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1947-04-16 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/04/16 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Oversized, appx. 11-3/4″ X 16-1/2″ classic The Sporting News issue printed on newsprint. The image at the left is a cropped out portion of the cover (too large to fit the whole thing on my scanner!) and there are other images below from inside this issue. Classic Sporting News from when it was “The Baseball Paper of the World”!

There is just too much packed into each issue of The Sporting News to list it all, but I have paged through this entire issue and here are some of the highlights:

  • It’s not the headline, but the main story on the front cover is “Jackie Robinson Gets Chance With Flatbush Troupe — Likely to See Service Mostly as Pinch Runner” by Michael Gaven with a small photo of Jackie Robinson. The article begins as follows: “Brooklyn, for the first time in its 72 years in the National League, will have a Negro player within its ranks this season. All doubt of Jackie Robinson’s status was removed at 3:15 pm, April 10, when Branch Rickey announced ‘The Brooklyn Dodgers today purchased the contract of Jackie Roosevelt Robinson from the Montreal Royals” Further into the article regarding Branch Rickey: “No man ever had greater faith in the ability of a ball player. We believe that it was Branch’s honest opinion that the Brooklyn players would come rushing to him and shout” ‘Let’s have that fellow. He can win the pennant for us.’ To put it mildly, it didn’t happen that way. However, a quiet poll conducted by the Flatbush Secret Service revealed that no one would quit the club if Robinson were made a member.” Truly a bit of history!

    • The rest of the issue obviously pales in comparison, but here are the highlights:

  • Headline on the cover is “Chandler Rolls Up Sleeves for New Swings — Lips Feels First Punch; Other Targets Rumored — Commissioner Said to Be Gunning for One Individual in Particular; Believes Efforts to Run Game With Kindly Hand Were Misconstrued” with large photo of Leo Durocher on the cover
  • “Redbirds, Red Sox Rated Repeaters — Buc Climb to Second Predicted” by J.G. Taylor Spink
  • “Confident Cards Face Easier Victory — But Bosox Can’t Rely on Breeze” with brief previews of each club
  • “Lippy Listens in Saddened Silence to Chandler’s Long Sentence” with article from cover continued plus “Sad Saga of Game’s No. 1 Bad Boy — Lip’s 20-Year Major Career Dotted by Flare-Ups — Challenged Ruth, Cobb as Rookie With Yankees”
  • Next page: “Leo, Given Sympathy of His Players, Makes Farewell Talk to Great Bunch — Suspension of Pilot Comes as Stunning Surprise to Members of Team”
  • Willard Mullin cartoon “Down at the Heel” features Joe DiMaggio
  • “Bobo Newsom Blasts Inflated Salaries of Stars — Says Greenberg Will Get 110 Grand–But No Guy Is Worth That Much”
  • “I’ll Play in Majors or Not at All, Tepsic’s Ultimatum to Dodgers” with photo of Joe Tepsic
  • “Babe Gets Back Into Game to Aid in Promoting Junior Ball — Signed by Ford Company to Help Legion Program” with photos of Babe Ruth
  • Ed Lopat
  • “Bombers Ball-Riding Berra Balks at Walks — Long-Hitting Rookie Swings at Almost Anything to Avoid Pass — Yogi Fits MacPhail’s, Color Pattern for Yankees; Looks Awkward at Bat, But Connects for Distance” with photo of Yogi Berra swinging a bat and with St. Louis buddy Joe Garagiola
  • “Can a Run Be Scored After Third Out? Yes, Says Ump Barlick, and Tells How”
  • Whitey Lockman
  • Johnny Price
  • “Veeck Straightens Snake Snarl; They Egged Me On, Says Price — Commotion on Train Caused by Two Reptiles–Women Screamed, Boudreau Boiled, John Sorrowed”
  • “Sportsman’s Park Receives $200,000 Face-Lifting Job”
  • Necrology: “Joe Page, Mr. Baseball of Dominion, Dies at 79 — Fostered Game in Canada for 60 Years, Saw Every World Series Since ’84”
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 48 pages total.

    1947-04-23 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1947/04/23 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Oversized, appx. 11-3/4″ X 16-1/2″ classic The Sporting News issue printed on newsprint. The image at the left is a cropped out portion of the cover (too large to fit the whole thing on my scanner!) and there are other images below from inside this issue. Classic Sporting News from when it was “The Baseball Paper of the World”!

    There is just too much packed into each issue of The Sporting News to list it all, but I have paged through this entire issue and here are some of the highlights beginning with two huge features:

  • It’s not on the cover, but only page 3, but the headline on that page is “Debut ‘Just Another Game’ to Jackie — Negro Star Did His Thinking Night Before; ‘Brooklyn Players Have Been Swell'” with three large pictures of Jackie Robinson. The issue highlighting the moment transcending baseball and making history! One full page of coverage continued onto the next page where it takes up about a quarter-page
  • But The Sporting News had been planning on this being a special issue anyway, dedicated to the man on the front cover, Babe Ruth! On the cover is a cartoon titled “Marvel of the Multitudes and Still the Champ!” by Amadee, and the small article “Ruth Ceremonies Will Be Broadcast at All Major and Big Minor Parks” but the real special part of the issue is advertised at the top banner– “Eight-page illustrated Life Story of Babe Ruth” which is inside towards the middle of the issue. Basically Ruth’s whole life and career are covered on these 8-pages, 3 full pages of which contain nothing but photos! The ultimate Babe Ruth tribute coming from 1947!

