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Issue Date: OCTOBER, 1958; VOLUME L, NO. 4, WHOLE NO. 299
IN THIS ISSUE:-
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SILVER ANNIVERSARY ISSUE, XXV! [HUGE, 318 page issue!]

[SEE PHOTOS FROM INSIDE THIS ISSUE, BELOW!]

ARTICLES:
AWAY WITH THE REALTOR ... The doghouse is for the other fellow ... FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. "His sole function seems to be to bastardize architecture and jack up housing prices, says the world's most renowned architect." [Interesting article]
DE GAULLE ON WILLKIE, F.D.R. AND IKE ... Behind the scenes with history ... General Charles De Gaulle.
THE DEATH OF JAMES DEAN ... Long lament for an alter ego ... John Dos Passos.
A CHAMPION ON CHAMPIONS ... Continued success story: Luis Angel Firpo ... Gene Tunney.
LOUSIER LOVERS THAN THE LATINS ... She's back in the act ... Helen Lawrenson.
MY TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF CENSORSHIP ... The census of preference ... Erskine Caldwell.
HOW I REMEMBER PAPA ... Memories of a man others knew as Il Duce ... Romano Mussolini.
BRIDGE TO A SAVAGE WORLD ... Background notes for a juvenile-delinquency film ... Arthur Miller.

PICTURED ESSAYS:
MODERN MODELS OF GREAT ARTISTS VISIONS OF BEAUTY ... Photographed by Bert Stern. CAROL LYNLEY: "a young wind-blown blonde beauty with the innocent fresh features of a classic Botticelli"; JILL COREY: "Seen as the sultry, sensuous, dark-haired woman of he South Seas that fascinated Gauguin.";KIM NOVAK: "Caught in chiarascuro suggestive of great 17th century Italian Painters"; DANA WYNTER: "Revealed as a typical Modigliani model with her angular, linear grace." [GREAT FULL PAGE PHOTOS of each, SEE BELOW!]
WIDOW OF MONTMARTRE --- The Paris of Mine. Fauche ... Photographed by Bruce Davidson.
THE GOLDEN DAYS OF GAMBLING - - Before Vegas ... Paintings by Leslie Saalburg.
LIVING IMAGE OF ANCIENT FLORENCE --- The more she stays the same ... Photographed by David Lees.

ONE-ACT PLAY:
A PERFECT ANALYSIS GIVEN BY A PARROT --- Interlude between wars ... Tennessee Williams.

FICTION:
THE GAME OF THE LAW --- Central section of a forthcoming novel ... Roger Vailland.
CIRCLE OF LIGHT -- - His search was for honesty of a different kind ... Irwin Shaw.

TITANS REVISITED (A Portfolio of previously unpublished writings):
MEMORIES OF FITZGERALD, LEWIS AND DREISER - -- The golden years ... George Jean Nathan.
BACKGROUND FOR AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY ... Character development ... Theodore Dreiser.
ADVICE TO A YOUNG WRITER --- Andrew Turnbull's finds in the letters of ... F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A MINNESOTA DIARY ... Mark Schorer selects a year's entries of ... Sinclair Lewis.

FEATURES:
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASSICS FOR HIPSTERS ... Four areas and ten records ... George Shearing.
THE "LOST GENERATION" OF JAZZ --- The now-great and the past-great are not so far apart ... Billy Taylor.
THE AMERICAN POET AS A BUSINESSMAN ... Making vs. production of poems ... Robert Graves.
THE CUTENESS OF WELL-BEING: THE GIFT SHOPPE --- Culture of the vulgar ... Reed Whittemore.
INDIVIDUALITY AND THE NEW LEISURE --- "Other-direction" has us ... Reuel Denney.
THE FAIREST OF FAIR GAME --- When you go hunting, you should know some rules ... Sam Locke.
THE LEOPARD IN HART CRANE'S BROW ... The poet had five years of success ... Malcolm Cowley.
THE AGE OF THE INTERCHANGEABLE MAN ... The chorus of conformity ... Robert M. Hutchins .
HITLER DID NOT DANCE THAT JIG -- - On the spot: a piece of trickery and a replica ... Laurence Stallings.
MOVIE CRITIC VS. MOVIE-MAKER ... Bosley Crowther and Otto Preminger have a session on criticism.

SUPPLEMENT: CORRIDA ... The ritual of the bull ring ... Words by Rex Smith; Etchings by John Groth.
SKETCHES BY THE AUTHORS:
SON OF IN AND OUT --- Careful: this may be your Siberia ... Robert Benton & Harvey Schmidt.
THE DELUGE --- And there was Noah, without even a drop to drink ... Jules Feiffer.
THE PROGRESS (?) OF THE INTELLECTUAL ... From beaten to beat ... Drawings by Robert Osborn.

WEARABLES:
'35, '37, '49, '53 ... Esquire had its share in accenting the years.
INTERNATIONAL SKETCHBOOK ... The clear-cut line has a flare of its own.
AN INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER REAPPRAISES THE MEN'S FASHION SCENE Ideas from ... Paul McCobb.
THE LOUNGE SUIT --- It's of silk in a muted pattern, abstract checks for the coat, hairline stripes for the slacks.
TRAVEL: RICHARD JOSEPH'S TRAVEL NOTES;ESQUIRE'S SIDE TRIP NO. 6.
DEPARTMENTS:
Publisher's Page: THE READERS WRITE.
THE SOUND AND THE FURY.
THE SLIPPED DISC.
DOROTHY PARKER ON BOOKS.
BACKSTAGE WITH ESQUIRE.
ESQUIRE ON RECORD.
VERSE: EAST RIVER ... James Matheson.
BRIEF: FARMING IS FOR FARMERS ... Alfred Tombs.
POTABLES: TWENTY-FIVE WAYS TO TOAST AN ANNIVERSARY.
EDIBLES:GOURMET ON WHEELS ... I. & L Avery.
AFTERMATH: WHY THEY CALLED HIM "YARDBIRD".


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