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1947-03 47 Magazine Contents

1947/03 –

  • Statement of Intention

    • NARRATIVE:

  • FDR and the Glastonbury Parable by Jay Franklin
  • The Storm – A Story by Vardis Fisher and illustrated by Al Parker
  • Home to Heaven – A Story by Pearl S. Buck and illustrated by Howard W. Willard
  • Yarns

    • WORLD OF ’47:
    I Can Dream, Can’t I? – An Essay by O. Istris

  • Compromise Is Not Appeasement by Raymond Swing
  • Anxiety by Dr. Carl Binger and illustrated by Henry Major
  • Way of the World

    • THE UNITED STATES:

  • My Country, Right or Left? by William A. Lydgate and illustrated by John Groth
  • Monterey–I Like It by Grace Thorne Allen with color photographs by Will Connell
  • Marriages That Don’t Last by Mary Benton Smith with photograph by H. Landshoff
  • Citizens First, Veterans Second by Paul S. Green
  • Department of the Interior

    • VISUAL:
    The Sketchbook of Aaron Bohrod

  • Nudes, Fruits and Jugs by Donita Ferguson with pintings by Robert Brackman

    • DISCOVERY:

  • Adventures in a Balloon by Harold S. Kahm
  • Atomic Primer by Robert Potter with photograph by Hermann Landshoff

    • f-47:

  • The First Month of Life by William and Rita Vandivert and Dr. Margaret Mahler
  • Eisendrath’s Sunsets by Ken Purdy with color photographs by David Eisendrath
  • The Laboratory – Edited by David O. Woodbury

    • REPORT:

  • Facts Out of Japan by Darrell Berrigan and illustrated by Maurice Rawson

    • ’47 VARIETIES:

  • Communications
  • The Tigers In Our House by Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews and illustrated by Richard Erdoes
  • The Most Forgettable Character I’ve Met by Robert Fontaine
  • Death and Rebirth – Poems by Christopher LaFarge

    • MEN AND WOMEN:
    Letter to Judy by Robert St. John

  • A Tune Detective Testifies by Sigmund Spaeth and illustrated by Richard Sargent
  • Sins That Pay Their Way by Joseph Wechsberg
  • Mr. George Washington by Roger Butterfield
  • Other People

    • 1947-04 47 Magazine Contents

    1947/04 – NARRATIVE:

  • Moscow Nights by Marquis Childs
  • The Woman Who Married Clark Gable — A Story by Sean O’Faolain and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • The Crisis — A Story by Arthur Calder-Marshall
  • Hollywood’s Green Years by Richard G. Hubler
  • A Town Is Born by Otto Schrag and illustrated by Austin Briggs
  • Yarns

    • WORLD OF ’47:

  • You Can Change Your Mind, Can’t You? — An Essay by O. Istris
  • Apes, Men and Manners by Earnest Hooton
  • Way of the World
  • Political Fairy Tales from Germany by Sigrid Schultz with photograph by K. Chester

    • VISUAL:

  • Bohrod and the Masters by Stanley S. Jacobs with paintings by Aaron Bohrod

    • THE UNITED STATES:

  • The Owners of the Republican Party by Carey Longmire with caricatures by Sam Berman
  • Four Hundred Families Plan a House by Wallace Stegner
  • Department of the Interior
  • There Is Only One Freedom by John Dos Passos
  • In Their Own Judgment — A Picture-Report by William David Bell

    • ’47 VARIETIES:

  • Communications
  • Two Poems by Vincent McHugh with drawings by Elizabeth James

    • DISCOVERY:

  • Voltage – An Anonymous Article with illustrations by Fritz Henle
  • The Laboratory — Edited by David O. Woodbury

    • f-47 CAMERA:

  • Dreams of Fair Women by Richard Ferrier with photographs by Walter Strate

    • REPORT:

  • A Fable South of Cancer — A Novelette by John Hersey and illustrated by Dwight Shepler

    • MEN AND WOMEN:
    The Lost and the Lonely by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger

  • China’s Madame Sun by Nym Wales and illustrated by George Biddle
  • Puck With a Camera by Jacquelyn Judge with Photographs by Weegee
  • Other People

