver by Leland Stone
  • Labor’s Two Houses by Edward Levinson
  • Black Money – How Cash Is Smuggled Out of Germany — by Martin Proctor
  • Too Many Squirrels by Ezra J. Poulsen
  • Seattle, Washington — Part 1 — by George R. Leighton
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/01 —

  • England Moves Toward Fascism by Eliot Janeway
  • “What Have I?” — A story by Ruth Suckow
  • “Would Miss Tarbell See Mr. Rogers?” by Ida M. Tarbell
  • Can Germany Win the Balkans by Peter F. Drucker
  • “Traumerei” — A story by Charles Cooke
  • The TVA and the Utilities by Richard Hellman
  • The Blackest Night — In a Sussex Village, September 27-30, 1938, by Eugene and Arline Lohrke
  • The Bacons and the Hazards by Leonard Bacon
  • The Strange Ways of Allergy by George W. Gray
  • New England Hurricane by John Q. Stewart
  • Forty-Third Division — Part 2 — A story by Ralph Bates
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1938-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1938/12 —

  • The Legal Profession by Ferdinand Lundberg
  • “Holy Morning” — A Story by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • “God’s Barn” — Poems by Winifred Welles
  • The Road to Munich by Willson Woodside
  • The Road from Munich by Elmer Davis
  • Forty-Third Division — Part 1 — by Ralph Bates
  • King of Kings — The Shah of Iran, Which Used to Be Persia — by John Gunther
  • $230,000,000 for Toys by Weldon Melick
  • The Defense of America by George Fielding Eliot
  • Just How Stupid Are Juries? by Anonymous
  • Grandmother Smith’s Plantation — Part 2 — by John A. Rice
  • Ask for It Not Again — A poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • These Public-Opinion Polls by Jerome H. Spingarn
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop Section
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1938-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1938/09 —

  • China and Japan : Second Year by Nathaniel Peffer
  • Boats for Hire — A Story by Bucklin Moon
  • Morgan and Morgan and Lilienthal by Willson Whitman
  • Inhibition — A Poem by Margery Mansfield
  • In An American Factory by Stoyan Pribichevich
  • The Story of the Davis Cup by John R. Tunis
  • On Being Kept by a Cat by Elmer Davis
  • The Doctors Face Revolt by Avis D. Carlson
  • How the Scandinavians Do It by Marquis W. Childs
  • America’s Globe-Trotting Salesmen by Carl Crow
  • Brothers to the Gods by A.H. Young-O’Brien
  • What Would Germany Fight With? by Willson Woodside
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1938-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1938/05 —

  • The Future of Our Higher Education by James Bryant Conant
  • “The Dirty War” — A story by Thomas Sancton
  • The Supreme Court Today by Marquis W. Childs
  • New Orleans: A First Impression by J.B. Priestley
  • When the Population Levels Off by Henry Pratt Fairchild
  • Collective Living by John Hyde Preston
  • “The Willow Fly” — A story by Eugene Wright
  • Song by Frederic Prokosch
  • Mark Twain ‘s Elmira by Max Eastman
  • The American Way by Carl Landauer
  • The Parole Question by Lewis E. Lawes
  • Where Are You Going, Mr. President? by Hubert Herring
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop Section
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1938-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1938/04 —

  • But Is There a Federal Deficit? by David Cushman Coyle
  • “The White Camel” — A story by Eugene Wright
  • Bermuda, 1938 by Frederick Lewis Allen
  • The Millvale Apparition by Louis Adamic
  • “In a Place of Drought” — A poem by John Dillon Husband
  • The American Way by Gerald W. Johnson
  • I Knew a Chinese Bandit by Carl Crow
  • The Plight of the Theater Business by Clayton Hamilton
  • “Certain Ending” — A poem by Edward Weismiller
  • Italy’s Over-Estimated Power by George Fielding Eliot
  • Colonies for Germany? by Willson Woodside
  • Romania — Another Spain? by Henry C. Wolfe
  • “The Diamond-Eater” — A story by George Shepherd
  • Thrice Married by Anonymous
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop Section
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1938-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1938/03 —