    • The rest of the issue obviously pales in comparison, but here are the highlights:

  • Headline on the front cover: “MacPhail Gesture for Lip May Backfire — Yank Boss Sparks Ire of Chandler — Commissioner to Stand Pat on Penalty; Doesn’t Like Action by Larry”

  • Burt Shotten “Chosen to Pilot Dodgers After McCarthy Turns Job Down”
  • “Leo Keeps Lip Buttoned on Return to Hollywood — Gives ‘No Comment’ Answers to Reporters; Wife Calls Suspension ‘Terribly Unfair’
  • “Hal Chase Replays His Costliest Error — Gravely Ill, Ex-First Base Marvel Regrets Failure to Reveal 1919 Series Fix — Admits He Knew Plot in Advance”
  • George McQuinn
  • “A Word to the Wise” cartoon by Willard Mullin featuring Clint Hartung, Mel Ott and the Chinese Homerun
  • “Dizzy Stirs St. Louis Fan Banquet by ‘Penny Pincher’ Rap at Breadon — Me and Paul Got Only $10,500 for Winning Cards Flag in ’34” with photo of Dizzy Dean
  • Point/Counterpoint Style Article: “Was Durocher Penalty Justified? Spink Says ‘Yes’ and Corum ‘No'”
  • “Boston’s Even Hoping for an All-Hub Series — Fans, Already Sure of Sox, Favorably Impressed by Look at Braves”
  • “Pictorial Highlights of Major League Lidlifters” begins at the top left with an image from Brooklyn of Jackie Robinson swinging
  • Louisville Slugger ad on the inside back cover dedicated to Babe Ruth with huge illustration of the Bambino
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 40 pages total.

    1947-04-30 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1947/04/30 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Oversized, appx. 11-3/4″ X 16-1/2″ classic The Sporting News issue printed on newsprint. The image at the left is a cropped out portion of the cover (too large to fit the whole thing on my scanner!) and there are other images below from inside this issue. Classic Sporting News from when it was “The Baseball Paper of the World”!

    There is just too much packed into each issue of The Sporting News to list it all, but I have paged through this entire issue and here are some of the highlights:

  • Cover cartoon by Willard Mullin is “Don’t Fence Him In” featuring Pete Reiser of the Brooklyn Dodgers
  • Headline is “MacPhail Facing Showdown With Chandler — Yank Head Gets Call on Carpet — Summons Follows Interview Criticizing Suspension Handed Durocher
  • Mel Ott “Gets Hot When They Tag Giants for Cellar — Mel Loses Mellow Mood as Polo Grounders Plunge”
  • “Blackwell’s Buzzball Backs Up Batters — Cincy’s Slim Sidearmer Shows Sizzling Speed” with photos of Ewell Blackwell
  • “DiMag Props Yank Stock With Hefty Bat on Return — Joe’s Early Comeback Tonic to Bombers; Reynolds, Bevens Impressive” with photo of Joe DiMaggio
  • Babe Ruth “to Aid Legion Junior Ball to the Very Limit of My Health — Training Rules Laid Down by Medicos to Govern Bambino’s Activities”
  • Mr. Shortstop Likes That ‘Slug’ Moniker Too” with photos of Marty Marion
  • Pat Mullin
  • “Dodgers Seem Different–It’s Uncle Burt as Boss — Soft-Spoken New Pilot Represents Direct Contrast to Lip” about Burt Shotton
  • “Rickey Keeps Door Open for Durocher in ’48 — Shotton Is One-Year Fill-In as Dodger Leader”
  • “Bing Reigns in Pittsburgh for Sunny Opening Day — Crosby Captivates Corsair Coterie, Appears At Luncheon, Ball Game and C. of C. Banquet” with photos of Bing Crosby
  • “Milan Pins Marksman Medal on Rifle-Armed Dom DiMaggio”
  • “Bob Feller Blazes Away at Barnstorming Critics — Cleveland Ace’s Ninth One-Hit Feat Refutes Forecasts He Ruined Arm on Last Fall’s Exhibition Tour”
  • “Where Are Members of All-Time No. 1 Team Today? — Father Time Riddles Ranks of Great ’27 Yanks” — A Look back at the 1927 Yankees
  • Chesterfield ad featuring Bob Hope on the back cover
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 40 pages total.

    1947-05-07 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1947/05/07 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Oversized, appx. 11-3/4″ X 16-1/2″ classic The Sporting News issue printed on newsprint. The image at the left is a cropped out portion of the cover (too large to fit the whole thing on my scanner!) and there are other images below from inside this issue. Classic Sporting News from when it was “The Baseball Paper of the World”!

    There is just too much packed into each issue of The Sporting News to list it all, but I have paged through this entire issue and here are some of the highlights:

  • Cover cartoon by Al Pappas is “Eliza Dyer Hears the Hounds”
  • Headline is “Happy, Larry Speechless After 6-1/2 Hour Gabfest — Showdown Ends With Both Silent — Statement on Long Confab May Never Be Issued, Says Chandler Aide”
  • “That Old Yank Magic in an ‘NY’ Blouse — Bomber Suit Turns Many Players Into Stars –Shirt Does Something to McQuinn” with photos of Frank Shea, Don Johnson, Bob Brown, George McQuinn and Allie Reynolds
  • “Nations Fans Join With Game in Stirring Tribute to Babe Ruth — 58,339 Cheer Homer King in Yank Stadium Ceremony” with photos of Babe Ruth, plus sidebar article “Babe’s Shoulders Squared By Thunderous Reception”
  • “Jackie Just Another Player to Us–With No Favors, Says Chapman — ‘He Must Learn to Take It, Like All Others, Declares Phillies Manager” with photo of Jackie Robinson
  • Johnny Mize “Tagged as Slow Starter, Rushing Output of Homers”
  • “Dodgers Up to Old Tricks In Their Own Back Yard — Despite Shaky Hurling, Bums Start as Fast for Shotton as They Did for Lip”
  • “Modest Lyons Shuns ‘Miracle’ Tag–He’ll Settle for First Division Spot” with large photo of Ted Lyons
  • Schoolboy Rowe
  • Sid Hudson
  • “If This Won’t Give You Ulcers I Don’t Know What Will — Broadcaster Dean Roots Brownies to Victory” with photo of Dizzy Dean
  • Photo of Bob Feller captioned “Feller Warming Up in Dugout” shows Feller sitting in his new electrically heated jacket
  • Chesterfield ad featuring Bobby Riggs on the back cover
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 36 pages total.

    1947-05-14 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1947/05/14 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Oversized, appx. 11-3/4″ X 16-1/2″ classic The Sporting News issue printed on newsprint. The image at the left is a cropped out portion of the cover (too large to fit the whole thing on my scanner!) and there are other images below from inside this issue. Classic Sporting News from when it was “The Baseball Paper of the World”!

