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The American Magazine [v143 #4, April 1947] ed. Sumner Blossom (The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., 25¢, quarto) Details supplied by Rob Preston from Table of Contents. fc. · [photo] · Hesse-Patston · cv 4 · Letters to the Editor · [The Readers] · lc 11 · Why Don’t They? · [Misc.] · cl 13 · The Food Front · [Misc.] · cl 14 · Can You Hear Me? · Jerome Beatty · ar 21 · Now They’ve Done It · [Misc.] · cl 23 · Hello Alaska · Morton Sontheimer · ar 24 · Her Very Sly Young Man · Ray & Agnes Nafziger · ss 26 · Big Business Is Good Business · A. W. Robertson · ar 28 · Scattergood and the City Slicker [Scattergood Baines] · Clarence Budington Kelland · ss 30 · The Way You Look to Me · Luther Reed · ss 32 · Smugglers’ Paradise · Gordon Gaskill · ar 34 · “I Knew Him When...” · Morley Callaghan · ss 36 · Aunt Kate’s Big Boy · Jack Long · ar 38 · Masterpiece · Betty Baur · ss 40 · Transparent Trousers · Baird Hall · ss 44 · How Will You Have Your Weather? · Frederick G. Brownell · ar 46 · Landfall · Dale Clark · vi 48 · Blooming Wallflower · Milton Gross · ar 50 · The Birthday Present · Terry Morris · ss 52 · When the Hepcats Are Away · Albert A. Brandt · ar 54 · Dangerous Heritage · Rita Weiman · na 56 · Innocent? · Vance Packard · vi 60 · Sour Note · Gene Autry · ar 65 · Twenty Stickeroos · [Misc.] · cl 75 · It’s the Law! · [Misc.] · ct 78 · Signs of the Times · [Misc.] · cl 118 · By the Way · [Misc.] · cl 120 · Count Ten · [Misc.] · ct 133 · Interesting People · Anon. · cl 157 · Before I Die [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na 164 · Forever Romeo · Samuel W. Taylor · vi

The American Magazine [v143 #5, May 1947] ed. Sumner Blossom (Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 25¢, quarto) Details supplied by Rob Preston from Table of Contents. fc. · [photo] · Victor Keppler · cv 4 · Letters to the Editor · [The Readers] · lc 11 · Why Don’t They? · [Misc.] · cl 13 · Food Front · [Misc.] · cl 14 · Japan Goes American · Arthur Behrstock · ar 21 · Now They’ve Done It · [Misc.] · cl 23 · Too Many Jobholders · Frederick G. Brownell · ar 24 · Just Be Grateful · Frances Malm · ss 26 · The Most Pampered Guy on Earth · J. B. Griswold · ar 28 · Beware of Blonds · Horatio Winslow · vi 30 · Freshwater Mermaid · Baird Hall · ss 32 · G-Men of the Race Tracks · Spencer J. Drayton · ar 34 · Let’s Not Get Involved · Willard H. Temple · ss 36 · —And the Angels Sing · Jerome Beatty · ar 38 · What Does Labor Really Want? · J. D. Zellerbach · ar 40 · Spotlight · Newlin Wildes · ss 44 · It’s No Fun to Be a Millionaire · Albert A. Light · ar 46 · Hoodlum Street · Don Tracy · ss 49 · Opening the Lobby Door · Irwin Ross · ar 50 · Girl without Flowers · Leonard L. Hess · ss 52 · Their War Is Never Over · Jack Long · ar 54 · Hour of Destiny · Jean Z. Owen · na 56 · Dumb Kid · James Robert · vi 61 · Are You a Hothead? · [Misc.] · ms 72 · It’s the Law · [Misc.] · ct 76 · I Knew Kilroy · Cal Tinney · ar 84 · Little White Lie · Robert Stuart · vi 106 · By the Way · [Misc.] · cl 118 · Count Ten · [Misc.] · ct 125 · Interesting People · Anon. · cl 151 · King of the Beggars · Leslie Charteris (with Henry Kuttner) · na; adapted from the script of the episode broadcast in the NBC radio series on 17th March 1945.