  • We Lose the Next War by Elmer Davis
  • “Fantasia for Trumpets” — A Story by A.H.Z. Carr
  • “His Autumn Colored-Face” — A Poem by Jesse Stuart
  • A Little Girl’s New York by Edith Wharton
  • Catching Up With Inventors by Arthur Train, Jr.
  • Russia and the Socialist Ideal by Max Eastman
  • Do You Know Aaron Slick? by Merrill Denison
  • The American Way by Carl Dreher
  • “A Man Gets to Thinking” — A story by James R. Aswell
  • Ethiopia Now by Ernest Wiese
  • It Is Called Diplomacy by Marquis W. Childs
  • Hawaii Likes Music by Sigmund Spaeth
  • Business Finds Its Voice — Part 3 — by S.H. Walker – Paul Sklar
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1938-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1938/02 —

  • The American Way by David Cushman Coyle
  • “Grandma and the Sentimental Traveler” — A story by Dorothy Thomas
  • “Creator of the Universe” — A poem by Jesse Stuart
  • The Riddle of Hitler by Stephen H. Roberts

  • Can Divorce Be Sucessful? by Anonymous
  • Men Without Wheels by John W. Vancercook
  • “New Year’s Morning” — A poem by C.F. MacIntyre
  • The Folly of Industrial Planning by L.M. Graves
  • The Story of “Mistress Nell” by Henrietta Crosman
  • I Didn’t Have a Teacher’s License by Anonymous
  • “Custodian” — A poem by Ted Olson
  • “He Gave Him a Stone” — A story by Charles W. Ferguson
  • “Swim After Work” — A poem by Louis Stoddard
  • The Undistributed Profits Tax by Maurice Wertheim
  • Children Keep You Young by Frederic F. Van De Water
  • Business Finds Its Voice — Part 2 — by S.H. Walker – Paul Sklar
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1938-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1938/01 —

  • Business Finds Its Voice by S.H. Walker – Paul Sklar
  • “The Globe” — A story by Benedict Thielen
  • World’s Fair, 1939: A Preview by Gardner Harding
  • I Fly for Spain by Eugene Finick
  • Word-Trouble Among the Statesmen by Stuart Chase
  • Invitation to the Country by Charles Allen Smart

  • “This Faith, This Violence” — A poem by ribert Nathan
  • What’s Behind the Strikes? by Alexander H. Frey
  • “Solitude” — A poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

  • “Voyage from Moji” — A story by Lionel Wiggam
  • “Prexy” by Anonymous
  • The Economic Setback by John T. Flynn
  • “Summer Evening” — A poem by James Agee
  • A Hawk at Dusk by Louis J. Halle, Jr.
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1937-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1937/12 —

  • Convulsion in the Orient by Nathaniel Peffer
  • Mr. Sweeney’s Shadow – A Story by Joan Detweiler
  • An Observer Warns the Church by Rollo Walter Brown
  • Passing Understanding – A Poem by C.F. MacIntyre
  • Robert Moses and His Parks by Hubert Herring
  • Farewell to Shanghai by Carl Crow
  • Word-Trouble Among the Economists by Stuart Chase
  • The Bond Salesman – A Story by Griffith Beems
  • The Age of Schizophrenia by Leslie C. Barber
  • Landscape With Farmers by Charles Allen Smart
  • Taxation Not for Revenue by Chester T. Crowell
  • Selling Stories to the Movies by Homer Croy
  • Plus regular columns including The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto

    • 1937-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1937/11 —

  • The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase
  • Shall Marriage Be Subsidized? by Genevieve Parkhurst
  • “Surplus” — A poem by Charles Hanson Towne
  • “The White House Is Calling” by Stanley High
  • I Was on the Hindenburg by Margaret G. Mather
  • In Memoriam: Third Ypres — A Poem by James Norman Hall
  • The Orchestra Conductor by John Tasker Howard
  • One Day in History by Fredrick Lewis Allen
  • Our Tax Jungle by Chester T. Crowell
  • Paris, 1937 by Ernest Poole
  • More Precious Than Rubies by George Russell Harrison
  • The Economics of the Founding Fathers by Abram L. Harris
  • Turtle Sanctuary by William Beebe
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop Section
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • The Automobile by Donald Wilhelm
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1937-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1937/10 —

