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1936-05-16 Liberty Magazine Contents May 16, 1936

1936/05/16 —
Claudette Colbert cover painted by Victor Tchetchet

SHORT STORIES:

  • “Parents Are Important” by Faith Ellen Smith with illustration by Frank Godwin
  • “A Good Manager” by Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champ, with illustration by J. Clinton Shepherd
  • Thumbnail Sketches by Millie the Manicurist as told to Dorothy Day
  • “In the Eyes of the Law” — Liberty’s Short Short by J. Allan Dunn

    • SERIALS:

  • “Without Warning” – Part 4 by Major George Fielding Eliot and Edward Doherty with illustration by Charles Bryson
  • “Company of the Damned” – End by Captain W.J. Blackledge with illustration by Walter M. Baumhofer
  • “Rich Man’s Son” — Part 9 by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. with illustration by Frank Swain

    • ARTICLES:

  • Are the Republican Candidates Physically Fit to be President? by Will Irwin
  • Portrait of a Fighter by James L. Doherty, the story of Judge John H. Lyle, Al Capone’s first opponent
  • What Jafsie Told His High School Girls by Katharine Arthur Dunning
  • Why Claudette Colbert Does Not Fear Religious Differences in Her Marriage by Frederick L. Collins
  • Why Do Planes Crash? by Swanee Taylor
  • Is the Golf Snob on the Way Out? by Myles Cohen

    • REGULAR FEATURES:

  • Editorial by Bernarr Macfadden
  • ‘Tisn’t So by R.E. Doan
  • Twenty Questions
  • Marriage, Mirth, Menace – Movie Reviews by Beverly Hills, with 3 star reviews of Small Town Girl and The Moon’s Our Home
  • Good Books by Oliver Swift
  • $2,000 Crossword Puzzle Contest
  • Liberty’s Amateur Writers Page – Conducted by Major Bowes
  • To the Ladies! by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin
  • Fashion Flashes from Paris by Doramiller
  • Vox Pop
  • It Happened In–

    • 1952-09-23 Look Magazine Contents for September 23, 1952

    1952/09/23 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Ava Gardner and Susan Hayward from 20th Century-Fox; Weymouth local football player by James Hansen; Nurse Irene Blomgren by Maurice Terrell; Senator Richard Nixon by Michael Vaccaro; Billy Williams by Wide World

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATION:

  • New York, N.Y.
  • Good for a Laugh by Bennett Cerf
  • “I WilL Devote Myself–“
  • Too Much Education? by Colgate W. Darden, Jr. as told to Virginius Dabney
  • Why Nixon Was Nominated by Victor lasky
  • Birdie and God
  • 18 Ways to Stay Alive by William Houseman
  • She’s a Crystal Girl
  • Opinions Unlimited by Hubert Pryor
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington

    • THE WORLD:

  • Germany’s Lonely Jews by William Attwood
  • LOOK Reports

    • SPORTS:

  • Dempsey Could Flatten Today’s Heavies All in One Night by Gene Tunney as told to Tim Cohane and illustrated by Willard Mullin
  • Championship High-School Football

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Susan Hayward – Movie Review
  • Ride, Billy, Ride! featuring Billy Williams

    • ART:

  • Donati

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Charles James — Designs Sofas and Redesigns Women

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • This Fall … You Will Be Walking On Air

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • A Chair for Mira
  • A New Kind of Apple Barrel

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime
  • Full-page ad from The Watchmakers of Switzerland includes a color illustration by Norman Rockwell with a boy getting his watch inspected (illustration a little larger than half page)