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1959-10 Esquire Magazine Contents

1959/10 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Milton Glaser.

Contents as taken from the index page of this issue are as follows:
ARTICLES:

  • “What Makes Sammy Jr. Run?” by Thomas B. Morgan about Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • “The Intellectuals Last Chance” by C. Wright Mills
  • “Blue Grass Background: Folk Music With Overdrive” by Alan Lomax
  • “Budapest in 1945” by John Phillips
  • “Cars That Drive Themselves” by D.M. Bartley
  • “The Creative Agony of Arthur Miller” by Allan Seager
  • “Parkinson’s Law on Travel” by C. Northcote Parkinson
  • “The Ideal Candidate: 1960” by Eric Sevareid

    • TELEVISION PLAY:

  • “The Secret of Freedom” by Archibald MacLeish

    • FEATURES:

  • “Eighty-One Summers” by Jesse Stuart
  • “Georgie Porgie” by J. Daniel Greenburg

    • FICTION:

  • “In the Fresh Air” by Edward Doyle
  • “The Snake” by Chester Himes
  • “Strange Love” by Louis Paul

    • PICTURED ESSAYS:

  • “Country Music Goes to Town” — Paintings by Tom Allen
  • “La Petite Pascale Petit” — Photographed by Saul Leiter & Jack Nisberg

    • Other Features Include:

  • Several articles in the “Wearables” section, Travel (Mexico), Potables, regular Departments and Briefs

    • 1959-05 Esquire Magazine Contents

    1959/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Robert Benton and Charmatz.

    Contents as taken from the index page of this issue are as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • “The Orchestration of Crisis” by Col. William R. Kintner
  • “Something Fishy in the Enclaves” by John Sack
  • “Pomp and Pageantry in Pakistan” by H.E. Mohammad Ali
  • “The Brutal Art of Bench Jockeying” by Jack Orr
  • “The Civic Need for Skid Row” by Elmer Bendiner
  • “Spain’s Coming Ordeal” by Emmet John Hughes
  • “The Mystery Battle of World War II” by Edmund G. Love

    • SUPPLEMENT:

  • “The Men Who Made the New Germany” — Photographed by Burt Glinn
  • “Politics: Germany After Adenauer” by Franz Spelman
  • “Economics: The Future of the Miracle”
  • “Culture: The Block of Collective Shame”
  • “Prosit to Precision
  • “Mark of Shame” by Willi Heinrich

    • BEHIND THE SCENES:

  • “The Staging of a Play”

    • PERSONALITY:

  • “The Plastic Personality of Jonathan Winters” by Peter Maas

    • FICTION:

  • “Hansel and Gretel in Search of An Art Form” by J. Daniel Greenburg
  • “An American Writer” by Robert Lowry
  • “The Baby Grand” by Paul Byron Bishop
  • “Mark of Shame” by Willi Heinrich
  • “Blue Silk and Tuesday” by Orville C. Grannis

    • PICTURED ESSAY:

  • “Sure-Fire Formula for Box Office Bonanza” by Gjon Mili

    • Other Features Include:

  • Several articles in the “Travel” section, plus Potables, regular Departments and Briefs

    • 1959-07 Esquire Magazine Contents

    1959/07 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Contents as taken from the index page of this issue are as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • “The Future of the Republican Party” by Senator Jacob Javits
  • New Directions in Auto Design (All From Italy) by D.M. Bartley
  • “Last Great Air Battle” by Peter Maas
  • “The Mass Leisure Class” by Paul Goodman
  • “The Swimming Pool Problem” by M.J. Arlen
  • “Oh My Gosh! It’s Frothingslosh” by Joseph Kaselow

    • PERSONALITIES:

  • Portrait of a Paradox, or How to be Nice Though President” by Martin Mayer
  • “World’s Most Powerful Musician” by Joseph Wechsberg about Herbert von Karajan

    • FICTION:

  • “The Venus Clock” by Ira Wallach
  • “Wake Up, Stupid” by Mark Harris

    • PORTFOLIO:

  • “Summer Girl” — Photographed by Bert Stern

    PICTURED ESSAYS:

  • “London By Helicopter” — Photographed by Louis Renault
  • A Visual Analysis of the Characters from Hamlet” — Sketches by Ben Shahn

    • Other Features Include:

  • Several articles in the “Wearables” section, plus Travel, Potables, regular Departments and Briefs

    • 1959-11 Esquire Magazine Contents

    1959/11 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Robert Benton and Jerome Kuhl.