The American Magazine [v143 #5-A, Vacation 1947] ed. Sumner Blossom (The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 25¢, quarto) Details supplied by Rob Preston from Table of Contents. fc. · [photo] · Victor Keppler · cv 4 · Letters to the Editor · [The Readers] · lc 11 · Why Don’t They? · [Misc.] · cl 13 · The Food Front · [Misc.] · cl 14 · Social Security Pays Off · Clarence Woodbury · ar 16 · Now They’ve Done It · [Misc.] · cl 21 · This Restless New World · John Hays Hammond, Jr. · ar 24 · Three Weeks in Summer · Robert Thomsen & George Bradshaw · ss 26 · What Good Is a College Degree? · Henry M. Wriston · ar 28 · Anti-Cupid · Edith Krotinger · ss 30 · Some Like It Hot...Some Like It Cold · Peter Broulliet · ar 32 · Vacations—American Plan · Tom Bernard · ar 34 · Don’t Forget to Write · Enid Griffis · vi 36 · The Jilting · Irene Cleaton · ss 38 · Are You a Water Sissy? · Frank E. Dalton · ar 40 · Fallen Favorite · Douglas Preece · ss 44 · Mean and Lovely · Jack Long · ar 46 · Kife Can Be Gruesome · Francis Warlow · ss 48 · Little Missus—Big Fishes · Raymond R. Camp · ar 50 · Beginning of a Journey · Frances Malm · ss 52 · A Hairdresser Tells...What I’ve Learned About Women · Victor Vito · ar 54 · Give Love the Air · Faith Baldwin · na 56 · In the Stars · Henry Legler · vi 60 · Hats with a Soul · Jerome Brondfield · vi 68 · It’s the Law · [Misc.] · ct 73 · Jumpy · Ray Milland · ar 80 · By the Way · [Misc.] · cl 86 · Where Are They Going? · [Misc.] · cl 103 · Count Ten · [Misc.] · ct 113 · Interesting People · Anon. · cl 143 · Chinese Nightmare · Hugh Pentecost · na

The American Magazine [v143 #6, June 1947] (25¢, quarto) Details supplied by Rob Preston from Table of Contents. 24 · Late Blooming · Belva Plain · ss 28 · Just in Case · Eddie Forester · ss 30 · A Mouse Named Mary · Dwight Hutchison · ss 34 · First Miracle · James Aswell · ss 40 · Ticket to Heaven · Victoria Case · ss 46 · There Goes My Dream · Dorothy James Roberts · ss 50 · This Time It’s Real · Maurice Baudin, Jr. · ss 54 · Unfinished Marriage · Frederick Nebel · na 78 · No Excuse · Joy Nicholson · vi 147 · Speak No Evil [Kent Murdock] · George Harmon Coxe · nv 158 · Gold Fever · Oscar Schisgall · ss

The American Magazine [v144 #1, July 1947] Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents Murder in Black and White · Anne Wormser & Jess Oppenheimer · na

The American Magazine [v144 #2, August 1947] ed. Sumner Blossom (The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., 25¢, quarto) Details supplied by Rob Preston from Table of Contents. fc. · [photo] · Victor Keppler · cv 4 · Letters to the Editor · [The Readers] · lc 11 · Why Don’t They? · [Misc.] · cl 13 · The Food Front · [Misc.] · cl 14 · Now They’ve Done It · [Misc.] · cl 16 · Labor’s Needle Man · Irwin Ross · ar 21 · Let’s Have a Showdown with Russia · Charles A. Eaton · ar 22 · The Right to Walk Alone · Czenzi Ormonde · ss 24 · Our Guardians of the Atom · Sidney Shalett · ar 26 · The Bride Regrets · Josephine Pearson · ss 28 · Life Among the Rockets · Don Eddy · ar 30 · Silly Monster · Willard H. Temple · ss 34 · The Nisei Discover America · Bradford Smith · ar 36 · Razz-Ma-Tazz · D. H. Johnson · ss 38 · Scattergood and the Women’s Rebellion [Scattergood Baines] · Clarence Budington Kelland · ss 40 · Color Chases the Blues · Clarence Woodbury · ar 42 · A Night to Remember · Isabel Moore · vi 44 · For Women Only · Maxine Churchill · ar 46 · Golden Wife · Eustace L. Adams · ss 48 · Circus Town · Chet Vonier · ar 50 · Angie Lee’s Fortune · Thyra Samter Winslow · ss 52 · Debt od Dishonor · Frances Malm · na 54 · “They Say” · Helen Worden · vi 58 · It’s the Law! · [Misc.] · ct 66 · T-sers · [Misc.] · cl 74 · History Repeats · Evelyn · ar 86 · White Sails in Kansas · James Gordon · ar 94 · Grandma’s a Cowpuncher · Lawrence Cardwell · ar 104 · Count Ten · [Misc.] · ct 109 · Interesting People · Anon. · cl 140 · By the Way · [Misc.] · cl 145 · The Case of the Crying Swallow [Perry Mason] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na 150 · Whistle Bait · Roy Barclay Hodges · vi

The American Magazine [v144 #3, September 1947] (The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company; New York, 25¢, 160pp, quarto, cover by Barbara Schwinn) Details taken from eBay listing. If I Were Seventeen · Helen Douglas · ss Emmalina and the Lovers · Helen Cotton · ss When You Go Marketing · Jerome Beatty · ss The Return of Herbert Hoover · Sidney Shalett · ar High Queen · Don Tracy · ss Is Prohibition Coming Back? · Frederick G. Brownell · ar The Latecomer · Anne Homer Warner · ss The Unfurnished Heart · Elizabeth Dunn · ss The Hanging Gardens of Manhattan · Edwin T. Connell · ar Strictly for Laughs · Russell Maloney · ss Polish Up Your Boss · [Misc.] · ms Princess · Dorothy James Roberts · ss Revenge Is Expensive: Rehabilitating Germany & Japan · Clifford S. Strike · ar Pardon My Prisoner · Luther Reed · ss College for Chorines: Chorus Girls · James Gordon · ar The Negligee · Joseph Viertel · ss Interesting People: H. L. Mencken, Joseph A. Woodson, Hazel Brooks, Seymour P. Rosow, Ernest Ghyssaert, Pierre Belasco, Bryan Hannon · Anon. · cl The Black Cross · Donald Hamilton · na

The American Magazine [v144 #4, October 1947] Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents The Cassandra Club [Jeff Larigan; Alan Quist] · Hugh Pentecost · na

The American Magazine [v144 #5, November 1947] (Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., 25¢, 164pp+, quarto, cover by Thornton Utz) Details supplied by Ira Matetsky. 4 · By the Way · R. B. H. · cl 6 · Letters to the Editor · [The Readers] · lc 9 · Strip Please · Walter Pidgeon · mm 12 · Food Front · Priscilla Jaquith · cl 14 · Why Don’t They... · [The Readers] · cl 16 · Now They’ve Done It · Lawrence N. Galton · cl 21 · Opportunity Unlimited... · Charles Luckman · ar 22 · I’ve Come for You · Dorothea Malm · ss 24 · As the Arabs See the Jews · King Abdullah · ar 26 · A Bad One for an Enemy · Will F. Jenkins · ss 28 · Taie My Advice · Isabel Campbell · ss 30 · Why It Costs Less to Live in Canada · Eric Gwyn · ar 32 · Charlie’s Busy Stepmother · D. W. Perkins · ar [Edgar Bergen; Frances Bergen] 34 · Fading Star · James Robert · vi; illustrated by George Hughes 36 · They Like Ike · Vance Packard · ar [Dwight D. Eisenhower] 38 · Portrait of Mary · Anita Rowe Block · ss 42 · April in November · Frederick G. Brownell · ar 44 · Thirty-Year Man · Hal G. Evarts · ss 46 · I’m a Pigeon at Golf · Adolphe Menjou · ar 48 · One of Those Days · Roma Rose · ss 50 · Post Office Ahoy! · James Gordon · ar 52 · Assault on the Heart · Mona Williams · na 56 · Barnstorming with Beethoven · Jack Long · ar [Dimitri Mitropolous] 58 · A Touch of Magic · Marie Read Smith · ss 64 · It’s the Law! · Dick Hyman · cl; illustrated by O. Soglow 70 · Check That Impulse! · Louis Priscilla · ct 82 · What’s in a Name · [The Readers] · ms 105 · America’s Interesting People · Anon. · cl [Guy B. Panero; Charles A. Kenny; Ezio Pinza; Martin K. Tytell; Evelyn Keyes; Effie Morrison; William P. Willetts; Joseph P. Willetts; John Hyldoft; Larry Moore; Franklin M. Kreml; John Zolezzi] 146 · Straight, Place and Show · Roger Garis · na 154 · In Reply... · Carl D. Halbak · vi

The American Magazine [v144 #6, December 1947] (Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., 25¢, 160pp+, quarto, cover by Pat Holbrooke) Details supplied by Ira B. Matetsky. 22 · The Silver Tree · Mona Williams · ss 26 · Miss Plain Jane · H. Vernor Dixon · ss 32 · The Shivaree · Alice Maxwell · ss 36 · Don’t Look Now · Edgar Brooke · ss 38 · Yesterday’s Magic · Jean Dupont Miller · ss 44 · The Knife · Sewell Peaslee Wright · ss 48 · Thank You, Mark Caldwell · Joseph Hayes · ss 52 · Retreat from Love · Alec Rackowe · nv 58 · Bingo! · Jeff Conover · vi 136 · Big Day · Alice Richardson · vi 146 · Man Alive [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na

The American Magazine [v145 #1, January 1948] (25¢, quarto) Details taken from eBay listing. The Hollow Needle · George Harmon Coxe · na Dangerous Freedom · J. Edgar Hoover · ar Star Bright · Rosemary Casey · ss; illustrated by A. Freudeman Ever See a Purple Lamb? · Esther Dorothy · ss What We Have Done for the Russians · Jerome Beatty · ar Pickup · Richard Carlson · ss; illustrated by Harry Fredman Shadow of Indigo · Norbert Fagan · ss; illustrated by Edwin Georgi Tough Man for Defense: James Vincent Forrestal · Sidney Shalett · ar Big Girl Big Dreams · Isabella Taves · ss; illustrated by Robert Patterson Dancing Death · Kelley Roos · na Where You Pay Less Income Tax · John L. McClellan · ar Lazy Lady · Julien Field · ss; illustrated by Lonie Bee Looks That Men Like · Henry A. Bowman & Prisscilla Scott · ar Scattergood Pulls the Strings [Scattergood Baines] · Clarence Budington Kelland · ss; illustrated by Earl Cordrey Stop Getting Excited: Avoid High Blood Pressure · Peter J. Steincrohn · ar This Is Wendy Bain · Frances Minturn Howard · ss; illustrated by Harry Fredman Radio’s Handiest Man: Ben Grauer · Clarence Woodbury · ar Flight Into Spring · Bianca Bradbury · ss; illustrated by John Alan Maxwell Disaster Is My Business · Henry Traphagen · ar Farm Boys Strike It Rich · [Misc.] · ms Which Mrs. Torr · Maude Parker · ss; illustrated by Andrew Loomis Interesting People: Dr. Harlan True Stetson, Miss Syril Kay Norma Shearer · Anon. · cl Revolution on the River · Stanley H. Kapner · ss

The American Magazine [v145 #3, March 1948] ed. Sumner Blossom (The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., 25¢, 160pp+, quarto, cover by Tom Hall) Details supplied by Ira Matetsky. 2 · Picture of the Month · Anon. · mr 4 · By the Way · R. B. H. · cl 6 · Letters to the Editor · [The Readers] · lc 12 · Food Front · Priscilla Jaquith · cl 14 · Why Don’t They...? · [The Readers] · cl 14 · [cartoon] · Jeff Keate · ct 16 · Now They’ve Done It · Lawrence N. Galton · cl 19 · Sightless · Robert Montgomery · ar 21 · It Pays to Be Huan · Jerome Gross · ar 22 · The Heavy Stone · Jessamyn West · ss; illustrated by Walter M. Baumhofer 24 · Hitler’s Experts Work for Us · Harry F. Byrd · ar 26 · Tailspin · William Porter · ss; illustrated by Fredric Varady 28 · Bring on the Lions · Mort M. Horowitz · ss; illustrated by Robert Patterson 30 · ERP—What It Will Cost You · Styles Bridges · ar 32 · Fashions in Feed Bags · D. W. Perkins · ar 34 · There Comes a Time · Lewis Nichols · ss; illustrated by Thornton Utz 36 · We Adopt a Baby · Jane Carrington Martin · ar 38 · Let Me Alone! · William A. Krauss · ss; illustrated by C. George Garland 42 · How to Throw a Party · Sherman Billingsley · ar 44 · Will Television Steal the Show? · Ed James · ar 46 · Don’t Be Funny, Dear · Pan T. Kaye · vi; illustrated by W. C. Griffith 48 · Whatever Became of Victoria · William L. Worden · ss; illustrated by Perry Peterson 50 · They Give You Fits · Edward U. Condon · ar 52 · Strong with the Women · Margaret Culkin Banning · nv; illustrated by Thornton Utz 56 · Heartbreak Hangout · James Gordon · ar 58 · Ladies’ Man · William E. Barrett · vi 62 · [cartoon] · Al Ross · ct 66 · [cartoon] · Morley Burteen · ct 68 · Her Man Herman · Robert L. Hughes · vi 72 · Shutterbug · Gregory d’Alessio · ct 74 · Life’s Little Problems · Arthur Lansing · cl 78 · Check That Impulse! · Louis Priscilla · ct 80 · It’s the Law! · Dick Hyman · cl; illustrated by O. Soglow 82 · [cartoon] · Dallas Rose · ct 84 · [cartoon] · Gavne · ct 90 · 14 Firsts · Dr. Charles F. McKivergan · qz 94 · [cartoon] · Gene Carr · ct 104 · [cartoon] · Dallas Rose · ct 107 · [cartoon] · Gene Carr · ct 109 · Interesting People · Anon. · cl [John F. Moran; Dr. Ariel Millais; Coleen Gray; Hazel Zimmerman; Romayne Potosky; Norman Potosky; Bunny Kerman; David Kerman; Jesus Maria Sanroma; Marge Riley; E. M. Hosman; Pearle McCullough; Dr. George Valley] 128 · What’s in a Name? · [Various] · ms 134 · Sweet Scents · Roy Barclay Hodges · ms 137 · [cartoon] · Walter Goldstein · ct 140 · [cartoon] · James Mack · ct 144 · Family Money · Mary Berkeley Finke & Helen Knox · cl 146 · Deadly Festival · Phoebe Atwood Taylor · na; illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs 154 · [cartoon] · Gerald Green · ct 158 · [cartoon] · Gayne · ct