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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

    • 1919-10 The American Magazine Contents for October 1919

    1919/10 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

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

  • Frontispiece: “Who’s Who in America” illustrated by Norman Price
  • Your Rent by Abram I. Elkus
  • “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!” by Irvin S. Cobb
  • “Isn’t That Just Like a Man!” by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • A Wonderful Dog With a Dual Nature — A story by Lewis Parsons and illustrated by F.E. Schoonover
  • Another Country Boy Rises to the Top in New York — An interview with Percy H. Johnston by B.C. Forbes
  • Percy H. Johnston – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Holworthy Hall – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • What Is Wasted Time? by Holworthy Hall
  • The Telegram That Johnny Didn’t See — A story by Frank Lapham and illustrated by Leslie Brown
  • Get Into the Selling End of Your Business by Irving T. Bush
  • “Pep” — A poem by Grace G. Bostwick
  • Who’s Who in America – A love story by Bertha Runkle and illustrated by Norman Price
  • How Animals Act in Aeroplanes by Henry Woodhouse
  • William Cooper Procter – Who Thinks Fast and Straight by Merle Crowell
  • How We Divide With Our Men by William Cooper Procter
  • William Cooper Procter – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Minnie Maddern Fiske – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • A Great Actress Talks About Life on Both Sides of the Footlights by Mary B. Mullett about Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Human Beings – As Seen by a Waiter by William Kidd
  • Scattergood Matches Wits With a Pair of Sharpers — A story by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • Prize Contest Announcement: What I Think Is the Matter–And What I Would Do About It
  • Ten Good Resolutions by Dr. Frank Crane
  • We Marry 15,000 Couples A Year by P.J. Scully
  • His Masterpiece — A story by P.J. Scully
  • The Bain Twins and the Detectative — A story by Elizabeth Irons Folsom and illustrated by Norman Price
  • What Prayer Has Done for Me by the author of “Finding God in Millersville”
  • Cheaters I Have Known
  • Sid Says: If you haven’t got one of these little machines you’re the human wonder of the world
  • What Shall It Profit a Man — A serialized novel (continued) by Bruce Barton and illustrated by Paul Stahr
  • Queer Things That People Swallow–And Still Live by Philip B. Hawk
  • The Swelled Head — Stories of men who have suffered from it — by Grantland Rice

    • Interesting People:

  • Lewis Nowlan by Edgar White
  • Frank C. Bancroft by Norman Beasley
  • Joseph C. Butler by William Bruce Hart
  • Mrs. Grace W. Lawson by Bertha Snow Adams
  • We All Should Realize That We Must Be Servants by C.L.
  • Is This Success? by L.N.
  • Prize Winners: The Lonesomest Time I Ever Had
  • How I Got A Better Job by N.T.
  • The Family’s Money by John J. Pulleyn

    • 1925-10 The American Magazine Contents for October 1925

    1925/10 — Cover illustrated by Walter Beach Humphrey

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

  • What My Religion Means to Me by Edgar A. Guest
  • The Squarehead — A story by R. de S. Horn and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • I’m the Champion Free-Rider of the World by Ellis Parker Butler and illustrated by Tony Sarg
  • A Gust of Wind Played a Curious Part in MacEvoy’s Career by Helen Christine Bennett
  • Clifford F. MacEvoy – A picture in photogravure
  • Chester T. Crowell and Family – Pictures in photogravure
  • It’s a Wise Father Who Can Answer His Own Child by Chester T. Crowell
  • The Hills of Home — A story by Nelis Gardner White and illustrated by Frederic Anderson
  • Do People Get On Your Nerves? by William S. Sadler, M.D.
  • Why I Stick to the Sticks by Robert Quillen
  • “In Such a Night” — A story by Agnes Sligh Turnbull
  • He Had to Build His Ladder Before He Could Climb It by George W. Gray
  • John Murray Anderson Has Been a Jack of All Trades by Mary B. Mullett
  • John Murray Anderson – A Portrait in Photogravure
  • James M. Kurn – A portrait in photogravure
  • The Puff of a Locomotive Is Music to His Ears by Edward Hungerford is about James M. Kurn
  • They Love Their Homes as Much as You Love Yours by Archibald Rutledge
  • How Uncle Sam Coins the Money You Spend by John T. Flynn
  • The Lost Tower of Rodondo — A story by Helen Topping Miller and illustrated by George Giguere
  • Behind the Scenes at WOR by Allan Harding
  • “The Way to Lift a Hundred Tons Is to Lift It With Your Head!” by Charles G. Muller
  • Such a Nice Old Man! — A story by Marion Poschman Valensi and illustrated by Herman Pfeifer
  • Seven Sides of Human Nature as a Great Detective Sees Them by William S. Dutton
  • The Closest Calls I Ever Had by E. Alexander Powell
  • You Can’t Travel Far by Treading on People’s Toes by Orline D. Foster
  • Discarded — A serialized novel (continued) by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont

    • Interesting People:

  • Mrs. Kate Walker by Jean Piper
  • Tom Grant by Mrs. Tom Grant
  • Thomas J. Shinners by Katherine Edelman
  • Mrs. Madeline Snyder by Nina S. Purdy
  • John L. Hanna by Robert H. Denehey
  • Prize winners: Things I Wish My Wife (Or Husband) Wouldn’t Do
  • Prize Contest Announcement: My Pet Peeve
  • The Family’s Money by C.C.J.

    • 1918-01 The American Magazine Contents for January 1918

    1918/01 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

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

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “Aunt Julia” by M. Leone Bracker
  • Aunt Julia – The story of a thoroughbred by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by M. Leone Bracker
  • What the War Has Done To Me by Harry Lauder
  • Omelets for Violets – A Fair Trade — a story by Ida M. Evans and illustrated by F. Graham Cootes
  • Some of My Best Friends Are– by Montague Glass, the experiences of a Jew among Gentiles
  • Montague Glass – As I Know Him by Barney Bernard
  • Mr. and Mrs. Montague Glass – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Frank A. Vanderslip – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • How We Decide When to Raise a Man’s Salary by B.C. Forbes
  • Through Clearing — A love story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by R.M. Crosby
  • What to Do With a Bad Habit by James J. Walsh, M.D.
  • Chicago – The Glavor of the Cities Series by Jack Lait
  • The Quest of Gloria Harney — A story by Alexander Hull and illustrated by W.M. Berger
  • The Comic Side of Trouble by Bert Williams
  • Bert Williams – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Mrs. Bertha A. Rich – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • The Business Woman and the Powder puff by Bertha A. Rich
  • Prize Winning Stories: What I Have Seen Booze Do
  • Prize Contest Announcment: What I Am Getting Out of the War
  • The Making of George Groton — A novel by Bruce Barton and illustrated by Paul Stahr
  • Sid Says: What goes on in your head is older than you think

    • Interesting People:

  • Ralph A. Hayes by Fred C. Kelly
  • William F. Nevitt by Albert Sidney Gregg
  • Gay Zenola MacLaren by May Stanley
  • The Rev. F.R. Wedge by Lloyd Alan Lehbras
  • The Family’s Money

    • 1918-03 The American Magazine Contents for March 1918

    1918/03 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

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

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “Julie–the Unconquerable” by Paul Julien Meylan
  • Why We Come Smiling Out of Hell by Private Peat
  • Sid Says: Moths don’t detroy treasures like these
  • Private Peat – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • William Dudley Pelley – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Wanted–A Younger and More Practical Man — A story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by F.M. Gruger
  • Not for the Genius-But for the Average Man by Frederick W. Taylor with a note by Frank Barkley Copley
  • Peter Breaks Through His Shell – A love story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • How I Cured Myself of Being too Sensitive with illustration by Lejaren a Hiller
  • Why I Believe in Deciding Things Quickly by Al H. Woods
  • Elsie Ferguson – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • E.P. Ripley – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Ripley’s Recipe: “Get a good wife–and win men’s loyalty” by B.C. Forbes
  • Jule–The Unconquerable — A love story by Howard Markle Hoke and illustrated by Paul Julien Meylan
  • The Joy of the Job by Edna Ferber
  • The Making of George Groton – A novel (continued) by Bruce Barton with illustrations by Paul Stahr
  • The Chances of Getting Killed or Hurt in This War by Mary B. Mullett
  • Williams Sees Herself as Others Saw Her — A story by Bertha A. Rich
  • When My Boy Comes – What a prospective father has been through since war was declared

    • Interesting People:

  • Clem Yore by Jack Lait
  • George H. Beach by N.B. Beasley
  • Emily Griffith by Marie La Due
  • William S. Olive by S.R. Winters
  • Prize Contest Announcement: The Most Tender, Gentle Thing I Ever Knew a Human Being to Do
  • Prize winners: What I Would Do If I Had My Life to Live Over
  • The Family’s Money by Myron T. Herrick

    • 1925-07 The American Magazine Contents for July 1925

    1925/07 — Cover illustrated by Davis

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

  • The Ten Marks of an Educated Man by Albert Edward Wiggam
  • Thrilling Days in Dawson When the Klondike Rush Was On by Barrett Willoughby
  • “I Believe in Shooting Square With Man and God” by Harry A. Stewart
  • Charles Page – Photo in photogravure
  • Mrs. Kelly and Family – Pictures in photogravure
  • Oh, for a Million Mothers Like Mary Kelly! by William A. McGarry
  • Three Old-Timers — A story by Wilbur Hall and illustrated by Stockton Mulford
  • Give the Man You’d Like to Be a Look at the Man You Are by Edgar A. Guest
  • “It Was Me That Needed Tamin’–Not the Birds!” by William S. Dutton
  • Things I Wish My Wife Wouldn’t Do by H.B.D.
  • Scattergood Sums Up the Evidence — A story by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • How Cecil B. DeMille Works and What He Knows About Us by Mary B. Mullett
  • Cecil De Mille and Family – Picture on Photogravure
  • A.A. Schantz – Portrait in Photogravure
  • It Took Him 25 Years to Travel 150 Feet by Sherman Gwinn
  • Will Keeps His Eye on the Ball — A story by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by T.K. Hanna
  • I’m Still on the Sucker List But I Don’t Bite Any More by H.I. Phillips
  • What a Psychoanalyst Knows About You and Your Troubles by Keene Sumner
  • Blue Hyacinths — A story by Alice Garland Steele and illustrated by W.B. King
  • Obstacles Are the Biggest Bluffers in the World by Neil M. Clark
  • Adventures in Understanding: 11 – The Man Afraid David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty
  • Babies and Bathing Girls Are the Favorites of Camera Fans by George W. Gray
  • Discarded – A serialized novel — Continued by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont

    • Interesting People:

  • William A. Hadley by Neil M. Clark
  • Freda Bliss by Henry Irving Shumway
  • Reverend Harry Caldwell by Betty Ross
  • Agnes Neylon by M.P. Clifford
  • Charles H. Grakelow by Sherman Gwinn
  • Prize winners: The Best Stroke of Luck I Ever Had
  • Prize Contest Announcement: Things I Wish My Wife (Or Husband) Wouldn’t Do
  • The Family’s Money by Mrs. W.J.M.

    • 1925-09 The American Magazine Contents for September 1925

    1925/09 — Cover illustrated by Penrhyn Stanlaws

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

  • Imagination by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • He Couldn’t Get a Raise in Pay and So He Bought the Bank by Frank B. Copley
  • James H. Paul – A Portrait in Photogravure
  • Louis H. Tolhurst – Pictures in Photogravure
  • A Drop of Water Is His Movie Studio by John Monk Saunders about Louis H. Tolhurst
  • Will Deals with the Trouble-Maker — A Story by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by T.K. Hanna
  • Why Captain Neatherry Is Never Lonely by James C. Derieux
  • “Walk Right This Way, Ladies and Gentlemen!” by Helen Christine Bennett
  • Did You Ever Send a Letter and Wish You Had It Back?
  • Something Different — A story by Blanche Brace and illustrated by Norman Price
  • Why I Am Not Afraid to Die by Irving Bacheller
  • Irving Becheller – A portrait in photogravure
  • Rose Falls Bres – A portrait in photogravure
  • I Learned About Women from Law by Rose Falls Bres
  • The Wonders of Compressed Air by Harold Howland
  • What Your Finger Nails Tell the Manicure Girl by Susie Sexton
  • The Boy Who Jumped the Fence — A story by Florence Bingham Livingston and illustrated by Hanson Booth
  • Going Fast Does Not Always Mean Going Far by Neil M. Clark
  • “Captains Courageous” by George W. Gray is about deep-sea fisherman Daniel MacDonald
  • If Signs Meant Anything I Wouldn’t Be Writing This Now! by J. Frank Davis
  • The Water Bucket Baby — A baseball romance story by Jonathan Brooks and illustrated by Ray C. Strang
  • Dickey Made His Money Out of Mud by Harry A. Stewart
  • Are You the Master of Your Forks, The Captain of Your Spoons? by H.I. Phillips
  • Discarded — A serialized novel (continued) by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont
  • How Wild Animals Act in Tight Places by Archibald Rutledge

    • Interesting People:
    Ernest Newton Bagg by Eva Joy Betterley

  • Mrs. R.C. Talbot-Perkins by Margaret Norris
  • Franz Kotrba by John A. Kuder

    • Prize Contest Announcement: The Most Embarrassing Thing That Ever Happened To Me

  • Prize winners: The Biggest “White Elephant” in My Collection
  • The Family’s Money

    • 1925-06 The American Magazine Contents for June 1925

    1925/06 — Cover illustrated by M.L. McMillan

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

  • Looking Forward to the Great Adventure by Booth Tarkington
  • “It Pays to Hang On” by Harry A. Stewart
  • Emerson Carrey – A portrait in photogravure
  • Fannie Kilbourne – A portrait in photogravure
  • Fannie Kilbourne is “A Great Little Self-Starter” by Allison Gray
  • The Laughing House — A Story by Wallace Smith with illustrations by Stockton Mulford
  • Captain Whitelaw Has Raised Hundreds of Wrecks from the Sea by Magner White
  • A World Famous Singer Whose Parents Were Slaves by Mary B. Mullett is about Roland Hayes
  • Stuff of Youth — A story by Ruth Cross with Illustrations by J. Simont
  • Good Morning, Judge by John Monk Saunders and illustrated by Tony Sarg
  • The Top Is All That Can Stop You If You Keep Going Up by Neil M. Clark
  • Carl R. Gray – A portrait in photogravure
  • Frederick P. Keppel – A portrait in photogravure
  • Keppel’s Job Is to Pour Oil on Troubled Waters by Ralph Hayes
  • The Minister Who Thought He Was a Failure — A Story by Nelia Gardner White with illustrations by Herman Pfeifer
  • I Went to the Klondike On My Father’s Shoulders! by Barrett Willoughby
  • Adventures in Understanding: 10 — The Adventure of the Shabby Man by David Grayson with illustrations by Thomas Fogarty
  • How Much Exercise Is Enough for You? by Arthur A. McGovern
  • Excess Baggage by Ellis Parker Butler
  • We Americans Buy Billions of Flowers a Year by Frank B. Copley
  • “That’s What Homes Are For!” — A story by Alice Garland Steele with illustrations by T.D. Skidmore
  • Every Job Is a Dare by Wheeler McMillen
  • Thrilling Feats of the Men Who Fight Fires by Sherman Gwinn
  • A Veteran Kennel Man Tells About His Most Wonderful Dogs by William S. Dutton
  • Queer Things People Take to a Picture Framer by Norman E. White
  • Discarded — A novel (continued) by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont
  • Everybody Hates a Bad Driver by Robert Chancellor

    • Interesting People:

  • Mrs. Anna Nott Shook by Betty Shannon
  • Hans and Henry Fuhrer by Emma Mauritz Larson
  • Carl Canova by G.W.B. Witten

    • Prize Winning Entries: My Favorite Season

  • Prize Contest Announcement: The Biggest “White Elephant” in My Collection
  • The Family’s Money by Mrs. E.G.H.

    • 1918-02 The American Magazine Contents for February 1918

    1918/02 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

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

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “New York and Return” by Clarence F. Underwood
  • The Sword of Jesus by Harold Bell Wright is the first article by Wright written for any magazine
  • Harold Bell Wright – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • The Mayo Brothers – Portraits in Alco Gravure
  • “Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie” – The Story of the Mayo Brothers by Mary B. Mullett
  • New York and Return – A Love Story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • What I Have Learned from Abe Lincoln – Illustration by Paul Meylan
  • Bud Jones–Small Advertiser — A Story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by Norman Price
  • Future Life Contest — Top 5 Prizewinners
  • Edison – The “Original Man from Missouri” — by William Maxwell with a latter from Arthur Brisbane, illustrated with a photograph
  • Thomas A. Edison – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Ina Claire – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Plays Worth Seeing This Winter by Walter prichard Eaton
  • A Kind of Dog-Gone Christian – A Story by Arthur Preston Hankins with illustrations by F.E. Schoonover
  • The Making of George Groton — A novel by Bruce Barton and illustrated by Paul Stahr
  • Sid Says: If you aren’t fighting–are you worth fighting for?
  • Abner Larned, Who Knows How to Sell Things by N.B. Beasley
  • The Crisis in Room 25 – A dog story by Samuel A. Derieux with illustrations by J. Knowles Hare

    • Interesting People:

  • May Peterson by Betty Shannon
  • Frank Brown by Carl Gregg Doney
  • Leo Feist by E.M. Wickes
  • Charles H. Purdy by Bertha Snow Adams
  • Prize Contest Announcement: Why I Like My Job
  • Mistaken For My Wife’s Son by George H. McClellan
  • Getting Ahead
  • The Family’s Money

    • 1917-10 The American Magazine Contents for October 1917

    1917/10 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

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

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “771” by Clarence F. Underwood
  • My Creed – The way to happiness as I have found it – by Mary Roberts Rinehart

  • Mary Roberts Rinehart as She Appears to Bob Davis by Robert H. Davis
  • The Importance of Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore — A Story by John Barton Oxford and illustrated by F. Graham Cootes

  • Dropping the Easy Job and Tackling the Tough One by H. Thompson Rich
  • Henry L. Doherty – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Foolish Things The War May Stop by Fred C. Kelly

  • What Salary Do You Need to Make You Happy?
  • “771” – The story of a Cinderella without a Prince – by Mabel Nelson Thurston and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • How I Advertised Myself into a Better Job
  • The Four Square Man — a story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by Douglas Duer
  • A Clown Who Build a Skyscraper with Laughs by Fred Stone
  • Small inset as part of Fred Stone article: Gentleman Jim Corbett’s Tribute to Fred Stone by James J. Corbett
  • Fred Stone – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Arthur Train – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Have You a Friend Who is a Lawyer by Arthur Train
  • A Severe Attack of the Gerties A Baseball Story by Hugh S. Fullerton and illustrated by W.E. Hill
  • Sid Says: It’s the encores people call for that make lying difficult
  • Places of Retirement by David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty
  • Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber and illustrated by M. Leone Bracker

    • Interesting People:

  • Frank W. Woolworth by Ada Patterson
  • Aaron I. Dotey by Alfred Grunberg
  • Mrs. Clara Pressler by W.W. Major
  • Henry B. Gentry by Don Herold

  • Prize Contest Winners: The Man Who Helped Me Most and What He Taught Me
  • Some Windows That Sell Goods by Dale Carnegie
  • Letter froma Reader by mary Dana-Hicks Prang
  • Suggestions to Old Folks
  • Are You Using Your Wife’s Business Sense? by Alfred Grunberg
  • Bad Teeth vs. Good Health by Edwin F. Bowers, M.D.
  • Prize Contest Announcement: What I Have Seen Booze Do
  • The Family’s Money
  • Getting Ahead by Henry C. Walker

    • 1925-05 The American Magazine Contents for May 1925

    1925/05 — Cover illustrated by Anderson

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

  • Discarded — Part 1 of a serialized novel by Inez Haynes Irwin with illustrations by J. Simont
  • Pick Your Boss With Care by Keene Sumner
  • R.E. Reeves and Family – Pictures in photogravure
  • Harvey C. Miller – A portrait in Photogravure
  • Harvey Miller Starts Where Other Men Quit by William A. McGarry
  • Derickson’s Gagoo — A Story by Conrad Richter and illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman
  • A Haven for Souls in the World’s Money Market by Frank B. Copley
  • Adventures in Understanding: 9 — Jonas by David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty
  • How It Feels to be Psychoanalyzed by Lucian Cary
  • Exit Eglantine! — A Story by Blanche Brace and illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson
  • Blanche Bates Gives Her Secret of Happiness by Mary B. Mullett
  • Blanche Bates – A portrait in photogravure
  • John F. Queeny – A portrait in photogravure
  • “It’s Dangerous to be Too Good a Loser!” by Harry A. Stewart
  • “Don’t Go to Any Trouble” a story by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by T.D. Skidmore
  • Does Your World End at the Foot of Your Own Street? by Neil M. Clark
  • “It’s a Tough Job, But Somebody’s Got to Swing It” by John Monk Saunders
  • His Highness, My Dog by H.I. Phillips
  • Sentenced to Six Months — A Story by Dean L. Heffernan with illustrations by Forrest C. Crooks
  • The Romantic Story of Buttons by John Singleton
  • He Has Learned About People–From Shoes by William S. Dutton
  • How Tremendous Blocks of Granite and Cut from the Vermont Hills by Allan Harding
  • My Six Steps to Self-Mastery by W.L. George
  • Plan Your Yard As Carefully As You Do Your House by John Howe
  • Jen Starts All Over Again — A Story by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Herman Pfeifer
  • “I Can’t See People Smile, So I Like to Hear Them Laugh!” by Helen Christine Bennett
  • The World That Gets Up When You Go To Bed by Charles A. David with drawings by the author

    • Interesting People:

  • Grace Denton by Mildred Harrington
  • Henry Coppinger by Joe Hugh Reese
  • Thomas V. Miller by R.H. Denehey

    • ,li>Mrs. Cora Scovil by Gene Donald

  • J.T. Genn by Louis E. Childers
  • Top 3 Prize Winners for “The Best-Loved Person I Ever Knew”
  • Prize Contest Announcement: The Happiest Day I Ever Spent
  • The Family’s Money by Mrs. G.C.G.

    • 1934-10 American Magazine Contents

    1934/10 — Cover is a photograph by Paul Hesse

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

  • “Beauty’s Daughter” — Part 1 — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “Ten O’Clock House” by Matt Taylor and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “…and Son” by I.A.R. Wylie and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “Uncle’s in the Headlines” by Leona Dalrymple and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • Pie Supper by Rose Wilder Lane and illustrated by John R. Holmgren
  • “The Closed Room” — Part 3 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Tonight in Person” by Corey Ford and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

  • “The Mansion on the Cliff” by Leonard Falkner and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Last Love” by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by Ronald McLeod
  • “Joy Cometh” by Margaret Carpenter and illustrated by August Bleser, Jr.
  • “Smoke” by Karl Detzer and illustrated by Harry L. Timmins
  • “Jordan Running Red” by R.G. Kirk and illustrated by Rico Tomaso

    • ARTICLES:

  • Thinking Out Loud! by Henry Ford
  • Panic Over Hollywood by Henry F. Pringle
  • Strange Shores by Thomas Sugrue
  • We Vote on the New Deal by Frank R. Kent
  • Bigger Than Politics by Beverly Smith is about Robert Moses
  • Halt by Colonel Daniel W. MacCormack and illustrated by John E. Sheridan
  • 35 Feet of Freedom by Peter Barber
  • The Man Behind by Paul Gallico
  • With $2,000 to Spend by Roger B. Whitman

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial: Democracy by Arthur E. Morgan
  • Fast Ones by W.E. Farbstein
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • Its Smart to be Natural by Ransom Beckwith
  • What the Readers Say

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Baker – J.E. Humphreys
  • Miner – Josephine Roche
  • Handyman – Donald R. Richberg
  • Hat Tilter – Arthur C. Willard
  • Meteor – Hildegarde Sells
  • Lamplighter – Matthew Luckiesh
  • Youth – Thomas H. Eliot
  • Sonneteer – Ogden Nash
  • Color ad for Coca-Cola “The pause that refreshes…directed by Lubitsch” pictures Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald with Ernst Lubitsch in MGM’s “The Merry Widow”

    • 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

    • 1939-06 American Magazine Contents

    1939/06 — Cover is a photograph of Bunny Hartley by Victor Keppler

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

    SHORT NOVEL:

  • Complete in this Issue — “Dark Revenge” is a complete story by Rex Stout and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • SERIALS:

  • “Broken Voyage” — Part 3 — by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Lovers Come Back” — Part 4 — by Barrett Willoughby and illustrated by Matt Clark

    • STORIES:

  • “Always Tell a Lady” by Stewart Beach” and illustrated by John La Gatta
  • “Blessed Idiot” by Vivien R. Bretherton and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Never Mind the Wings” by Joseph Laurance Marx and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “The Mountain Goat” by William Du Bois and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Rolling Stones’ by Doug Welch and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • “5 Were Empty” by William Edward Hayes and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Hell and High Water” by James Street and illustrated by Walter Baumhofer
  • “Break-Up” — An American Vignette by Wilton Matthews

    • ARTICLES:

  • America’s Colleges of Crime by Courtney Ryley Cooper is about county jails
  • If I Were 21 by William S. Knudsen
  • Women Are Easy Marks by Margaret Fishback and illustrated by William Steig
  • Baseball’s Precious Baby by Ted Shane
  • Three Youngsters Who Run a State by John Janney
  • Nile Mother by Jerome Beatty
  • The American Way by Howard Brubaker

    • FEATURES:

  • All the Way
  • It Takes All Kinds
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Why Don’t They?
  • Have You Ever Met Him? — A Poem
  • The American Youth Forum
  • Word Teasers
  • Speaking of Animals
  • Interesting People
  • The House Detective
  • Getting Along
  • The Sign – A Poem
  • Scraps

    • 1939-09 American Magazine Contents

    1939/09 — Cover is a photograph of Jean Ware by Ashman-Selwyn

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

    SHORT NOVEL:

  • Complete in this Issue — “Over My Dead Body” is a complete Nero Wolfe story by Rex Stout and illustrated by Carl Mueller

    • SERIALS:

  • “Golden Lady” — Part 1 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Broken Voyage” — Conclusion — by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by John Gannam

    • STORIES:

  • “Song of a Man” by Hal Borland and illustrated by Frank Hoffman
  • “Offstage Kiss” by Stewart Beach and illustrated by John La Gatta
  • “Command!” by Blaine and Jean Dupont Miller and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • The Man Who Forgot — Storiette by Richard Hoffmann with drawing by Robert Gellert
  • “Let Me Be Free” by Marian Sims
  • “Hunted Man’ — Vignette — by Devery Freeman
  • “Labor of Love” by Vereen Bell and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Inquire of the Sea” by H. Vernor Dixon and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • ARTICLES:

  • Why Can’t We Live Forever? by Waldemar Kaempffert with drawings by Stevan Dohanos
  • American Youth Forum Article Awards
  • You’ve Got to Go After It by Tom Gill
  • Bob and Martha Take the Stump by Beverly Smith is about Senator and Mrs. Robert Taft
  • Are Mothers Necessary? by a Father
  • Making Pilots Out of Bookkeepers by Gordon Gaskill
  • Smart Girls Don’t by Louise Gardiner
  • God Bless the Jitterbug by Paul Whiteman

    • FEATURES:

  • The Family Money
  • Along the Way
  • Reunion Anywhere – Poem
  • American Youth Forum – 150 Additional Awards
  • The American Scene
  • .001 — Poem
  • Till the Doctor Comes
  • Interesting People
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Word Teasers
  • Meow! – Poem
  • The House Detective
  • America Youth Forum – 500 Honorable Mention Awards
  • It Takes All Kinds
  • The Animal Fair
  • Why Don’t They?
  • Full-page color ad for The Wizard of Oz

    • 1941-05 American Magazine Contents

    1941/05 — Cover is a color photograph by Thill-Patson.

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

    SHORT NOVEL:

  • “Number 1 Wife” – Complete in this issue — By Thelma Strabel

    • SERIALS:

  • “Black Water” by Philip Wylie and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “You Go Your Way” by Katharine Brush

    • STORIES:

  • “Generals Make Promises” by H. Vernor Dixon and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “From Peak to Peak” by James R. Webb and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “Little Dog” — Storiette by Mona Gardner
  • “Retreat” — Short Short by Allan Vaughan Elston
  • “Waiting for Jerry” by Joseph Laurance Marx and illustrated by Clark Fay
  • “Snob Sister” by Ruth Lyons
  • “Coming-Out Party” by Newlin B. Wildes and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Turn Table” — Vignette by Stuart Marey
  • “Blue Roadster” by Corey Ford and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Lead-Pipe Cinch” — Vignette by Bruce Nelson

    • ARTICLES:

  • Six Highways to Happiness by Charles Erwin Wilson
  • Mr. Wood Goes to Washington by Meyer Berger is about Lord Halifax
  • Big-Name Hunters by Jerome Beatty
  • Flivvers froM Hell by Gordon Gaskill
  • Full House by William A.H. Birnie
  • Outwitting Japanese Spies by Lieut. Col. H.N. Stent
  • Let Down and Live! by Miriam Townsend Sweeny
  • Hack Writer by Ernest Lehman and David Brown is about Eddie Davis
  • Bat Magic by Clarence Woodbury
  • How to Send a Telegram by B.D. Barnett
  • A Farmer Bets a Million by Ashton Hydorn
  • Our Biggest Bother by Walter F. Wanger

    • Features:

  • Along the Way
  • Scattergood Says
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Streamlining the Classics
  • Interesting People (includes Gene Tierney)
  • Why Don’t They?
  • The Animal Fair
  • It’s the Law!
  • Double Trouble is a poem by Ogden Nash

    • 1942-06 American Magazine Contents

    1942/06 — Cover is a color photograph by Thill-Patson.

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

    SHORT NOVEL:

  • “Deadly Is the Diamond” — Complete in this issue by Mignon G. Eberhart

    • SERIALS:

  • “Night Before the Wedding” — Part 1 of 3 — by Noel Pierce and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “North to Danger” — Part 3 of 4 — by Tom Gill

    • STORIES:

  • “Little Man, Fly High” by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger and illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • “Papa, Come Home” by Dunlea Hurley and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “Nothing to Report” by Richard Sale and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “The Veteran” — Short Short by Eric Hatch with illustration by Hy Rubin
  • “A Man for Cousin Emily” by Augusta Tucker and illustrated by Dean Cornwell
  • “Remember the Good Times” by Frederick Nebel and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “It Was Really for Janey” by John Rhodes Sturdy and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • “Two Were Left” — Storiette by Hugh B. Cave
  • “Miss Amelia and the President” by Carl Carmer
  • “The Tease” — Vignette by Edward Stevenson
  • “The Hiding Place” — Vignette by Constance Hawes

    • ARTICLES:

  • In Times Like These by The Editors
  • How to Win the War by Owen Lattimore
  • Wild Men from heaven by Don Eddy
  • What of the Future by Haile Sellassie I – 2-1/2 page article with one small photo of Sellassie
  • Luck of the Irish — Miniature by Pat O’Brien
  • San Jose Delivers by William Robinson
  • I Pilot a Bomber by Liut. Hugh D. Maxwell, Jr.
  • Quiz Dizzy by Jerome Beatty
  • The Girl on the Train by Kathryn Cogley
  • The Corn Is Ripe by William A.H. Birnie

    • FEATURES:

  • Interesting People – includes full page for Maria Montez with about two-thirds of that page a color photo
  • Along the Way
  • Now They’ve Done It
  • How’s Your Morale?
  • Back on Your Feet
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Why Don’t They?
  • It’s the Law!
  • What’s the Use of Being Good?
  • Signs of the Times
  • The American Pulpit
  • What Do You Do When You Get Mad?
  • Minutemen
  • Life’s Little Temptations

    • 1943-02 American Magazine Contents

    1943/02 — Cover is a natural-color photograph by Patston.

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

    SHORT NOVEL:

  • “The Commonado and the Spotted Cow” — Complete in this issue by I.A.R. Wylie

    • SERIALS:

  • “Don’t Catch Me” — Part 2 of 3 — by Richard Powell and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson
  • Star Bright — Conclusion — by Eric Hatch

    • STORIES:

  • “Young Wife” by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “It Was Always Understood” by Charles Bonner and illustrated by Michael Dolas
  • “Uniform” — Short Short by Corey Ford and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “The Saboteur” — Vignette by Dorothy S. Hanson
  • “Scattergood” by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • “Birds in the Boughs” by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by C. George Garland
  • “Do I Dare to Hope” by Elick Moll and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Parson Goes to Sea” by Paul Deresco Augsburg and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Women Have Their Way” by Sarah Litsey and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Matilda’s Just Fine” — Storiette by G.L. Newell

    • ARTICLES:

  • It’s Time to Get Up by William Corbin
  • Guadalcanal Diary by Lieut. Col. Richard C. Mangrum, USMC
  • Your Chances for Tires in 1943 by William M. Jeffers
  • The G.O.P.’s New Stand by Harrison E. Spangler
  • Girls They Write Home About
  • He Snatched $3,000,000,000 from Hitler by Sylvia F. Porter featuring Leo Crowley
  • Battle of the Rails by Beverly Smith
  • Fun in Bedlam by Jane Wyatt
  • Teacher’s Pet — Miniature by Joel McCrea
  • What We Must Do With War Criminals by U.S. Senator Elbert D. Thomas
  • How to Know Your Comrade In Arms

    • FEATURES:

  • Interesting People – includes 2 full pages in color with several photos of Ann Sothern
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Signs of the Times
  • Minutemen
  • Victory Slogan
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Quiz in Quadruplets
  • The Stars in 1943
  • Now They’ve Done It
  • Why Don’t They?
  • It’s the Law!
  • Life’s Little Temptations and Other Comics

    • 1949-04 American Magazine Contents

    1949/04 — Cover is a painting by Walter Baumhofer

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

    NOVELS:

  • “The Betrayal” by Norma Mansfield and illustrated by James Bingham
  • “Invitation to Murder” — Mystery by Peter Ordway and illustrated by Bernard D’Andrea

    • STORIES:

  • “Walk on Tiptoe” by Marjorie Carter and illustrated by Robert Patterson
  • “The Man Who Couldn’t Sleep” — Short Short Story by Paul Kunasz and illustrated by Francis Chase
  • “No One But You” by Eustace Cockrell and illustrated by Austin Briggs
  • “The Quicker Hand” by Herbert Brean and illustrated by Ben Prins
  • “The Money Tree” by Ernest K. Gann and illustrated by Lonnie Bee
  • “Consolation” — Vignette by Glenn Johnston
  • “Love That Bad Man!” by Charles Green and illustrated by Perry Peterson
  • “Swindle, Sweet and Simple” by Norbert Davis and illustrated by J. Frederick Smith
  • “Curtain Going Up” — Storiette by Donald M. Richardson

    • ARTICLES:

  • Pioneers Next Door by William Drake
  • European Recovery … Will You Get Your Money’s Worth? by Paul G. Hoffman
  • What’s Going On Inside Russia by Vance Packard
  • Toe Hold in Television by Wayne Amos
  • Big League “Wonder” Boys by Harold Rosenthal is about the 1949 rookies with small photos of Don Newcombe, Paul Hinrichs, Johnny Groth and Lloyd Merriman
  • The Trouble With Most Bridegrooms by Evelyn M. Duvall, Ph.D.
  • What It Takes to Be an Executive by Ewing W. Reilley
  • The Yankee Lord Mayor of Hamburg by Gordon Gaskill

    • FEATURES:

  • Interesting People
  • By the Way
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Why Don’t They?
  • Now They’ve Done It
  • Food Front
  • Life’s Little Problems
  • Twist a Word
  • Family Money
  • Life’s Little Miracles
  • Check That Impulse!
  • It’s the Law! and other distintive comics

    • 1943-04 American Magazine Contents

    1943/04 — Cover is a color photograph by Patston, the model is Elaine Bassett.

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

    SHORT NOVEL:

  • “The Case of the Beautiful Body” by Kelley Roos

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Enemy Sea” — Part 1 of 3 — by Abraham Polonsky and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Hearth Without Fire” — Part 2 of 3 — by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger and illustrated by John Gannan

    • STORIES:

  • “A Thing of Beauty–” by Alberta Hughes Wahl
  • “This Night We Part” by Elise Taye and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “Manhunt in Tunisia” — A Vignette by Theodore Roscoe
  • “You Don’t Know Love” by Constance Bestor and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • “Trail of Honey” by Robert Hyde
  • “Virtue and Mr. Fabian” by Sarah Litsey and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “The Very Poor Relations” by Charles Bonner
  • “His Own People” — Short Short Story by Patrick Welch
  • “So Many–All Alike” — Storiette by Dale Clark

    • ARTICLES:

  • Bloodstains in the Sky by Captain Clyde B. Walker
  • You’ve Got the British Wrong by Lord Halifax
  • American Workers Licked Rommel! by Don Eddy
  • Where is All Our Food Going? by Edward R. Stettinius
  • Inside France by Gabriel Hacket
  • Why the Russians Will Never Quit by Maurice Hindus
  • Tojo’s Nightmare by E.H. Clayton, D.D. and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • I Sing for Bing — Miniature by Mary Martin
  • Hot Whispers by Jerome Beatty

    • FEATURES:

  • Interesting People
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Victory Slogan
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Minutemen
  • Signs of the Times
  • Why Don’t They
  • Now They’ve Done It
  • Chinese Checkers
  • Can You Bring Hitler to Defeat?
  • Can You Take It?
  • It’s the Law
  • Life’s Little Temptations

    • 1949-05 American Magazine Contents

    1949/05 — Cover is a painting by Walter Baumhofer

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

    NOVELS:

  • “Never Let Go” by Dorothea Malm and illustrated by Walter Baumhofer
  • “The Hidden Witness” — Mystery by George Harmon Coxe

    • STORIES:

  • “Girl in a Gondola” by Roul Tunley and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “The Next Horizon” — Short Short Story by Oscar Schisgall with illustration by Larry Kritcher
  • “Remember New York” by Pat Frank
  • “14-Carat Dream” by Michael Fessier and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff
  • “Let’s Pretend” by Florence Jane Soman
  • “Important Day” — Vignette by James Robert
  • “Joint Account” by Greald Mygatt and illustrated by Glen Fleischmann
  • “Temptation” by Lee Rogow and illustrated by Wesley Snyder
  • “The Strangers” — Storiette by Mary Galvin and Roy Erickson

    • ARTICLES:

  • I Saw Terror by Patricia McCarthy
  • It Could Happen to You by Fredrick G. Brownell
  • The Man Behind the Big Brass by James Y. Newton is about Ferdinand Eberstadt
  • Daisies Do Tell by James F. Bender, Ph.D. with small color photos of Marilyn Maxwell and Nina Foch
  • Me and Television by Eric Hatch
  • Last Word in Gems by Edwin T. Connell
  • Will the Wasters Win Again? by Lindsay C. Warren
  • “Anyone Can Build a House” by Benedict Gunnar

    • FEATURES:

  • Interesting People, includes a full-page about Doris Day with large color photo
  • By the Way
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Food Front
  • Why Don’t They?
  • Now They’ve Done It
  • Life’s Little Problems
  • Where In the World Are These American Cities?
  • Life’s Little Miracles
  • Family Money
  • It’s the Law! and other distintive comics

    • 1942-07 American Magazine Contents

    1942/07 — Cover is a natural color photograph by Selwyn, Ltd.

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

    SHORT NOVEL:

  • “The Wobblefoot” — Complete In This Issue by Dorothy B. Hughes

    • SERIALS:

  • “Night Before the Wedding” — Part 2 of 3 — by Noel Pierce
  • “North to Danger” — Conclusion — by Tom Gill

    • STORIES:

  • “Always With Me” by Charles Bonner
  • “Three on a Match” by Hamlen Hunt
  • “I’ll Make It Up to You” by Anne Homer Warner
  • “Hair-Do” — Short Short by Dwight Hutchinson
  • “The Six Little Words” by M.C. Blackman
  • “Women Like a Beating” by H. Vernor Dixon
  • “The Had-Been” by Richard Sherman
  • “Johnny Comes Marching Home” by Jerome Weidman
  • “Souvenir” — Storiette by Constance Wagner
  • “Time to Kill” — Vignette by Lawrence G. Blochman

    • ARTICLES:

  • Toughest Job in the War by Gordon Gaskill
  • What We Are Fighting For by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Hot Spot for Heroes
  • Waste–The Enemy at Home by Senator Harry F. Byrd
  • How to Get a Commission by Major General James A. Ulio
  • A Man With Wings by Clarence Woodbury
  • A City Gets a New Job by Jerome Beatty

    • FEATURES:

  • Interesting People
  • Along the Way
  • Have You Got What It Takes?
  • Why Don’t They?
  • It Happened Overnight
  • Signs of the Times
  • It’s the Law!
  • Johnny On the Spot
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Minutemen
  • Life’s Little Temptations

    • 1949-06 American Magazine Contents

    1949/06 — Cover is a painting by Scott Evans

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

    NOVELS:

  • “The Lost Diplomat” by Oscar Schisgall and illustrated by Vincent Guise
  • “Door to Death” — A Nero Wolfe Mystery — by Rex Stout with illustration by Thornton Utz

    • STORIES:

  • “Fisherman’s Blonde” by Ernest K. Gann and illustrated by Gwen Fremlin
  • “Play It Smart” — Short Short Story by James Robert with illustration by Michael
  • “Nine O’Clock Rebellion by Mabel Brown Farwell and illustrated by Wesley Snyder
  • “A Diamond for Eadie” by Eve Burkhardt and illustrated by Milton Wolsky
  • “The Long Shot” by John M. Cunningham and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “This Is Our Night” by Florence Jane Soman
  • “On the Carpet” — Vignette by Ted Thompson
  • “He Couldn’t Say No” by Willard H. Temple and illustrated by F. Scott Wood
  • “Oh, Mother!” — Storiette by Dick Pearce

    • ARTICLES:

  • Americans Are Lucky by Charles Erwin Wilson
  • We Can’t Thrive on Security by U.S. Senator Kenneth S. Wherry and illustrated by Willard Mullin
  • Grandmother’s Got Your Number by Murray Teigh Bloom
  • The Circus Goes to College by Wayne Amos
  • God’s Salesman by Clarence Woodbury
  • What Would $100,000 Do to You? by Roy Barclay Hodges about Montgomery Clift
  • Women Should Be Drafted by U.S. Representative Frances P. Bolton
  • I Ran for Office–and Got Elected by Jerome Beatty
  • Two Little Words–Miniature by John Golden
  • Ripsnorting News by Don Eddy

    • FEATURES:

  • Interesting People
  • By the Way
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