    Contents as taken from the index page of this issue are as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • “The Mind of an Outlaw” by Norman Mailer
  • “The Wham in Pro Football” by Thomas B. Morgan
  • “The Ferrari Jinx” by Robert Daley
  • “Friend, This is the Times Literary Supplement” by Martin Mayer

    • PERSONALITY:

  • “Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Angry Voice of Harlem” by Dan Wakefield

    • FEATURES:

  • “Mano-a-Mano” by Eric Sevareid
  • “Nature Since Darwin” by Wright Morris
  • “Polynesia on Route 1” by A.J. McClane
  • “The Boom in the Shotgun Sports” by James C. Rikhoff

    • FICTION:

  • “Twentieth-Century Duel” by Ken Kolb
  • “Concerning the Killing of a Bear” by Matt Walton
  • “The Solitary Life of Man” by Leo E. Litwak
  • “The Maid of Scarborough” by Jean Ross Justice
  • “Dr. Murke’s Collection of Silences” by Heinrich Boll

    • PICTURED ESSAYS:

  • “Che Bella! Che Divertente!” (Sophia Loren) — Photographed by Saul Leiter
  • “Marlon Brando Sketched” — Drawings by Harvey Kurtzman

    • Other Features Include:

  • Several articles in the “Wearables” section, plus Travel, Potables, regular Departments and Briefs

    • 1959-06 Esquire Magazine Contents

    1959/06 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Contents as taken from the index page of this issue are as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • “The Future of Twenty American Cities” by Martin Mayer
  • “Big Fish, Big Men, Big Money” by Reginald Wells
  • “The Air-Conditioned Mountain” by Louis Renault
  • “Juliette Greco: She Plays a Cool Strumpet” by Helen Lawrenson
  • “No More Great Killers” by Rex Smith
  • “Shangri-La is Still There” by John Keats
  • “Rheum and Bored” by Hyman Goldberg

    • PERSONALITIES:

  • “The Missile-Age Executive” about Convair’s Tom Lanphier by Peter Maas
  • “The Dangerous Precedent of James Hagerty” by Joseph Kraft

    • SUPPLEMENT:

  • “Early Havoc” by June Havoc

    • FICTION:

  • “Set This House on Fire” by William Styron

    • PICTURED ESSAYS:

  • “Big Fish, Big Men, Big Money” — Photographed by Bruce Davidson
  • “The Air-Conditioned Mountain” — Photographed by Louis Renault

    • Other Features Include:

  • Several articles in the “Wearables” section, plus Travel, Potables, regular Departments and Briefs

    • 1959-09 Esquire Magazine Contents

    1959/09 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Robert Benton and Ben Somoroff.

    Contents as taken from the index page of this issue are as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • “A Sophisticated Approach to the Stock Market” by Burton Crane
  • “The Self-Deceivers” by Alan Harington
  • “The Heart of Peru” by Robert W. Marks
  • “The Subourbonites” by Jerome Beatty, Jr.
  • “New York’s New Napoleon of Haute Cuisine” by Gilbert Millstein
  • “Observations on Ezra Pound” by Richard Avedon & Truman Capote
  • Why Resign From the Human Race?” by Harvey Swados
  • A Ghandi in Sicily: Danilo Dolci” by Philip Evans
  • “The Seine” by Blake Ehrlich

    • FICTION:

  • “Gunplay” by Anthony C. West
  • “Black Is Not the Color of My True Love’s Hair” by Robert Penn Warren
  • “Unbelievable Characters” by Howard Nemerov

    • PICTURED ESSAYS:

  • “Gina Lollobrigida Gives a Pagan Dance Recital” — Photographed by Saul Leiter
  • “10th Street” — Photographed by John Cohen

    • SUPPLEMENT:

  • “Esquire’s Basic guide to the Basic College Week End” — Sketches by Milton Glaser

    • Other Features Include:

  • Several articles in the “Wearables” section, plus Travel, regular Departments and Briefs

    • 1958-05 Esquire Magazine Contents

    1958/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Jerome Kuhl.

