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1957-12 The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents December 1957

1957/12 — Contents as follows:

  • Cover design by Gyorgy Kepes
  • Atlantic Reports: Washington – Germany – Red China – Colombia
  • The Right to Vote by Senator Paul H. Douglas
  • Mid-Summer — A Poem by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • The Years with Ross by James Thurber
  • The Guest — A Story by Albert Camus
  • Hospital Ward by Anonymous
  • Our Isolation from the Arab World by William R. Polk
  • The Basket Maker — A Poem by Padraic Colum
  • That Beautiful Shore — An Atlantic First by James M. Idema
  • Song for a Bad Night — A Poem by John Moffitt
  • The Public and Smoking by Clarence Cook Little

    • Mass Communications – An Atlantic Supplement (Section over 75 pages)

  • What Makes News by T.S. Matthews
  • Motion Pictures and Pay TV by Mervyn LeRoy
  • Discipline and Reward: A Writer’s Life by Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • The Camera’s Eye by Yousuf Karsh
  • Speaking of Music by Leonard Bernstein
  • Textbooks That Don’t Teach by Oscar Handlin
  • The Vanishing Comedian by Steve Allen
  • Books: Gunpowder of the Mind by David Riesman
  • Norman Rockwell ‘s America by Wright Morris
  • Telephones, People and Machines by J.R. Pierce
  • The Birth of Radio Drama by Richard Hughes
  • What a Journalist Needs by Louis Lyons
  • Book Publishing: The Changes I’ve Seen by Alfred A. Knopf

    • Atlantic Bookshelf:

  • The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks
  • Reader’s Choice by Charles Rolo
  • Children’s Books: A Christmas List by Charlotte Jackson
  • Accent on Living
  • They Shall Have Music by John M. Conly

    • 1941-01 The American Magazine Contents for January 1941

    1941/01 — Cover is a natural color photograph by Leon De Vos

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

    SHORT NOVEL:

  • “The Halfway Heart – Complete in this Issue by Laurette MacDuffie Knight

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Talk of the Town” — Part 2 of 5 — by Ann Pinchot and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Wildcat 13” — Part 4 of 6 by Tom Gill

    STORIES:

  • “Two in a Glass House” by Eleanor DeLamater and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Eleven Years” — Vignette by Denis Plimmer
  • “Christmas in the Heart” by Rachel Field with a full-page color illustration by Norman Rockwell
  • “It Must Be Love” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Might-Have-Been” by Marion Baxter Taylor and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “His Own Medicine” by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • “Echo of War” by Thomas Rourke and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “The Meanest Man” — Storiette by Paul Schubert
  • “Fire by Night” — Short short story by Constance Wagner
  • “Dumb Guy” — Vignette by Gordon Gaskill

    • ARTICLES:

  • The Blue Bird Found Again by Maurice Maeterlinck
  • King of Canada by Beverly Smith about Prime Minister Mackenzie King

  • Adventures of a Sneeze Hound by Katherine Madison
  • How to Get Along in the Army by William G. McChesney
  • Half a Dozen Ways to Get Rich by William D. Collidge, Ph.D.
  • Warning–Keep Out! by John Winter
  • Tell It to the Judge by Michael Angelo Musmanno
  • Star Salesman by Clarence Woodbury
  • Art Begins at Home by James C. Boudreau
  • Let ‘er Roll by Jerome Beatty
  • Science Steps Up the Game by Norman V. Carlisle
  • Santa Claus Becomes a Citizen by Ruth Moore Morriss
  • Accuracy by H.W. Phelps

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Interesting People in the American Scene
  • Along the Way
  • Scattergood Says
  • New Eyes for the Needy
  • Why Don’t They?
  • Johnny-On-the-Spot
  • American Parade
  • Streamlining the Classics
  • The Animal Fair
  • Getting Along
  • How Emotional Are You
  • Signs of the Times
  • New Ways to Enjoy Your Home
  • Word Teasers
  • Around the House
  • Carrots O’Hara
  • It’s the Law!
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Life’s Little Temptations and 13 other comics

    • 1935-04 The American Magazine Contents for April 1935

    1935/04 — Cover is a natural color photograph by C. C. Beall

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

    FICTION:

  • “Opera Hat” — Part 1 of a serial by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Admiration” by Edward Doherty and illustrated by Ronald McLeod
  • “She Dreamed of Wings” — A short short story by MacKinlay Kantor with illustration by C. C. Beall
  • “Long Cold Night” by Allan Vaughan Elston
  • “Trophy” by Barbara Webb and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Starlight Pass” — Part 5 of a serial by Tom Gill and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Preview” by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Walter Klett
  • “Peach Crop” by Ruth Burr Sanborn with the bottom half illustrated in color across the opening two pages by Norman Rockwell
  • “Never Mind the Lady” — Part 3 of a serial by David Garth and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Broken Jade” by Leonard Falkner and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Today’s the Day” by Harold Titus and illustrated by Elmore Brown

    • ARTICLES:

  • Tools of War by General Hugh S. Johnson
  • “I Want to See the President” by Marvin H. McIntyre
  • Mysterious Neighbors by Courtney Ryley Cooper and illustrated by Robert C. Gellert
  • What Labor Really Wants — Questions by Henry F. Pringle — Answers by William Green
  • Little Bum and Little Brother
  • Another Man’s Poison by Maurice Chideckel, M.D.
  • Why They get the Crowd by Paul Gallico
  • There Is No Winter by Thomas Sugrue
  • It’s All in Fun by Hubert Kelley is about Cole Porter
  • Where Accidents Don’t Happen by Jerome Beatty is about “America’s Safest City” Evanston, Illinois

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial — Pretense by Walter Hampden
  • How to Freshen Your Walls by Roger B. Whitman
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • What’s Your Pet Worry? — Contest Announcement
  • What the Readers Say

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Versatile – Mercedes Hill
  • Unorthodox — Marriner S. Eccles
  • Ambitious — Francesca Lamonte
  • Etcher – Levon West
  • Winner – Harold C. Urey
  • Weighty – Anderson M. Baten
  • Chief – Katherine F. Lenroot
  • Top – Cole Porter
  • Wheaties ad on back cover features small head shot of Lou Gehrig with quote from the “Iron Man of Baseball”

    • 1935-01 The American Magazine Contents for January 1935

    1935/01 — Cover is a natural color photograph directed by Ray Prohaska with photography by F. Alden Weeks

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

    MYSTERY NOVEL:

  • “Eight Bells” by Frederic Arnold Kummer and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

    FICTION:

  • “Even the Ocean Laughed” by David Garth and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Starlight Pass” — Part 2 of a serial by Tom Gill and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “The Man With the Nose” by Walter D. Edmonds and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Willie Takes a Step” by Don Marquis with color illustration spreading across top two-thirds of first two pages by Norman Rockwell
  • “Until It’s Over” by MacKinlay Kantor with drawing by August Bleser, Jr.
  • “Beauty’s Daughter” — Part 4 of a serial by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “I Could Brighten Your Life!” by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
  • “The Closed Room” — Conclusion of a serial by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe

  • “Courage for Two” by Brassil Fitzgerald and illustrated by Ronald McLeod
  • “Magic Circle” by Hugh MacNair Kahler and illustrated by C.D. Williams

    • ARTICLES:

  • Our $280,000,000 Gamble by Beverly Smith is about the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
  • We Jews by George E. Sokolsky
  • Short-Weight Justice by Jerome Beatty with illustration by Rollin Kirby
  • A Matter of Size by Frank J. Taylor
  • The Government and the Banks by Thomas F. Woodlock
  • Have You Paid Your Doctor? by Webb Waldron with drawing by Ralph Stein
  • Today’s Liquor Problems — Questions by Henry F. Pringle — Answers by Joseph H. Choate, Jr.
  • Amateur Night by Hubert Kelley
  • Time Out! by Archibald Rutledge and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • What the New Congress Faces by Frank R. Kent with cartoon by Harold Talburt
  • Desert Heat and London Fog by Thomas Sugrue and illustrated by Edward A. Wilson

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial — Growth by Robert A. Millikan
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • As Others See You by Eleanor Early
  • “The Thing I’ve Always Wanted to Do” — Contest Announcement
  • Anything Wrong With the Plumbing? by Roger B. Whitman
  • What the Readers Say

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Fire-eater – Bernard R. Hubbard
  • Prexy – Mary E. Woolley
  • Father Time – Paul Sollenberger
  • Scenographer – Russell Patterson
  • Players – Fred & Carol Stone
  • Needle-Pusher – Lucia Coulter
  • Iceman – Roy Worters
  • Bridge-Builder – Joseph B. Strauss

    • 1942-04 Ladies Home Journal Magazine Contents

    1942/04 — Cover design by Preston Duncan

    Contents as taken from the contents page and paging through the issue:

    COMPLETE IN ONE ISSUE NOVEL:

  • A Far-Off Music by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by Andrew Loomis

    • FICTION:

  • The Athaletic Type by Sarah Lorimer and illustrated by Robert O. Reid
  • Drivin’ Woman — Part 3 of 6 by Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier and illustrated by Al Parker
  • Aunt Ella Takes a Trip by Marcelene Cox and illustrated by Norman Rockwell
  • The Irresistible Object by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • These Foolish Things by Dorothy Black and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • The Heart Has April Too — part 4 of 5 by Gladys Taber and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Orange Juice — Penny a Glass
  • This War and teh Common Sense of Women by Dorothy Johnson
  • Could Your Husband Take It? by Bette Davis
  • If You Ask Me by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Give the First Baby Second Place by Paul Popenoe
  • How Old Are You? by Constance J. Foster
  • How America Lives
  • Meet the Griffins, of Lyndon, Kentucky
  • How Should Children Be Trained for a War Situation? by Leslie B. Hohman, M.D.

    • GENERAL FEATURES:

  • Our Readers Write us
  • Scandal Sheet – The Sub-Deb by Elizabeth Woodward
  • Fifty Years Ago in the Journal
  • Journal About Town
  • How to Torture Your Friends by Peter Storme and Paul Stryfe
  • This Is America: Breed by Struthers Burt
  • This Is a Fidgety by Munro Leaf
  • Ask Any Woman by Marcelene Cox
  • Diary of Domesticity by Gladys Taber
  • Journal’s End by Ann Batchelder
  • Reference Library

    • FASHION AND BEAUTY:

  • Your Favorite Has a Dual Personality by Wilhela Cushman
  • Make It Look Like Spring by Wilhela Cushman
  • April Additions to a Spring Wardrobe by Dawn Crowell
  • How Good Are You? by Ruth Mary Packard
  • You Might Consider by Ruth mary Packard
  • Four-Piece, Year-Round by Ruth Mary Packard
  • Heads High–Backs Straightn by Louise Paine Benjamin

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Serve Something Simple by Ann Batchelder
  • Line a Day by Ann Bathelder
  • Keeping His Best Foot Forward by Grace L. Pennock
  • Nutrition Made Easy for the Griffins by Louella G. Shouer
  • Make Your Rubber Goods Last by Margaret Davidson

    • BUILDING, INTERIOR DECORATION AND GARDEN:

  • First Victory House by Richard Pratt
  • “I Made Them Myself” by Henrietta Murdock
  • Finishing the Attic by Richard Pratt
  • A Garden of Animals by Richard Pratt

    • POETRY:

  • For An Old Fisherman by Eleanor Alletta Chaffee
  • In the Spring by George Stewart
  • City Robin by Geraldine Ross
  • Washington in April by Ethel Barnett De Vito
  • The Need of Speech by Marion Lineaweaver
  • Equivalence by Louise Shaw
  • To A Disapproving Spouse by Virginia Scott Miner
  • Sea Will Remain by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
  • Occupations by Grace Noll Crowell
  • 160 pages plus covers inside this oversized magazine