    There is just too much packed into each issue of The Sporting News to list it all, but I have paged through this entire issue and here are some of the highlights:

  • Cover cartoon by Al Pappas is “Around It Goes and Where It Will Stop Nobody Knows”
  • Headline is “Veeck Backs Homer Fence As Break for Fans — Spectators Like Action and Power — Playing Area at Cleveland Park Was Too Large, Says Tribe Boss”
  • Also on the cover “Babe Ruth Establishes Foundation to Aid Underprivileged Children”
  • “’47 Ball Livelier? Poll Reveals No Large Majority for Either Arguement; Musial, Walker Say ‘Yes’; Miller, Chapman Say ‘No'”
  • “National’s Pitchers Tough, Too–Hank — Greenberg Compares Hurling in Two Majors — Haven’t Seen Anybody as Good as Bob Feller” with photo of Hank Greenberg
  • “Feller Corporation Just for Sidelines, Says Bob — Guards His Family Against Liability Clains; Isn’t Tax-Saving Device” with photo of Bob Feller
  • “Bat-Overseer Hornsby Sees Brighter Days for Seerey”
  • “Feller’s ERA Mark Jumps from .26 to 1.25 in Inning”
  • “Rickey Solves Squad-Cutting Worry by Jackpot Deal That Nets $200,000 — Sends Higbe, Four Others to Bucs for Gionfriddo and Load of Cash”
  • “Cartoon Spurred Pirate Head to Close Big Deal — Didn’t Like Tag of ‘Old Clothes Man’ in Sketch — Doggoned Drawing, Shown in The Sporting News Stirred McKinney”
  • “It’s Schoolmaster Rowe and Clutch Leonard Now — Pair of Old-Timers Pacing Phillies’ Mound Staff” with small pics of Schoolboy Rowe and Dutch Leonard
  • Johnny Jorgensen
  • “Lippy Defies Chandler to Prove He Strayed Off Line Drawn at Lecture — Commissioner Was Very Friendly at December Meeting, Asserts Durocher, Visiting Brooklyn With Bride; Wants to Return as Dodger Manager”
  • “Limping Yanks Lag With DiMag, But Kid McQuinn Keeps on Toes — Joe Expected to Start Jolting With Hot Weather; Heel Still Bothers Him”
  • “Red Sox Discover New Third Sacker in Pesky”
  • Photo captioned “Sisler Back on First in Coaching Role” shows George Sisler surrounded by Brooklyn Dodgers players including Jackie Robinson
  • “New Worry for Tigers–Newhouser’s Longest Loss String in 4 Years”
  • Necrology: “Kitty Bransfield Dies at 72; Starred With Bucs in 1901-03”
  • Chesterfield ad featuring Charles Boyer on the back cover
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 40 pages total.

    1939-06-22 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1939/06/22 —

  • Headline over the masthead: A Century of Baseball, With Pictures and Records, In this Issue, 20 Pages
  • Headline Over Photos on Front Cover: Gee-Whiskers! The Thirty-Niners! How They Might Have Looked, imagines some of 1939’s baseball stars with Old Tyme Mustaches, pictured are: Hank Greenberg – Bill Terry – Ernie Lombardi – Red Ruffing – Gabby Hartnett – Joe McCarthy

    • Other stories:

  • Norwegian Prince Gets Ear and Eyeful at a Minor Game – As Guest of Superior Club, Olav Hears Irate Fans Blast Umpire and Sees Player Banished
  • Dizzy Dean Helps Silence Talk About Hartnett Being Bounced
  • The Earl Puts Solid Stripe on Bengels about Earl Averill
  • ‘We Wuz Robbed,’ Wail Set Up by Tribe Fans on Averill Deal
  • Red Evans, Who Dropped Three games on Three Piches on “Daffy Dodger Luck,” Once Hurled for Insane Asylum, with large cartoon of Evans by Willard Mullin
  • Pepper Martin Rallies Card Fan Interest – 12,538 Pay Tribute to Colourful Veteran on ‘His Day’
  • Cooperstown Cavalcade Marked by Greatest Galaxy of Past and Present Diamond Stars Ever Assembled, with three photos including the classic one of inductees Honus Wagner, Grover Alexander, Tris Speaker, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Walter Johnson, Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Cy Young, with note that Ty Cobb arrived late. Sidebar article “Happy Days for Cobb.” Fred Lieb article Exhibition, Staged on Historic Doubleday Field, Showed Evolution of Game from Town Ball to Modern-Day Sport; Hall of Fame Members Provided Biggest Thrill for 10,000 Onlookers
  • Plus many other articles not mentioned, box scores, detailed minor league coverage and more
  • Headline: ALL U.S. CELEBRATES CENTURY OF PROGRESS IN GAME – with cover photos of Gen. Abner Doubleday, the 1888 New York Giants with manager Jim Mutrie, the famed Baltimore Orioles of 1894 with manager Ned Hanlon, illustrations of Uniform Styles of 1870 and the Championship Match of Elysian Fields, Hoboken, NJ, 1866
  • Their Achievements Immortalized in Bronze in Game’s Hall of Fame – shows 19 plaques of the first Hall of Famers, plus article Great Players, Great Officials, Great Teams Dot Game’s History
  • Centennial Observance Centers in Game’s Birthplace – Shrine, Feature Events Draw Pilgrimages to Cooperstown, plus photos under headline “Preserving Memories of the Deeds of Diamond Greats
  • Illustration and photo of the Co-Originators of the Curve Ball: Arthur Candy Cummings and Fred E. Goldsmith
  • Article with team drawing: Red Stockings of 1869, First Paid Team, Only Pro Club Ever Undefeated in Season
  • Louisville Slugger Bats Used by Players for Over 50 Years
  • Keeping Step With the Growth of the Game about The Sporting News itself
  • Deacon White, Oldest Living Player, at 92, Recalls Highlights of Historic Career That Started in 1868