    Contents as taken from the index page of this issue are as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • “The Square Root of Crazy” by Arthur Daley is about the Dodgers coming to Los Angeles
  • “America’s Chess Game Against Destruction”
  • “$3,000 Week-End House”
  • Major Marvels in the Minor Leagues”
  • “Segregation in the Churches” by Wesley Shrader, DD

    • PERSONALITIES:

  • “Carmen Is a Lady” about Rise Stevens by Martin Mayer
  • “Ruby Braff: Missing Link of Jazz” by Nat Hentoff
  • “Forever Flynn” about Errol Flynn by Helen Lawrenson

    • FICTION:

  • “Ronnie on the Mound” by Jack Kerouac
  • “The Cat in the Picture” by Wright Morris
  • “The Mountain Road” by Theodore H. White
  • “Mr. Lawton’s Secret” by Frederic Morton
  • “Panic in Paradise” by Ray Duncan

    • SUPPLEMENT:

  • “San Francisco: The Magnet City” by Lynn White, Jr.

    • PICTURED ESSAYS:

  • “Forerunners of the Electric Shaver”
  • “Tristesse Mistress” — Photographed by Peter Basch
  • “San Francisco: The Magnet City” — Photographed by Bruce Davidson

    • Other Features Include:

  • Several articles in the “Wearables” section, plus Travel, Potables, regular Departments and Briefs

    • 1958-06 Esquire Magazine Contents

    1958/06 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Henry Wolf and Ben Somoroff.

    Contents as taken from the index page of this issue are as follows:
    ARTICLES:

  • “The Summer Job I Had as a Boy” compiled by Sanford Socolow
  • “The Lesson of Khrushchev’s Little Red Schoolhouse” by Robert M. Hutchins
  • “80 Hours Around Mike Todd: The Last Happy Days”
  • “How to Become an American Spy” by Enno Hobbing

    • PERSONALITY:

  • “Confessions of a Nervous Pro” by Lew Hoad

    • AUTOMOBILE FEATURES:

  • “The Automobile’s Classic Decades” — Water colors by Leslie Saalburg
  • “Foreshadowing the Automobile’s Future”
  • “The Whirling World of Juan Manuel Fangio” by Josh Greenfeld

    • FICTION:

  • “Geremio” by Pietro di Donato
  • “Among the Dangs” by George P. Elliott
  • “The Subject of a Dream: A Fable” by Robert M. Coates
  • “Year of Grace” by Harvey Swados

    • PICTURED ESSAYS:

  • “Innovations in Shooting Stars” about Jean Seberg

    • Other Features Include:

  • Several articles in the “Wearables” section, plus Travel, Potables, regular Departments and Briefs

    • 1954-07 Esquire Magazine Contents

    1954/07 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Henry Wolf.

    Contents as taken from the index page of this issue are as follows:
    THIS MAN’S WORLD:

  • “Polyandry for All” by Paul Gallico

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Papa Is a Patsy” by Dick Reddy
  • “The Vanishing Playboy” by Igor Cassini
  • “Minneapolis: Heart of the Aquatennial” by Cedric Adams
  • “Carol Cherie” about Martine Carol by Paul E. Deutschman
  • “The Real Pro” about golf’s John Inglis and tennis’ Mercer Beasley by Jack O’Brien
  • “Enough Rope Darling” by Ray Brock

    • PERSONALITY:

  • “Lion-Hearted Leprechaun” about Eddie Dowling by Helen Lawrenson

    • FICTION:

  • “The Blow” by Liam O’Flaherty
  • “Dr. Fabian’s One Man Show” by Meyer Levin
  • “Bush River” by Joyce Cary
  • “A Raven Ain’t Nothing But a Bird” by Charles Embree
  • “The Vital Answer” by Daniel B. Dodson
  • “The Hidden Link” by Frank Gilbert
  • “Pessimo the Great” by Charles Simmons
  • “The Game Room” by William Lindsay Gresham

    • PICTORIAL:

  • “Esquire’s Lady Fair” — Silvana Mangano — Photography by John Rawlings
  • “Esquire’s Avenues of Fashion” — Water Color by W. David Shaw
  • “Paris: Foibles & Follies”
  • “Automotive Fashions: Oldsmobile Starfire”

    • Other Features Include:

  • Several articles in the “Wearables” and “Esquire’s Gift Guide for Father’s Day” section, plus Travel, Edibles, Potables, regular Departments and Briefs