    • 1947-05 47 Magazine Contents

    1947/05 – THE UNITED STATES:

  • A People’s President in ’48 by Roscoe Drummond with illustration by Alan Dunn
  • America’s Pacific Empire by John Hubbard with map by Harold Faye
  • The Big Noise — An audition of the radio day by Robert Fontaine, Marion Sturges-Jones, and Isabel Scott Rorick with photographs by Fritz Henle

    • NARRATIVE:

  • Mission from Marrakech by Upton Sinclair and illustrated by George Biddle with introduction by Sterling North
  • Betrayal by Guido D’Agostino
  • Fervor on the Frontier by Fairfax Downey and illustrated by Reginald Marsh
  • Yarns

    • WORLD OF ’47:

  • Earth’s Sleeping Fury by Fredrick Pough
  • Born to the World by Hannah Lees
  • Tahiti Without Technicolor by Francois Sinnette with a Gaugin lithograph
  • Way of the World

    • CAMERA:

  • Gjon Mili, Second Splitter by Jonathan Randolph with color photographs by Gjon Mili

    • ’47 VARIETIES:

  • Communications
  • Hollywood’s Adolescence by Richard G. Hubler

    • VISUAL:

  • Marsh’s Women by Gordon Ewing with paintings by Reginald Marsh

    • DISCOVERY:

  • The Health You Were Born With by J.D. Ratcliff and illustrated by Dr. Frank Netter
  • The Laboratory — Edited by David O. Woodbury

    • REPORT:

  • Continent at the Crossroads by Ray Josephs

    • MEN AND WOMEN:
    Russia’s First Lady by Richard E. Lauterbach and illustrated by Richard Sargent

  • Second Graduation by H.A. Overstreet
  • Monster of Rue Le Sueur by William Miller and illustrated by William Gropper
  • No Words to Say It by Joe Martin as told to Matthew Diamond with illustration by Ted Burrows
  • Other People

    • 1947-06 47 Magazine Contents

    1947/06 –

  • Life With Authors by Russel Crouse

    • DISCOVERY:

  • 100 Years to Live by Martin W. Gumpert with photograph by Lisa Larsen
  • Tests for Candidates by Clifton Fadiman
  • Squids and Supersquids by Ivan T. Sanderson
  • Closeup: Wild Birds with photographs and text by Hal H. Harrison
  • Spare the Twaddle, Save the Child by NEarnest Hooton
  • The Laboratory — Edited by David O. Woodbury

    • WORLD OF ’47:

  • 146 Days to Venus by Richard G. Hubler with illustrations by Harold Faye
  • May a New American Speak? by Juanita Wegner with photograph by Lewis Hine
  • To the Class of ’47 by O. Istris with photograph by Lisa Larsen with drawings by Robert W. Cowan
  • Way of the World
  • Martinique by Stuart Cloete with photographs by Mildred Cloete and Aubrey P. Janion
  • Poland: Land of People with photographs by John Vachon and Text by Adam de Hegedus

    • THE UNITED STATES:

  • Letter from Main Street by Dale Kramer with photographs by Charles Phelps Cushing
  • Shadow Over Our Children by Herbert Yahraes
  • Department of the Interior

    • VISUAL:

  • Point Lobos with photographs by Will Connell with lines from Robinson Jeffers
  • Folklore on Canvas with paintings by George Biddle and William Gropper with text by Gordon Ewing

    • NARRATIVE:

  • Time of Life by Christopher Morley with illustrations by Lucille Corcos
  • Yarns

    • REPORT:

  • Living Space for Americans by James R. Miller with photographs by Arthur Rothstein and Carl Mydans with drawings by M. Neuwirth

    • ’47 VARIETIES:

  • Communications
  • Two Years Down the Drain by S.J. Perelman with illustrations by Jack Markow

    • MEN AND WOMEN:
    Dubos: Nemesis of T.B. by Yvonne Cooperman

  • Philip Evergood – Paintings – By John Blomshield
  • Beethoven of Beale Street by J.D. Ratcliff with photograph by Gjon Mili and drawing by Bruce Mitchell
  • World Showman by Frederick G. Brownell with photograph by Leo Rosenthal
  • Other People

    • 1947-07 47 Magazine Contents

    1947/07 –

  • A Quintet of ’47 Men – An introduction by Clifton Fadiman

    • WORLD OF ’47:

  • Concepts for the Atomic Age by Stuart Chase with drawings by George Reckas
  • One World on an Island by Blake Clark with photographs by Henry Inn

    • NARRATIVE:

  • The Search — A Story by Vincent McHugh with illustrations by Hardie Gramatky
  • She On a Blue Horse — A Story by Robert Fontaine with illustrations by Atty van den Berg
  • Wedding in Vernois — A Story by Otto Schrag
  • Yarns
  • The Wild Duck’s Nest — A Story by Michael McLaverty with illustration by Churchill Ettinger

    • DISCOVERY:

  • High Blood Pressure by Howard Taubman with diagrams by Dr. Frank Netter
  • Birth Control: New Style by William A. Lydgate
  • The Laboratory — Edited by David O. Woodbury

    • THE UNITED STATES:

  • John Wedda
  • Gospel According to New England with poetry by Robert P. Tristram Coffin and water colors by John Wedda
  • Autocrats in the House by Carey Longmire with painting by William Gropper
  • Radio’s Superhighway by Harland Manchester

    • ’47 VARIETIES:

  • Communications

    • REPORT:

  • The World’s Food by J.D. Ratcliff and illustrations by Maurice Rawson

    • MEN AND WOMEN:
    The Empire’s Alexander by Thomas Drake Durrance with photograph by Yousuf Karsh

  • Most Likely to Succeed by William A. Lydgate
  • Tick-Tock by Frederick G. Brownell
  • Take My Cotton Aboard by Roark Bradford with illustrations by T. Lux Feininger
  • Old Words and New Meanings with color cartoons by Paul Seckel
  • This Morning I Awakened — A Poem by Patrick McDonogh
  • The Widow Roosevelt by Lilian Rixey with photograph by Yousuf Karsh and illustration by Condie Lamb
  • Other People
  • 47’s People

    • 1947-08 47 Magazine Contents

    1947/08 – ’47 REPORT:

  • Our Stake in Germany by James P. Warburg

    • WORLD OF ’47:

  • 1947 is not 1919 by Walter Lippmann
  • Looking Down at the Sky by Jerome S. Meyer
  • A Voters’ Revolution by Roscoe Drummond
  • Vacation Without Fears by J.D. Ratcliff
  • One Per Cent of Your Pay by Maxwell Stewart
  • Noble Experiment in France by Waverley Root

    • NARRATIVE:

  • The Necessary Knocking at the Door by Ann Petry
  • The Blonde in the Ambassador’s Bed by Lawrence Treat
  • A Visitor for Dominguez by Josephina Niggli

    • MEN AND WOMEN:
    Tennis for a Silver Bowl by Allison Danzig

  • Centennial of an Epic by Carey Longmire
  • The Maestro Does Not Pose by Herbert Gehr
  • Baker Street Irregulars by Tom Mahoney
  • Leon Kroll: Artist Without Isms by Elizabeth Sacartoff
  • People: Three Aspects by Steinberg

    • ’47 VARIETIES:

  • August of ’47, Fight On! by Ogden Nash
  • Heavy Fantastic by Bruce Mitchell and Marion Charles Hatch
  • Washington Is a First-Name Town by Bert Andrews
  • Snow in Milwaukee from The Milwaukee Journal
  • The Laboratory
  • Way of the World
  • Communications
  • ’47 August Contributors

    • 1947-09 47 Magazine Contents

    1947/09 – ARTICLES:

  • Ward Heeler by Morris Markey with photographs by William Vandivert
  • A Happy Family–If by Mary Fisher Langmuir
  • Triumph of the Female by Waverley Root
  • The 64 Who Run America by John Gunther
  • St. Valentine’s Day Massacre by Herbert Asbury
  • Whose History? by Aldous Huxley
  • Farewell to Margaret O’Brien by Marion Hargrove
  • Supersonics: Faster Than Brass by Philip McKee

    • NARRATIVE:

  • The Three Aspects by Christopher La Farge
  • Sore Loser by Robert Smith
  • Who Will Die for Me? by Robert Payne
  • The Return of F.D.R. by C.S. Forester