    • 1946-10-09 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1946/10/09 —

  • Cover cartoon is “Shooting the Chutes” by Willard Mullin featuring “Gus Fan” and the 1946 Season
  • Headline on front cover is “Who Is Majors’ No. 1 Manager for ’46? – Hot Debate Over Claims for Cronin, Dyer and Lip” by J.G. Taylor Spink
  • “Most Unusual Series Game Recalled — Grand Slam, Unaided Triple Play in 1920 Tilt” with photos of each Elmer Smith and Bill Wambsganss
  • Frank Frisch “Anecdotes Revived by Departure from Pirates — Majors Will Miss Fun-Loving Frankie”
  • A page filled with photos: “Frisch Follies” following Frankie Frisch’s career
  • “Like Father, Like Son … Jim Bagby, Jr. in Series”
  • “Cards Hold Mastery Over Dodgers to End” with box scores of the two playoff games the Cards needed to get past the Dodgers for the pennant
  • “Ticket Tornado Tosses Many Scalpers for Loss – Speculators’ Prices for St. Louis Playoff Game Drop Rapidly After Initial Rush for Pasteboards”
  • Over a full-page feature by J.G. Taylor Spink: RUBE WADDELL – “Madcap Mound Marvel – Rose to Fame Under Mack’s Kindly Hand”
  • Bob Feller – “Feller Beats Newhouser, Waddell’s Strikeout Record, All in the Same Day — ‘Whiff Records Fine, But Never Again,’ Vows Weary Indian After Reaching 348”
  • “Statisticians Still Fanning Figures Over Bobby Feller’s Whiff Mark – Experts Place Waddell Total Between 347 and 352; Evidence Supports 349”
  • “Cardinals Battling for Their Sixth World’s Title – Birds Have Lost Three Big Series”
  • Team photo with headline Red Sox Wrecking Crew Who Rolled Over Rivals in A.L. Race
  • “Bosox Defend All-Victory Record in Series Play — Topped Five Flags with W.S. Wins – 1946 Pennant Winner First in 28 Years” with photos of Jimmy Collins, Jake Stahl, Bill Carrigan and Ed Barrow (the managers of the Boston Champions) – The following page includes photos of Bill Dinneen, Joe Wood, Duffy Lewis, Larry Gardner, and Babe Ruth
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more!
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features images of Ted Williams

    • 40 pages total.

    1946-10-23 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1946/10/23 —

  • Cover cartoon is “The Busher Who Won a World’s Championship” by Nelson features Sam Breadon and Eddie Dyer
  • Headline on front cover is “Low Series Shares to Bring Scale Demand – Small Parks Rob Players of Barnstorming Takes”
  • “Looping the Loops” column by J.G. Taylor Spink focuses on Joe Gariagiola this issue
  • “Cards Champs Sixth Time Because of Old Fight – Breadon’s Club Never in Lead Till Last Day”
  • Harry Brecheen feature articles with cartoon of “The Cat” by Amadee
  • “THE 1946 WORLD SERIES RUN BY RUN” with box scores of all 7 games as the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Boston Red Sox
  • MORE WORLD SERIES COVERAGE – Including team photo of the Champion Cardinals, Composite Box Scores, a brief article on the 15 records set and 20 tied this series, gate receipts
  • CARD BY CARD – Winning Deck, from Top to Bottom by J.G. Taylor Spink focuses on members of the Cardinals, on the facing page is a full-page of photos captioned “Behind the Scenes Operating World Champions”
  • Babe Ruth “Led Bell-Ringers in Big Series – Babe’s .625 in 1928 Far Ahead of All Others – 40 Players Batter .400 or Better in Fall Classic”
  • Feature article about Lefty O’Doul with 3 photos and career statistics
  • MY GREATEST DIAMOND THRILL by Eddie Dyer, Manager, St. Louis Cardinals
  • Dolf Luque “Warms Up Old Giant Gems at ‘El Pitcher’ – Dolf Entertains U.S. Diamond Tourists at Cuban Home, Recalls Hill Feats

    • 28 pages total.

    1947-01-15 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1947/01/15 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Oversized, appx. 11-3/4″ X 16-1/2″ classic The Sporting News issue printed on newsprint. The image at the left is a cropped out portion of the cover (too large to fit the whole thing on my scanner!) and there are other images below from inside this issue. Classic Sporting News from when it was “The Baseball Paper of the World”!

    There is just too much packed into each issue of The Sporting News to list it all, but I have paged through this entire issue and here are some of the highlights:

  • Cover cartoon by Willard Mullin is “Clear the Runways! The Yankee Clipper Is About to Roar Again” featuring Joe DiMaggio
  • Headline is “Feller to Cop $80,000 Plus as New Pay King — Bonus Pact to Hinge on Tribe Gate — Excellent Chance to Pass Ruth’s Top; Other Stars May Take Bob’s Cue”
  • Pete Reiser’s “Newest Gripe: Dodgers WON’T TALK — Outfielder Has Heard Nothing Since Surgery — Rickey Always Out When He Phoned, Says Speedboy; Arm Feels Stronger”
  • “H.G. Salsinger Says: Hank to Yanks as First Sacker Gives Detroit First Laugh of Year — If Slugger is Too Slow for Gateway on Tigers, Is He Fast Enough for Same Spot on Bombers?”
  • “Many Executives Stem from Branch — Rickey Recalls How He Picked MacPhail, Giles, Trautman, DeWitt and Others” with photos of all men
  • “New Stars Pad Major Catching Corps — Most Run-Down Department in Big Leagues Being Filled Out by Fresh Mitts” with photos of catchers Lester Moss, Aaron Robinson, Joe Garigiola, Jim Hegan, Yogi Berra, and Bruce Edwards
  • Full-page of Babe Ruth coverage, as the Bambino recovers from surgery. “Not Unattended” cartoon by Willard Mullin shows the Babe sitting up in bed, plus articles titled “Nation’s Fans Root for Ruth After Surgery — Babe Plans Trip to Warmer Climate to Recuperate; Artery Ligated”; “Prayers of First Coach Follow Babe in Surgery”; “Water Edged Closer, Ruth Hit Longer”; and the “Graham’s Corner” column by Frank Graham is headed “Take a Good Swing, Babe!”
  • Eddie Miller
  • Del Ennis
  • “World Series Without Public Seat Sale Looms in St. Louis if Cardinals Repeat — Ticket-Book Buyers to Get First Choice”
  • “Tribe Wood-Polisher Woodling to Get Chance as Bucco Belter” with pic of Gene Woodling
  • “Honus, Signing 36th Contract, Eager for First Visit to Floriada” with small pic of Honus Wagner signing his contract as Pirates coach
  • Thornton Lee
  • Johnny Rigney
  • “Jump to Dodgers Put Up to Jackie–And Durocher — Decision on Whether Robinson is Ready Passed to Lip by Rickey” with small pics of Rickey, Jackie Robinson, and Leo Durocher
  • “Durocher Thinks He Can Win by Out-Talking Other Fellow — Giant Killer Calls Lip Smartie Like McGraw” featured article with photos of Harry Coveleskie both as player and “currently” as a bartender
  • Red Smith article about Dizzy Dean — “Dean Undizzy–Just Spirited — Belongs in Hall of Fame But Not on Screwball List”
  • Games Famous Streaks — “Keeler’s 44-Game String of Hits Still High for N.L.” with three photos of Wee Willie Keeler and a day by day record of his hitting streak
  • “DiMag Adds Heel-Repair to Rebuild Job — Joe Expected to Be Ready for Puerto Rican Trip, Feb. 15”
  • “Indian Chief Veeck Now Stalking Nat Mound Pair — Bill Willing to Take COuple of Washington Hurlers If His Bid for Spence Fails” with pics at the top of Indian manager Lou Boudreau and spring training coaches, Bill McKechnie, Al Lopez, and Rogers Hornsby
  • Mel Ott “Glows Over ’47 Sprouts in Giants’ Garden — Skipper, Visiting New York, Visions More Youth and Speed in Outfield”
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 28 pages total.

    1928-04-14 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1928/04/14 — Cover illustrated by J.F. Kernan

  • Nobody’s Fool by Peter B. Kyne and illustrated by Frank Godwin
  • Good-by, John by John T. Flynn
  • The Woman of Magdala by George Creel and illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops
  • The Prairie Prince by W.B. Courtney — Beginning the life story of Buffalo Bill with illustrations
  • Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Grantland Rice and illustrated by Burris Jenkins, Jr.
  • Well, Its the Law by Sinbad

  • Choose Your Period — In Pictures
  • Gun-Shy by Walter Greenough and illustrated by Charles Sarka
  • Innocents Aboard by John B. Kennedy – On tour with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig with photos
  • Free, White and Female — Part of a Serialized Story by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by T.D. Skidmore

  • The Woman Hunters by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by R.V. Culter
  • Bill Cobb, Fairy Godmother by Garret Smith and illustrated by R.F. James
  • Last Leg by Mark O’Neil and illustrated by Cornelius Hicks
  • How Would You Play It? by Milton C. Work
  • The Perils of the City by The Gentleman at the Keyhole
  • McGoofey’s First Reader by H.I. Phillips
  • Nameographs
  • Braodcasting the Ude by Jack Binns
  • Editorials

    • 1928-04-07 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1928/04/07 — Cover illustrated by Lawson Wood

  • Gerrity of the U.S.N. by Guy Gilpatric and illustrated by Kurt Wiese
  • There’s Magic In The Air by Roger W. Babson with huge illustration by Winsor McCay

  • With Rod and Gun by Ring Lardner
  • The Shadow by Jeffery Farnol and illustrated by Harold Brett
  • We’re in the Movies Now – In Pictures – Center spread across two facing pages includes shots of Will Rogers, Big Bill Tilden, Babe Ruth, Gene Tunney, Gertrude Ederle, and others
  • For a Rainy Day by Elizabeth MacDonald Osborne
  • The New Dynasty by Florence Dorsey Welch and illustrated by Cornelius Hicks
  • What’s the Damage? by Hugh Leamy and illustrated by Austin Eugene Briggs

  • The Woman Hunters — Part of a Serialized Story by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by R.V. Culter
  • The Nervous Wrecks by Uncle Henry
  • Up and At ‘Em by Grantland Rice with photo of boxer Ace Hudkins
  • A Place to Sit Down by Jonathan Brooks and illustrated by Paul Brown
  • Free, White and Female by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by T.D. Skidmore
  • Between Deals by Milton C. Work
  • Nameographs
  • Tom Masson Says
  • Call the Doctor! by The Gentleman at the Keyhole
  • Catching Up With the Wind by Edwin E. Slosson
  • Singing May Singhi by Jack Binns
  • Editorials

    • 1950-06-17 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1950/06/17 — The cover is credited to Thoma Fransioli

    Contents as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • Free the Atom by David E. Lilienthal
  • The Giant Job of Telling Time by Robert Froman

  • Tail-End to Tip-Top: Rise of the Yankees — Continuing My Baseball Story by Edward G. Barrow with James M. Kahn – includes never before published photo supplied by Ed Barrow of the 1922 Yankees as they broke camp, all in shirts and ties including Babe Ruth, Lefty O’Doul, Bob Meusel and others
  • Doctor Mary Sleeps Fast by Ruth Borden and Frances O’Brien
  • Romance at 20 Paces by Bill Davidson with color photo of Micheline Prelle
  • The Kid Right-Hander, Is This His Year? by Tom Meany is about Art Houtteman with color photo
  • Dad–Remember? by Bert Bacharach

    • FICTION:

  • “The Big Build-Up” by Michael Foster and illustrated by Roswell Keller
  • “All the Birds of the Air” by Charles B. Child and illustrated by John Pike
  • “I Was Poor Once Myself” by Margaret Chase and illustrated by Charles Hawes
  • “The Candy Kid” — Part 5 of 6 — by Dorothy B. Hughes and illustrated by Ward Brackett
  • “Jeff and the Schizophrenic Turtle” — The Short Short Story by Walter Karig with illustration by Robert J. Lee

    • PLUS:

  • Keep Up With the World
  • The Average Statistician by W.F. Miksch
  • Editorial

    • 1951-04-21 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1951/04/21 — “April 19, 1775 – Paul Revere’s Historical Ride” cover is credited to Walter Bomar

    Contents as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • Atomic Miracle by John Lear
  • Jo Stafford — Her Songs Upset Joe Stalin by Bill Davidson, includes full-page color photo of Stafford
  • In Defense of Our Jury System by Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman
  • The New Air War — SABRES vs MIGs by Charlotte Knight
  • My Last Big-League Game — Concluding “Umpire Bill Klem’s Own Story — by William J. Klem with William J. Slocum, includes photos of Klem, plus Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Lou Gehrig, Dizzy Dean
  • Boom in Ballet, with paintings by Cydney
  • Speaking of Male Necklines by Bert Bacharach
  • He Found New Land in New England by Arthur Bartlett

    • FICTION:

  • “Consolation Prize” by Elizabeth Wilson and illustrated by Bob Hilbert
  • “A Matter of Choice” by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by Albert Dorne
  • “Portrait of a Preacher” by George Byram and illustrated by Warren Baumgartner
  • “Stairway to an Empty Room” — Part 4 of 5 — by Dolores Hitchens and illustrated by Leonard Steckler
  • “The Closet” — The Short Short Story — by Kenneth Lowe

    • PLUS:

  • 48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport
  • What’s the Rush by W.F. Miksch
  • Editorials
  • Cartoons by Stanley & Janice Berenstain, Virgil Partch, Lafe Locke, Thurston Gentry, Ben Roth, Reamer Keller, John Dempsey, John Ruge, Robert Day, Sidney Hoff, Jane Spear King, Gardner Rea, Charles Pearson, David Huffine, Leonard Huff, John Dempsey, Larry Reynolds
  • Full-page b&w ad featuring Ava Gardner & Robert Mitchum in My Forbidden Past
  • Anne Jeffreys for Camel Cigarettes on the back cover.

    • 1946-06-29 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1946/06/29 — Cover credited to Jon Whitcomb

    Contents as follows:
    FICTION:

  • “Slug It Slay!” — Part 1 of 4 — by Edwin Lanham and illustrated by Gilbert Darling
  • “Mamma’s Gift” — The Short Short Story — by Harriet Hester and illustrated by Carl Robertz
  • A Friend of Colin’s by Elsie Taye and illustrated by Vincent Guise
  • “The Shiftless Man” by Owen Cameron and illustrated by Harry Beckhoff
  • “Young Doc” by George A. Shaftel and illustrated by John Pike
  • “Cipriano” by Czenzi Ormonde and illustrated by Gilbert Darling

    • ARTICLES

  • What’s Russia Up To? — Part 2 of 2 — by Frank Gervasi
  • Mice–or Men? by Norman T. Kirk as told to J.D. Ratcliff, surgeon general of U.S. Army argues for vivesection in medical research
  • Television Will Cost Big Money by E.F. McDonald, Jr.
  • Dance of Triumph by George W. Churchill

  • Hot Tamale Circuit — Part 2 of 2 — by Kyle Crichton about Baseball in Mexico includes a photo of Jorge Pasquel and Mickey Owen with Babe Ruth
  • Weekend Workout by Henry L. Jackson and illustrated by Earl Oliver Hurst
  • China’s Top Star by Lester Walker is about Valentine Chao with small photo of Chao and larger color illustration of her by Martha Sawyers

    • PLUS:

  • Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster
  • The Week’s Mail
  • Wing Talk by Frederick R. Neely
  • The Week’s Work by Amy Porter
  • Editorials: The Drys Have Hope – Among Us Elizabethans – Just Give Us Food Facts
  • Nescafe ad with color illustration by Arthur Szyk of Dutch Burghers of old Manhattan in 1668 A.D.

    • 1946-03-09 Colliers Magazine Contents

    1946/03/09 — Cover credited to Jon Whitcomb

    Contents as follows:
    FICTION:

  • “Dangerous Lady” — Part 1 of 4 — by Octavus Ray Cohen and illustrated by Wendell Kling
  • “P.O. Box 63” by Mignon G. Eberhart and illustrated by Carolyn Edmundson
  • “Hello, Beethoven” by William Porter and illustrated by Gilbert Darling
  • “Departure” by Ernest Haycox and illustrated by Henry McAlear
  • “Money Rider” by Todhunter Ballard and illustrated by Warren Baumgartner
  • “Greater Love Hath No Man” — The Short Short Story — by Ernest Lehman and illustrated by John Holmgren

    • ARTICLES

  • Our Secret War in Scandinavia — Part 1 of 2 — Revealing for the first time how Sweden actively co-operated with the Norwegian underground — by Colonel Bernt Balchen
  • World Changer by Francis Chase, Jr. with drawing by Rolf Klef
  • G.I. Family at Yale by William R. Sears
  • Gateway to Glamor by Bradley Smith about The Studio Club
  • I Couldn’t Afford to Be a Congressman by Robert Ramspeck as told to James C. Derieux
  • Take It Easy by Mabel Scacheri about photography
  • Worms Make the Garden Grow by Alfred H. Sinks
  • The Unbowed Head by Kyle Crichton about Walter Head
  • Teach the New Dog Old Tricks by A.L. Simon

    • PLUS:

  • Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster
  • Wing Talk by Frederick R. Neely
  • The Week’s Work by Amy Porter
  • Editorials: The Choice Is Ours – Officers and Men – Our Great Visitor
  • Half-page black & white ad for Jockey includes a drawing of Babe Ruth

    • 1945-06-06 Life Magazine Contents

    1949/06/06 — Cover photograph featuring “Summer Playclothes” with Ronnie Porter is credited to Lisa Larsen.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Armed Services Battle It Out
  • Editorial: The New ’49ers
  • Forrestal’s Body is Carried to Arlington
  • Photographer Records Biography of a Tornado
  • Another Reuther is Ambushed
  • Rita Hayworth Marries Aly Khan — 3 full pages of coverage, mostly photos
  • Two Vermonters in Jail for Debt

    • ARTICLE:

  • Chaos in Asia by Max Ways

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Pancho Gonzales by Gene Farmer

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Arthritis

    • MOVIES:

  • Red Virtue Routs Western Villainy
  • “Sorrowful Jones” with Bob Hope

    • MEDICINE:

  • Surgery in Color Television

    • ART:

  • Niagara Falls

    • EDUCATION:

  • An Old School Celebrates

    • FASHION:

  • Tops for Shorts

    • INDUSTRY:

  • “Shoe Wizard’s” House

    • NATURE:

  • Busy Bird Hospital

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Gypsy Joins the “Carny” featuring Gypsy Rose Lee

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LIFE’s Reports: Best-Seller Aftermath by Betty Smith
  • Speaking of Pictures: Hippo Haven on Banks of the Old Kazinga
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits Washington’s Luckiest Kids
  • Miscellany: Radio Hat

    • Notable advertising includes: Esther Williams for Lux Soap, 1/8 page ad from the Exacta Time Corporation for the Official Babe Ruth Wristwatch with a photo of the watch and a small image of the Bambino*, Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr in Edward, My Son, and a Chesterfield Cigarettes ad featuring Bob Hope on back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.

    1950-08-28 Life Magazine Contents

    1950/08/28 — Cover photograph featuring General Douglas MacArthur is credited to Stephens

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • A Vision Brings 80,000 to Necedah

    • Editorials:

  • Lessons from Combat
  • U.S. Civil Defense Lags
  • Loving Lion Greets Nightclub Patron
  • Atomic Handbook Becomes a Best Seller
  • Skyscraper Reaches the Top
  • “Wild Blue Yonder Boys” Salue GIs in Korea
  • The Brave Men of No Name Ridge by James Bell
  • Plane Makers Turn It On
  • An Iowa Town Dies a Slow Death

    • ARTICLES:

  • War and Politics by Ernest Havemann
  • The Gamble in Indo-China by Andre Laguerre

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Japan – A Bulwark in the Far East

    • THEATER:

  • Tent Opera

    • SCIENCE:

  • Stresses Made Visible

    • SPORTS:

  • Borscht Basketball

    • FASHION:

  • Dress or Coat

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Rescue Balloon

    • TELEVISION:

  • Mr. No Fixit

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Discovery of Old Film Add to Babe Ruth Legend – 2 full pages then another half page of stills from “Headin’ Home”
  • LIFE Revisits the Ski Bums
  • Miscellany: Legends in Sculpture
  • Beautiful brightly colored 2-page ad for “The Black Rose” starring Tyrone Power, Orson Welles and Cecile Aubry
  • Full-page ad fior The Watchmakers of Switzerland is illustrated in color by Norman Rockwell (illustration is larger than half-page)

    • 1938-07-05 Look Magazine Contents

    1938/07/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Volume 2, Number 14 of LOOK Magazine, from the early days when it consisted entirely of photo-essays.

    Paging through the issue some of the contents are as follows:

  • “The Thrilling Story of Spies” with photos of Mata Hari, Claude France, Edith Cavell, carrier pigeons; 2-pages titled “Tricks of the Spy’s Trade”; another 2-pages titled “The Tragic Fate of Spies” with before and after capture photos of Jane Anderson, Baroness Victoria von Kretschman, anonymous spy hanging, another lying dead in a field, several Serbian spies lined up blindfolded to be shot, and more.
  • Lou Gehrig “How Long Can Baseball’s Iron Man Keep Going?” is 2-pages of Gehrig photos including 4 of his swing and follow-through, one of him with Babe Ruth, one with his wife, one playing football at Columbia, one as a movie cowboy and another trying out for Tarzan.
  • “LOOK Looks Into….Why Movie Theater Owners Complain The Biggest Stars Are Poison at the Box Office” with photos of Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Katharine Hepburn and Kay Francis. The next two pages are titled “LOOK Looks Into…These Are NOT Poison at the Box Office: They Draw the Biggest Crowds” with photos of Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy, Clark Gable, Jane Withers, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Sonja Henie, Ginger Rogers, Gary Cooper and William Powell.
  • 2-pages of cops and robbers with “You Can’t Get a Gun Without a Permit…But Gangsters Can”
  • “Unlucky in Love — The Story of Fanny Brice” is 1-1/2 pages
  • “The Strangest Sights I’ve Seen” by Robert Ripley, is two page of Ripley and his oddities
  • Glenn Cunningham — “He Prefers Fun With the Baby to Fame as a Great Runner” – 2-pages
  • Bernarr Macfadden — “Building Bodies Built His Millions” – 2-pages
  • “Any Girl Can Have Glamour … Constance Bennett Says And Here She Proves It!” — 2-pages, but only one photo of Bennett the rest of Betty Clymer, an “average working girl” that Bennett bet Norman McLeod $25 she could make glamourous
  • Plus several other features.
  • 52 pages total including the covers.

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1930-09 American Magazine Contents

    1930/09 — Cover design by John E. Sheridan.

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

  • “When Do We Come Out of It?” by Dr. Julius Klein and illustrated by C.H. Sykes
  • “Which College–If Any?” by M.K. Wisehart and illustrated by Joseph Simont
  • “Filling Empty Arms” by Neil M. Clark with decoration by Mochi
  • “The World’s Best Loser” by Will Rogers with painting by W.N. Wilson and drawing by Robert Fawcett
  • “The Sea Devil Tells the Rest of the Story” by Lowell Thomas and illustrated by Gustav Tenggren
  • The High Cost of Whiffing” is a golf article by Fitzhugh Green and illustrated by Frank A. Mutz
  • “They Do Remember!” is an article about animal memories by Archibald Rutledge and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull
  • “Settled Out of Court” by A. de Ford Pitney and illustrated by John E. Sheridan
  • “Too Much Dictation” by Mildred Harrington and illustrated by Charles R. Chickering
  • “The Books of Ralph L. Polk Have Thousands of Characters” by William S. Dutton with cartoons by F.G. Cooper and portrait by B.J. Rosenmeyer
  • “Hunters Who Search the World for New Plants” by Herbert W. Waring and illustrated by Charles S. Chapman
  • “We All Talk Too Much!” by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Gluyas Williams
  • “Nobody is Interested in Religion” by Bruce Barton with drawing by S.J. Woolf from photograph