  • Balance What Budget? By David Cushman Coyle
  • Sons of the Wold about Mussolini’s Six-Year-Old Soldiers by Ernest Poole
  • Why Birds Leave Home by George Dock, Jr.
  • Mathematician – A Poem by Edward Weismiller
  • Roosevelt: Democratic or Dictatorial? by Stanley High
  • A Sagebrush Bookshelf by Bernard DeVoto
  • Radio, American Style by Jascha Heifetz
  • Korea from a Nunnery Window by Willard Price
  • Man Moving West – A Poem by Gilbert Maxwell
  • The Chrysanthemums – A Story by John Steinbeck
  • Poems on the War by Edward Ames Richards
  • A Week in Paradise by William Beebe
  • More Letters of John Jay Chapman by M.A. DeWolfe Howe
  • Crippled in the Tongue by Avis D. Carlson
  • Professors’ Freedom by Donald Slesinger
  • Plus regular columns including The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto

    • 1937-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1937/09 —

  • Mr. Roosevelt and the Future by Stanley High

  • Good-by to the Superintendent – A story by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant

  • Trout in Swift Water – A poem by Edward Weismiller
  • Japan Counts the Cost by Nathaniel Peffer

  • Letters from Jay Chapman by M.A. De Wolfe Howe
  • Dixie Detour by Cedric Belfrage
  • A Formula for Conservatives by Harold J. Laski
  • Washington Pageant by Nathalie Colby
  • Louisville, Kentucky by George R. Leighton – 22 page article

  • Sharks’Fins and Ancient Eggs by Carl Crow
  • What Holds the World Together by George W. Gray
  • Plus regular columns including The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto
  • Madeleine Carroll featured in an ad for Lucky Strikes on the back cover

    • 1937-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1937/08 —

    Midsummer Fiction Issue

  • Birmingham, Alabama by George R. Leighton
  • The Promise – A Story by John Steinbeck
  • Washington Wife by Nathalie Colby
  • Planning the Ethiopian Campaign by Emilio De Bono
  • The Complete Scandalmonger by George Boas

  • Lady in Trouble – A Story by Margery Sharp

  • A Biologist Looks at England by J.B.S. Haldane
  • I Believe – A Story by Benedict Thielen
  • I Like to Teach by Brooks Shepard
  • Assumption – A Poem by Edward Weismiller
  • Straights and Flushes by Carl Crow
  • Nur Wer die Sehnsucht – A Poem by Gilbert Maxwell
  • The Two-Franc Piece – A Story by Andre Birabeau
  • One Generation After Another – A Poem by Granville Paul Smith
  • Fixed Prices and the Consumer by Saul Nelson
  • Plus regular columns including The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto

    • 1937-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1937/07 —

  • The War Boom Begins by John T. Flynn
  • The Haunted Palace – A Story by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • A Professor Quits the Communist Party by Stuart Browne
  • The Importance of Loafing by Lin Yutang
  • Eye-Witness in Madrid – Part 2 by Geoffrey Cox
  • Speaking of Cats and Dogs by Grace Flandrau
  • No One Has Sung for Us – A Poem by Jesse Stuart
  • The Riddle of Our Reddening Skies by George W. Gray
  • The Necessary Dash of Bitters by Gerald W. Johnson
  • Killing Old Age Security With Kindness by Abraham Epstein

  • Accounting for Taste by George Boas
  • The Garish Day – A Story by Dorothy Thomas
  • Home Without Ducks – A Poem by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
  • The Odds Against Germany by Willson Woodside
  • Plus regular columns including The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto
  • Gary Cooper featured in an ad for Lucky Strikes on the back cover

    • 1937-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1937/06 —

  • Can the Small Business Man Survive? By John Allen Murphy
  • Memoir of My Mother by Angelo P. Bertocci
  • What and Where Are We? By J.W.N. Sullivan
  • Eye-Witness in Madrid – Part 1 by Geoffrey Cox
  • Honoris Causa by John R. Tunis
  • The Unconquerable Mexican by Hubert Herring

  • Walnuts – A Story by Griffith Beens
  • Stone of Mercury – A Poem by Charmian Lynn Montross
  • Gypsy in a Trailer — Part 2 by Konrad Bercovici
  • Uncle Sam as an Exporter by Carl Crow

  • Czechoslovakia: Bridge or Barricade? by Elmer Davis
  • Pulps and Confessions by Margaret Macmullen
  • Plus regular columns including The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto