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Esquire [v24 #3, #142, September 1945] ed. Arnold Gingrich (50¢, 176pp, 10" x 13", cover by Shermund) (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 31 · Saved: One Life · Sidney Carroll · ar 32 · Irongut and the Brown Mouse · Gerald Kersh · ss London Calling May 16-22 1943 34 · The Biggest Game Fish Ever Landed · Zane Grey · ar 37 · Sleepytime Gal · Phil Stack · pm; illustrated by Varga 39 · A Meeting of Minds · George Milburn · ss 41 · The Dream and the Awakening · Chester Morrison · vi 42 · This Man’s World · Paul Gallico · cl 46 · Old Man Mischief · David Davidson & Henry Hofmeister · ss 51 · George and the Apes · Dean Jennings · ar 57 · Gunsmith to America · Keith Barrette · ar 63 · The Hot Angel · Robert Fontaine · ss 64 · Bloody Murder on the Networks · John Roeburt · ar 66 · How to Play Knock Poker · Richard L. Frey · ar 69 · Sir Grane and the Monster · Martin Dibner · ss 72 · One Will Stand · Peter Mankowski · ss 75 · Texas Night Train · Milton Mazer · ss 76 · Footsteps in the Alfalfa · Feike Feikema · ss; illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton 87 · Frances and the Golden Brew [Frances the Talking Mule] · Peter Stirling · ss 88 · A Boy and His Horse · J. Frank Dobie · ar 90 · Men Walk Alone · Jim Kjelgaard · ss 92 · Harley to Horvath · Ralph Cannon · ar

Esquire [v24 #4, #143, October 1945] ed. Arnold Gingrich (50¢, 10" x 13") (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 39 · Air Careers for the Yanks · Gus Larson · ar 40 · The Devil That Troubled the Chessboard · Gerald Kersh · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jan 11 1936 45 · Mum’s the Word · Phil Stack · pm; illustrated by Varga 50 · This Man’s World · Paul Gallico · cl 54 · This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise · J. D. Salinger · ss 60 · The Shiny Red Top · Heath Thomas · ss 62 · They’re Just Wilder ’Bout Billy · Dean Jennings · ar [Billy Wilder] 65 · Mr. Ducrot, Right Half · Ralph Cannon · ar 68 · The Killing · Norman Katkov · ss 74 · Smart Dogs and Scientists · Ray P. Holland · ar 78 · The Boxers of M. Voltaire · Sinclair Lewis · ar 96 · Six Tortillas · John Abney · ss 101 · The Fight Game in Staten Island · Tom Ferris · ss

Esquire [v24 #5, #144, November 1945] ed. David A. Smart (Esquire, Inc., 50¢, 216pp, 10" x 13¼") (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 40 · Dear Old Ghost of Mine · MacKinlay Kantor · ar 45 · Model Life · Phil Stack · pm; illustrated by Varga 48 · The Artist and the Waiter · Ira J. Wallach · ss 54 · Always Another · Heath Thomas · ss 60 · Ten Old Tigers · Gerald Kersh · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jul 3 1942 66 · My Own, My Native Land · Jack M. MacDonald · ss 72 · Flame Below Katahdin · Robert Gold · ss 90 · Conversation Behind Closed Doors · Sidney Carroll · ss 98 · The Island Sanctuary · Holloway Horn · ss Britannia and Eve Aug 1945 108 · The Demon Angler · Mervyn Wall · ss

Esquire [v24 #6, #145, December 1945] ed. David A. Smart (Esquire, Inc., 50¢, 328pp, 10" x 13¼", cover by Sheila Beckett) (Full Text) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 65 · The Role of Myrrhine · André Maurois · ss 69 · Christmas Tidings · Phil Stack · pm; illustrated by Varga 72 · The Beggar’s Stone · Gerald Kersh · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jun 20 1941, as “The Stone” 77 · Tadeuz and the New Year · George Victor Martin · ss 82 · Bargaining for the Hapsburgs · Victor Polzer · ss 90 · Snow Over Millinocket · Robert Gold · ss 115 · Quick Curtain at Drury Lane · Douglas Ainslie · ss 116 · The One with Hands · Paul Annixter · ss 128 · Crime and Poetry · Peter Helmers · ss 151 · A Lesson in Siwash · Dan Cushman · ss 154 · The Maternal Instinct · Maurice Baudin, Jr. · ss

Esquire [v25 #1, #146, January 1946] ed. David A. Smart (50¢, 240pp, 10" x 13") (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 47 · Remembering Combat Cheer · Capt. Ladislaw Reday · ar 48 · The Lord Giveth... · Alex Drinkwater · ss 50 · Three German Masters · Klaus Mann · ar 55 · Miss January, Nineteen Forty-Six! · Phil Stack · pm; illustrated by Varga 59 · Nothing Ever Happens · Robert W. B. Lowe · ss 65 · I’m the Star · George Jessel · ss 67 · Sacred to the Memory · Gerald Kersh · vi 70 · “All Hands Lay Aft” · Lieut. Comdr. Joseph E. Shaner · pm 77 · Homecoming Hero · Sidney Carroll · ar 78 · Here’s to Grammar · Stanley Walker · ar 89 · Christmas in Contention · Parke Cummings · vi 90 · Opening in Algiers · Joseph Wechsberg · ar 92 · My Life with Ingrid · Jack Moffitt · ar [Ingrid Bergman] 96 · Arterial Arthur’s Round Table · Melvin Durslag · ss 98 · Harriton, Ex-Picassoid · Harry Salpeter · ar [Abraham Harriton] 101 · Good-bye to the Second Platoon · Elijah L. Jacobs · vi 102 · Sunday in the Suburbs · R. H. Newman · ss 108 · Passenger to Liverpool · Denys Val Baker · ss Selected Stories, Staples 1944 113 · Meeting at the Fair · Tom Hanlin · ss 120 · The Something in a Colored Man · Chester B. Himes · ss

Esquire [v25 #2, #147, February 1946] ed. David A. Smart (50¢, 10" x 13") (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 31 · The Fabulous Plan of Phineas Flutterbutt · Bertram B. Fowler · ss 32 · Poor Man’s Impresario · Paul Gould · ar 37 · Saints Be Praised · Phil Stack · pm; illustrated by Varga 39 · Two Gentlemen of Bucharest · Gerald Kersh · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Mar 13 1942 45 · How I Won My Psychosis · Robert Pierron · ss 46 · Pretty Pictures for Tooey · MacKinlay Kantor · ar 51 · Chicago Jazz History · Paul Eduard Miller & George Hoefer · ar 60 · Jazz for the Layman · Paul Eduard Miller · ar 64 · Dancing American · Charles Edward Smith · ar 67 · Still Was the Day · Heath Thomas · ss 74 · Surprise at the Outpost · Georges Surdez · ss 80 · Search for the Fire Bird · Paul Annixter · ss 83 · Apostolic Mike · Stewart Edward White · ss 84 · The Rise and Fall of Mrs. Bergman’s Back · Francis Fox Brown · ss 86 · Artist of Integrity · Harry Salpeter · ar [Philip Reisman] 89 · Ordeal of a Pollywog · Charles Kaufman · ss 98 · I Insisted Hanging Was Too Gentle a Fate · David Friedman · ss

Esquire [v25 #3, #148, March 1946] ed. David A. Smart (50¢, 10" x 13") (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 37 · A Dog’s Best Friend · Hubbell Robinson · ar 38 · The Russian Character · Alexis Tolstoï · ss 48 · The God of the Winged Worm · Gerald Kersh · ss 52 · Everything but the Truth · Mitchell Dawson · ar 58 · Tale for Rich Children · Claude Aveline · ss 60 · Portrait of a Texan · Stanley Walker · ar 64 · The Black Duty · Harry Glick · ss 72 · Your Bath Is Ready · Neill C. Wilson · ar 76 · The Wild Stallion · Jack Tooker · ss 81 · The Castillo Is Lighted · P. Fent Ross · ss 88 · A Nose for Flaws · Richard Howells Watkins · ss 92 · How’s Your Fashion Quotient? · O. E. Schoeffler · ar 94 · Thy Will Be Done · Gavin Gorman · ss 99 · Austin Honey and the Buzzards · Paul Green · ss 106 · The Brains Behind the Bars · George Fitzgerald · ar

Esquire [v25 #4, #149, April 1946] ed. David A. Smart (50¢, 230pp, 10" x 13", cover by J. Frederick Smith) (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 48 · Hoofbeats in Crimea · Aleko Lilius · ss 56 · Speech to the Heroes · Laszlo Dormandi · ss 58 · Murder Is a Fine Art · Dean Jennings · ar [James P. Watson] 61 · The Frenchman Who Understood Women · Gerald Kersh · ss 62 · Back to Utopia · Jack Moffitt · mr 67 · Chocolate and Chewing Gum · Joseph E. Shaner · vi 70 · The Kilroy Story · David Scheyer · ar 76 · Gala by the Waldorf · George & Helen Papashvily · ss 82 · No Turning Back · Egbert N. Bower · ss 84 · Horses Never Cheat · Irwin Stark & George Winston · ar 86 · Science, War and Vannevar Bush · Henry F. Pringle · ar 88 · Sunday Afternoon · Irving Townsend · ss 93 · ’Round and ’Round the Mulberry Bush · Anthony Dunn · ss 109 · The Japs and the King’s White Swan · Paul Engle · ar 110 · The Courtship of Pee-wee Joe · S. Robert Russell · ss 115 · The Mine That Laughed · Will F. Jenkins · ss

Esquire [v25 #5, #150, May 1946] ed. David A. Smart (50¢, 228pp, 10" x 13", cover by Howard Baer) (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 54 · The Breath of Fear · Laszlo Dormandi · ss 56 · Thoughts on Heaven and Hollywood · Jack Moffitt · mr 62 · Never Another Word · Henry Seaton · ss 66 · We Live in Fame · George W. Thorpe · ss 73 · Train to Blois · Thomas L. Stix · ss 77 · Leon the Winchman · Robert P. Hansen · ss 78 · Inside Baseball · Hugh Fullerton, Sr. · ar 83 · Your Name in the Papers · E. Ralph Rundell · ss 84 · A Night at County · George Wiswell · ss 86 · A Great Town for Characters · William March · ss 92 · La Fiesta Brava · Barnaby Conrad, Jr. · ar 96 · The White Horse · F. L. Owen · ss 111 · The Gay Evening · Ernst Leaman · ss

Esquire [v25 #6, #151, June 1946] ed. David A. Smart (50¢, 10" x 13", cover by B. Shermund) (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 45 · Just Fifteen Minutes More, Please · Leland Stowe · ss 55 · The High Road · Ernest Lehman · ss 58 · I Love the Girl in the Goldfish Bowl · Leonard Silk · ss 62 · General Saito’s Last Order · Merle Follin · ss 64 · The Postman Rings Four Times · Jack Moffitt · mr 67 · The Butterfly Kite · Douglas R. Angus · ss 71 · A Group of Paintings · George Bellows · il (r) 73 · Gulls in the Mountains · Joseph E. Shaner · ss 76 · Trout Tackle for Bass · Harry Botsford · ar 79 · A Mission for Eddie · Maynard Kniskern · ss 80 · The Ludicrous Luftwaffe · Kent Sagendorph · ar 82 · Man in Space · Nigel Balchin · ss 86 · The Truth Shall Prevail · Heath Thomas · ss 91 · I’ll Take the City · J. Andrew White · ar 93 · Onions Bring Tears · Philip Reynolds · ss 95 · Luck of Robert Casey · Alan Hynd · ar 96 · A Lesson in the Manly Art · Mel Matison · ss 101 · Monkey Hunt in Cochinchina · Tao Kim Hai · ss 127 · Arizona Episode · Donald Barr Chidsey · vi 135 · Father Was an Author · W. Stanley Hoole · vi 138 · Little Man · J. Edgar Grove · vi 143 · Was It Cornavackia? · Jud Terry, Jr. · vi 146 · Cheating the Wheel · Karin Armitage · vi 151 · They Were So Happy · Bernard Glemser · ss

Esquire [v26 #1, #152, July 1946] ed. David A. Smart (50¢, 10" x 13", cover by Howard Baer) (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 39 · High Time in Hungary · Arnold Gingrich · ar 40 · The Case of Captain Thompson · Joseph Emerson Newton · ss 42 · The Casbah: A Witch’s Brew · Bert Hicks · ar 48 · As True as I’m Standing Here · Robert Fontaine · ss 50 · Philadelphia Pepper Plot · Jack Moffitt · mr 53 · Money Makes the Mare Go · Walter Steigleman · ar 63 · Gertrude, Alas, Alas · Elliot Paul · ar [Gertrude Stein] 63 · American Beauty: Jane Russell · Tom Kelley · pi 66 · The Last Ride of Don Porfirio · George Slocombe · ss 71 · The Lost Numbers · Heath Thomas · ss 77 · God’s Close Friend · Laszlo Dormandi · ss 78 · How to Make a Movie on Nothing · Irving Wallace · ar 80 · A Swim a Sunset · Homer R. Levinson · ss 84 · No End to Anything · Robert Switzer · ss 90 · The Fearless Buck · E. Ralph Rundell · ss 92 · Sirens Under Sail · Ira Henry Freeman · ar 104 · How Many Zeds in Jazz · Vick Knight · ar

Esquire [v26 #2, #153, August 1946] ed. David A. Smart (50¢, 10" x 13", cover by D. McKay) (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 27 · The Emperor’s Smile · Joseph Wechsberg · ss 28 · Without Identity · Robert Key · ss 37 · Win, Place and Show · Walter Steigleman · ar 43 · Stratford on Arkansas · Jack Moffitt · mr 47 · American Beauty: Arlene Dahl · Jon Abbot · pi 49 · Happy Hangover · Ernest Lehman · ss 50 · Some Talk of Virtue · James Francis Dwyer · ss 61 · And Now Delilah · Neil Paterson · ss 64 · Weary Gray Wolf · Stanley Walker · ar [Frank A. Munsey] 68 · The Flying Head · Tao Kim Hai · ss 73 · Hello, Saroyan Bill · David Yellin · ss 74 · Single Shots and Consequences · Tommy Armour · ar 89 · A Gun for Atluk · Allan R. Bosworth · ss 90 · The Diligent Duke of Ellington · Harry Hess · ar [Duke Ellington] 114 · Saturday Night · Robert Switzer · ss

Esquire [v26 #3, #154, September 1946] ed. David A. Smart (50¢, 10" x 13") (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 48 · Mere Man Looks at Heroines · Jack Moffitt · mr 51 · Play Two for Me · Walter Steigleman · ar; illustrated by Gustav Rehberger 57 · No Petty Thief · Jesse Stuart · ss 71 · Voodoo, Shango and the Black Arts · Bert Hicks · ar 72 · Sam Sea Gull’s Last Flight · Joseph E. Shaner · ss 89 · The Greeks Have a Taste for It · Paul Wilder · ar 90 · Now and at the Hour · Peter Gray · ss 101 · Dude Guide’s Lament · Russell Annabel · ar; illustrated by Gustav Rehberger 104 · The Match King · J. B. Rosenthal · ar 106 · A Party for Grodnik · Henry Gort · ss The Ruined Wall · Gerald Kersh · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Aug 14 1942 The Salon of M. Aristide · Louis Simpson · ss The Best Fireman in New York · David Frjédman · ss Shanghai-ri-la · George W. Morse · ss The Devil Has a Certain Hand · Gordon Fletcher · ss A Break for Charlie · Curtis Billinga · ss The Highwayman · Alfred Noyes · pm Blackwood’s Magazine Aug 1906

Esquire [v26 #4, #155, October 1946] ed. David A. Smart (50¢, 10" x 13", cover by Eldon Dedini) (Full Text) Listing fiction, poetry, and selected articles. 65 · The Three Sisters · Heltai Jenö · ss 69 · The Ghost of Impeti · Sidney Carroll · ss 70 · The Tempo of Death · Frank Veloz · ss 72 · Harvard’s Hooton · Jack Stenbuck · ar 75 · Prosperity Breaks the Mare’s Back · Walter Steigleman · ar 81 · This Year—It’s The Yearling · Jack Moffitt · mr 82 · The Ordeal of Homer Bigelow · Robert Lewis Taylor · ss 88 · A Place of Promise · George W. Morse · ss 90 · Triumph of a Realist · Donald A. Allan · ss; illustrated by Gustav Rehberger 93 · Boswell of Baseball · Milt Woodard · ar 101 · Doctor and Judge · Horace Hoffer · ss 105 · The Horse on the Escalator · Martin Gardner · ss 111 · Pennsylvanians Never Surrender · Tommy O’Shane · ss 120 · Let’s Rodeo, Cowboy · Glenn E. Bunnell · ar 123 · Lives of Quiet Desperation · Asher Gerecht · ss 124 · A Waltz in Leather · James R. Hartman · ss 129 · Postgraduate Stuff · Harry Hess · ar 132 · Defender of the Weak · John Scott Renwick · ss