    • WORDS AND PICTURES:

  • Ballet, 1947 by Gjon Mili
  • Caustic Art of Jack Levine by Elizabeth McCausland
  • Capa – Man Who Invented Himself by John Hersey
  • Pour Le Sport by Robert Osborn
  • The Lure of the Game by Hy Peskin
  • –At Present Prices by John Lardner
  • Is This Seat Taken? Yes by Ogden Nash
  • Your Quanta Personality by Lloyd Mann with photographs by Stephen Fay
  • An Author or Eight

    • 1947-10 47 Magazine Contents

    1947/10 – ARTICLES:

  • You Worry the World by J.B. Priestley
  • Gertrude Stein Makes Sense by Thornton Wilder
  • I Like American and American by Gertrude Stein
  • Some Men Are Virgins by Ilka Chase
  • Behind the Icy Curtain by Lee Hargus
  • My Not So G.O.P. by Bartley C. Crum
  • After Two Caesars by Carlo Levi
  • Pop. 1,317 by John M. Harrison
  • New Eye, New Universe by David O. Woodbury

    • NARRATIVE:

  • Something Suitable to the War by Martha Gellhorn
  • Tough Button by Pietro di Donato
  • Solo on the Drums by Ann Petry
  • Grandpa’s Dod-Limbed World by Robert Ruark
  • Up the Bare Stairs by Sean O’Faolain

    • WORDS AND PICTURES:

  • ’47 Author-Review — Four Paintings by Carlo Levi
  • Jam Session by Gjon Mili — Four Photographs
  • More capa Inventions — Irwin Shaw, William Saroyan, Vincent Sheean and Others
  • The Disquieting Mr. Dean by Clifton Fadiman
  • Cartoons by Abner Dean

    • 1947-11 47 Magazine Contents

    1947/11 – ARTICLES:

  • Taft: Model-T Candidate by Fred Rodell
  • Make It With Kissing by Herman Wouk
  • Must Marriage Be for Life? by Margaret Mead
  • Robert Payne – Literature Unlimited by Annalee Jacoby
  • Up in Benchley’s Room by Nathaniel Benchley
  • Still Time for Good Sense by Bertrand Russell
  • The Trouble With the Democrats by A.A. Berle, Jr.
  • Reforming Old Man River by John Pfeiffer
  • Lend-Lease for Peace by James P. Warburg
  • Leonard Bernstein – Molto Furioso by Henry Simon
  • Er … of, How to Make a Speech by Jack Alan
  • What I Like to Read by John S. Sumner

    • NARRATIVE:

  • The Hollow Heart by M.F.K. Fisher
  • Bellagamba’s Pheasant by Guido D’Agostino
  • The Man With One Arm by Irwin Shaw

    • WORDS AND PICTURES:

  • New York Nights by Ernest Fiene and Introduction by Fred Ringel
  • Gjon Mili — Four Camera Parallels with Introduction by John-Paul Sartre
  • The Real National Game by Hy Peskin
  • Dusky Sally by Vincent McHugh
  • Open Season by R. Osborn

    • 1947-12 47 Magazine Contents

    1947/12 –

  • Sex Behavior of the American Male by James R. Miller
  • Belief and Painting by Forbes Watson with painting by Abraham Rattner
  • St. Bypass-Under-the-Bridge — A Story by Christopher Morley
  • 120,000 Christmas Neckties by Lloyd Mann
  • Pagava of Paris by Irving Wallace
  • Alaskan Blues by Gilbert W. Gabriel with photographs by Oscar Sweet
  • When the Flag Goes By by Stuart and Marian Chase
  • Turkey in the Morning by John Lardner
  • The Divorce — A Poem by Rolfe Humphries
  • What the British Think of Us by William A. Lydgate
  • The Other Night — A Poem by Hugh Chisholm with painting by Margaret Stark
  • Images of Our Future by Clifton Fadiman with drawings by David Fredenthal
  • Carmencita — A Story by Waverly Root
  • State Department In-Basket by Jay Franklin
  • Middle C is Red by Boris Lang
  • Three Christmases by Jack Aistrop
  • Fiction: Mass vs. Mind by Diana Trilling