    • FICTION:

  • “Through the Window” by Gerald Mygatt and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • “Four Blocks Apart” — A Novel — Part III — by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by Harry L. Timmins
  • “Lochinvar Does It Again!” by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “The White Patch” by Melville Davisson Post and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “The King’s Minion” — A Novel — Part VI — by Rafael Sabatini and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “A Million Apiece!” by Courtney Ryley Cooper and illustrated by Charles R. Chickering

    • SHORT FEATURES:
    Interesting People:

  • Big Ed Walsh — Article by Franklyn Eugene Doan
  • Mrs. Nettie Hubbard — Article by Robert E. Flaherty
  • Adam Schmitt — Article by Dixie Willson
  • The Babe Shows How — Photographs Posed by Babe Ruth — This is a huge 4-page article containing a total of 8 photographs of the Babe hitting, fielding, sliding and 3 more small pics of him gripping the ball. 11 paragraphs of text. The 4 pages are full-page with no advertising on them.
  • Index to Our Advertisers
  • Our First Reader by Bruce Barton

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Metropolitan Life Insurance ad with illustration by James Montgomery Flagg, “Of Course the Boardwalk is Trimmed with soda fountains for the pause that refreshes” Coca-Cola ad with illustration of Atlantic City boardwalk, and a General Tire and Rubber Company ad on the back cover.

    1931-04 American Magazine Contents

    1931/04 — Cover design by John LaGatta.

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

  • Winged Terror by Bruce Gould is about Anthony Fokker with portrait by John Rogers and drawing by Clayton Knight
  • Are You a Safe Driver? by Robbins B. Stoeckel and illustrated by Frank Dobias
  • What the Man in the Street Has Taught Me by Heywood Broun and illustrated by George Clisbee
  • He Started at the End of His Rope by Mary B. Mullett and illustrated by Carl V. Burger is about concert pianist and noted author on game birds, Otto G. Beyer
  • “I’m Getting to Know My Son” by Keene Sumner
  • How to Move Ahead While Standing Still by James Layfield
  • We’re Ninety-Nine Percent Honest by James R. Crowell
  • But They Do Come Back by W.O. McGeehan
  • A Job You Wouldn’t Want by G.K. Chesterton is about The Prince of Wales and illustrated by B.J. Rosenmeyer
  • “Where Do I Get Off?” by Merle Crowell
  • The House of a Thousand Servants by Claude H. Miller with drawing by Byron Musser
  • Take a Tip from the Waiter by Fritz Nocker and illustrated by Arthur Edrop

    • FICTION:

  • “If I Were You” — A Novel — Part I — by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Frederick Chapman
  • “Dangerous as a Dagger” — Another “Emmy” Story — by Patterson Dial and illustrated by John H. Crosman
  • “Sea Worthy” by Frank Wead and illustrated by W.J. Aylward
  • “War Paint and Rouge” — A Novel — Part III — by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Norman Price
  • “Shoestring” — A Novel — Part V — by Berton Braley and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • “A Guttersnipe Grows Wings” by Robert E. Pinkerton and illustrate by J.W. Schlaikjer
  • “A Chance to Be Somebody” by Louis F. McCabe and illustrated by Charles R. Chickering
  • “Hollyhock Lane” by Margaret Craven and illustrated by John H.Crosman

    • SHORT FEATURES:
    Interesting People:

  • Clifford Laibly and Laman C. Johnson by Neil M. Clark
  • Cliff Self by Ruth Moore Morriss
  • Chief Cuviboranandi, alias A. Hyatt Verrilt by George Allan England
  • Prize Winners — January Contest — “Pulling Out”
  • Our First Reader by Bruce Barton

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: “Swing Along” ad for Camel Cigarettes, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ad is illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg, Hugh Trevor for Lux Toilet Soap*, Hoover Vaccuum Clener ad illustrated by Arthur William Brown, beautiful color ad for the new Ford Victoria, Chesterfield Cigarettes ad illustrated in color by J. Knowles Hare, Babe Ruth in a 2/3 page ad for Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States*, and a Wheaties ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    1940-07-06 Liberty Magazine Contents

    1940/07/06 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Cover by F. Sands Brunner

    Contents as follows:
    EDITORIAL:

  • “Why Change Horses?”–A New Deal Slogan by Bernarr Macfadden

    • SHORT STORIES

  • “The Perfect Fist” by Jacland Marmur
  • “Nor Always to the Proud” by Achmed Abdullah
  • “Dr. Kilbourne’s Candlesticks” — Liberty’s Short Short — by William Benton Johnston

    • SERIALS:

  • Winston Churchill and His American Mother — Part II by Frederick L. Collins and illustrated by George Hughes
  • Money Talks — Part V by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr and illustrated by Phil Lyford
  • Upstairs and Down in Hitler’s House — Part IV by Pauline Kohler and illustrated by James Schucker
  • Wings of Wrath — Part VIII by Oscar Schisgall and illustrated by Charles LaSalle

    • ARTICLES:

  • Stalin’s Parachute Troops in the U.S.A. by Serge Jarama
  • The CIO’s New War by Walter Karig
  • Not You, My Dear Public by J.P. McEvoy is about who makes Hollywood stars with photos of Hedy Lamarr and Marlene Dietrich
  • National Affairs Quiz by Mark Sullivan
  • The Mexican Squeeze Play by George E. Sokolsky
  • Battle Behind the Lines–The War of Propaganda by Vincent Sheean
  • Baseball and Ballyhoo by Joe Engel includes a photo of girl pitcher Jackie Mitchell shaking hands with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig after having struck them out

    • FEATURES:

  • To the Ladies by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin
  • $2,000 Bernarr Macfadden Editorial Quotation Contest
  • Movie Reviews by Beverly Hills
  • Record Reviews by Listener
  • Crossword Puzzle
  • Vox Pop
  • Mobiloil ad on inside front cover is illustrated by McClelland Barclay